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Indigenous People Quotes

So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us. Derrick Jensen
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering a land already populated by indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America. Jon Stewart
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simn Bolvar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors. Paul Farmer
I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited. Russell Means
Malcolm Fraser quote: "Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for..."
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members. Malcolm Fraser
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
Malcolm Fraser quote: "We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming..."
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser quote: "Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are..."
Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions. Malcolm Fraser
Edward James Olmos quote: "I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet."
I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet. Edward James Olmos
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. Alice Walker
Jessica Hagedorn quote: "There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous..."
There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs. Jessica Hagedorn
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories. Bianca Jagger
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. Daniel Akaka
Everything, including your set of hand-blown green glass dishes with the tiny bubbles and imperfections, little bits of sand, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indigenous aboriginal people of wherever, well, these dishes all get blown out by the blast. Picture floor-to-ceiling drapes blown out and flaming to shreds in the hot wind. Chuck Palahniuk
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs? not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves. Rollo May

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