Aboriginal Quotes

• It's a very Aboriginal thing to do, to give younger people greater responsibilities within the community as they become able to take those responsibilities on. It is a culturally appropriate transfer of roles that involves respect in both directions.. from the younger to the older and the older to the younger.

  Jackie Huggins

  Responsibility, People, Giving

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• As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.

  Ken Wyatt

  Dream, Integrity, Future

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• For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

  Patrick Dodson

  Leadership, Long, Community

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• Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

  Gough Whitlam

  Australia, People, Perspective

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• If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

  Lilla Watson

  Work, Volunteer, Community

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• We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners, in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

  Romeo LeBlanc

  Attitude, Heart, Matter

  Romeo LeBlanc's Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the 1996 Native Role Models, archive.gg.ca. February 23, 1996.

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• We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.

  Ian Cohen

  Other Cultures, Understanding, Earth

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• Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

  Oodgeroo Noonuccal

  Past, History, Poetry

  Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kath Walker (1992). “The dawn is at hand: selected poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

  Charles Darwin

  Pursue

  "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World: the Evolution".

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• So what is the Dreaming? I would say the Dreaming is a non-indigenous term used in its broadest sense to describe the stories of our ancestors and how they shaped the land and how they are still part of the land... Across Aboriginal Australia there are as many different terms for Dreaming as there are language groups

  Hetti Perkins

  Dream, Art, Land

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  The more you know the less you need to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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• It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Mean, Winning

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• The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

  Pauline Hanson

  Majority, Want, Welfare

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

  Lionel Rose

  Sports, Winning, Differences

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• The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

  Tony Abbott

  Issues, People, Suffering

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more you know the less you talk.

  A. R. Rahman

  Mlm, Tao Te Ching, Monk

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• We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know, I grew up, born on a government blanket under a palm tree. I lived under lantana bushes, I've seen more dinner times than I've seen dinners, I've known discrimination, I've known prejudice, I've known all of those things... but some of that is still with us... and it's got to be changed.

  Neville Bonner

  Change, Leadership, Fighting

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• The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

  Phillip Noyce

  Children, Kids, Unique

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• My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Art, Native American, Greatness

  Norval Morrisseau (2005). “Norval Morrisseau: Return to the House of Invention”

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• The more you know the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

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• Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Unity, Genius, Natural

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• Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."

  Bruce Chatwin

  Mother, Country, Children

  "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.

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• The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  America, Three, Coast

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.56, VM eBooks

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• There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

  Lee Maracle

  Native American, Connections, Earth

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• The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the physical, cultural, spiritual and social environments, which supported children, young people, families and the aged.

  Ken Wyatt

  Dream, Spiritual, Children

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