Indigenous Quotes

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

Wind is an indigenous state resource, and we're not taking advantage of it. - Peter Mastic

When you meet these other people, you've probably never met other indigenous people before, so you kind of might be able to develop a relationship and become friends. - Tracy Thomas

What's most important is to think about the interests and the well-being of the indigenous communities here and what best represents their interests, ... I am still hoping for direct dialogue between the mission and the government to resolve these differences. - William Brownfield

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground. - Henry David Thoreau

We're there to help the indigenous people. We're not involved with any government agencies, not involved with the CIA, not involved with uranium mining. Our purpose there is to help the people. - Nita Zelenak

We're quite prepared to pay that price. Why then is the international community ... condemning when indigenous people stick up for their rights, to exert themselves in their own home country. I can't understand it. I think you people are hypocrites. - George Speight

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

We, the poor, also have the right to govern and in Bolivia, the poor indigenous have the right to be presidents. - Evo Morales

We were honored to speak and to share our stories. The need to build economic, cultural and solidarity ties between indigenous people of [the] north and south continents continued to be repeated by the speakers. - Robert Free Galvan