Indigenous Quotes - Page 10

• The indigenous population is not responsible [for rising HIV infection rates]. It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.

  Robert Kilroy-Silk

  Focus, Population, Responsible

  The Sunday Express, December 01, 2002.

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• We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Country, People, Overcoming

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

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• We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Healing, People, Generations

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

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• Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole.

  Wade Davis

  Spring, Men, Skills

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• Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

  Malcolm Fraser

  People, Victim, Found

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

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• It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of the earth, modest use of its riches, safeguarding the future of the generations to come, restraint and as high a degree of self-provisioning as possible - can reanimate ancient and still unrealized dreams of a secure sustenence for all.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Dream, Self, Degrees

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• The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

  Tom Shadyac

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.

  Michael Parenti

  Running, Gun, Government

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• To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.

  Arundhati Roy

  Past, Thinking, Practice

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with our territory that our protection is tied to our use and our use is tied to our protection. We use the resources on our territory to live.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Land, People, Goal

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• Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

  Franklin Foer

  Past, Important, Debate

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• As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Believe, Responsibility, America

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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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• Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

  James F. Cooper

  Ocean, Quality, Superstitions

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• Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Running, Oil, Islands

  "Top Gear", October 31, 2004.

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• Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers. ...How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Country, Father, Blessed

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• Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Character, Fruit, Weakness

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.105

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• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. Weve got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Children, Hard Work

  "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 22, 2010.

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• Let us not be tempted by those who try to find the unique qualities in a particular group. In this case, among South Africa indigenous people, it reflected what has been evidenced throughout the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Unique, People, Trying

  Source: www.mott.org

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• Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia, in the indigenous world, Alaska in particular, and in back country farm and ranch country, is a higher sense of etiquette, and more respectful manners. Urban middle class cosmopolitan world peoples of all races have become speedy and rude. This is a pretty big generalization though.

  Gary Snyder

  Country, Rude, World

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being head of state. It has reached the point that 99% of the indigenous women have not gone to school. The indigenous are condemned to live in a situation designed to exterminate them. They receive a pittance of a salary, they neither speak nor write the language, politics dictates their situation. Is this slavery? I don't know what it's called. It is not the same as before because we are in modern times.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Country, Writing, School

  Source: www.indians.org

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• Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in the Spanish of the peninsula. I think it has to do with the indigenous way of looking at nature.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Attitude, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

  Kevin Rudd

  Lying, Apology, Challenges

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• I don't close myself to the possibility of someplace outside the United States, but it would have to be someplace with an indigenous community, because that's where I feel at home.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Home, Community, United States

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's rights. International human rights law now looks at not whether or not the tribes have formal ownership or legal title in a Western legal conception might have it, but rather they look at the tribe's historical connection to that land.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Past, Historical, Recognition

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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