Indigenous Quotes: top 67 famous quotes about Indigenous

Indigenous Quotes & Sayings

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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

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine. — Brad Jensen

to be indigenous is to protect life on earth. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Our power comes from the earth — Luis Alberto Urrea

Our indigenous herbalists say to pay attention when plants come to you; they're bringing you something you need to learn. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous. — Rudolfo Anaya

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

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

Indigence is one of those states, politicians less likely wish to manage. — Ymatruz

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

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

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers? — Don King

Being an indigenous talent of the African race; — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi. Andrew — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive. — Oren Lyons

A man kills enough. A woman keeps on walking. — Marie Clements

The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that. — Tom Shadyac

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

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience. — Pat Conroy

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic. — Deborah Kara Unger

There was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis. — Margaret Atwood

Being colonized automatically makes you bipolar. — Sherman Alexie

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

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. — Nancy Pearcey

You are the first and last indigenous Nintendo. — Ben Lerner

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives. — Reverend Malcolm Boyd

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents. — Subcomandante Marcos

no empire imposed by force or otherwise has ever been without this feature: control of the indigenous by members of their own group. — Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

Indigenous people all over the world take quite a lot of trouble with their hair and their clothes. — Michelle Paver

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

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona. — Shari Sebbens

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people. — S. Kelley Harrell

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. — James F. Cooper

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

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

Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward. — Niall Ferguson

I have a dream, humans were part of aliens on earth.
I also dream, that some humans are really indigenous. — Toba Beta

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

Particular reinscription in the cinema of a discourse of the image and the look in indigenous conventions. — Anonymous

The indigenous population is not responsible ... It is the foreigners that we have to focus on. — Robert Kilroy-Silk

There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs. — Jessica Hagedorn

The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region. — Harper Lee

No one can question the talent of India's youth after the success of the Mars Mission. Everything indigenous! — Narendra Modi

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

If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine. — Kathleen Alcala

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

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are. — David Christian

I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment ... that those were ethical omnivores. — James Cromwell

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister. — Adam Giles

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

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet. — Edward James Olmos

Hush now, 'tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago. — Jan Reid

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life. — Andrew Dalby

Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru. — Q'orianka Kilcher

Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them. — Jean Zimmerman

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

Nothing should go un-noticed. — John Lundin

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere. — John Trudell

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss. — Jay Griffiths

In the case of Israel-Palestine, a one-state solution will arise only on the U.S. model: with extermination or expulsion of the indigenous population. — Noam Chomsky

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