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