Indigenous Quotes

Indigenous Quote of the day

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

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

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

Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet

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

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

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

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

The most important thing is the script.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is how we'll generate hope - for all Canadian people.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.

Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by some Spaniards. That's why you have names like Kwan Ping Del Toro.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

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.

We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which is largely indigenous to planet earth.

The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.

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

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.

Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.

Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.