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“I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.”

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.”

“In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as a whole, not merely a part of it, that must survive. This is the indigenous understanding. It is the understanding in a global sense. We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.”

People Whole Understanding Simple Decision Society Planets Related Approval Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it on their own terms. They want to be able to use their national resources and their assets in a way that protects and sustains them. Our territories are our wealth, the major assets we have. And Indigenous people use and steward this property so that they can achieve and maintain a livelihood, and achieve and maintain that same livelihood for future generations.”

“The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.”

“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.”

War Christian Order Evil Advantage Internals Foe Turkeys Intervention Indigenous Disturbed Being There Turkish Taking Advantage Armenians Armenia Armenian Genocide

Author:Talaat Pasha

“The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.”

Real Moments Faces Grief Return Safe Rivers Instinct Intuition Wounds Real Life Grants Tides Indigenous Sanctuary Momentary Safe Places

Book:The Prince of Tides

Source: The Prince of Tides

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

Want Mean Different Community Honesty Models Concepts Ancestor Participation Indigenous

Author:Evo Morales

“We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples so that we may enjoy the right to maintain our culture, our heritage and our land, as a united Australia.”

“Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.”

Different Share Diversity Rivers Human Rights Boat Brotherhood Indigenous Unity In Diversity Indigenous People Lacrosse

Author:Oren Lyons

“Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and equality before the law, and respect for cultural identity and cultural diversity. These human rights must be capable of being enjoyed otherwise they are empty gestures.”

“How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.”

Looks America Language Indian Native Native American Smooth Indigenous American Indian Native American Wisdom Native America Native American Indian Great Native American Native American Earth Indian Wisdom Native Wisdom Native American Indian Inspirational Native Language

Book:Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: With an account of the late war

Source: Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: With an account of the late war

“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.”

People Men Made Leadership White Australia Replaced White Man Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Galarrwuy Yunupingu

“We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of national mourning for us. We must leave history behind us and look forward.”

People Looks Country Lasts Leadership Behinds Share Mourning Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Galarrwuy Yunupingu

“For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect a people to be able to enjoy their culture without their cultural heritage and their sacred belongings is equivalent to amputating their legs and digging up the ground and asking them to run a marathon.”

People Heart Running Able Culture Enjoy Leadership Asking Sacred Impact Legs Belonging Heritage Marathon Indigenous Digging Pumps Separating Indigenous People Cultural Heritage

Author:Mick Dodson

“If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life but as a place of reverence and worship, where every tree, rock and waterhole had significance, you will get some understanding of the importance of land to indigenous people.”

People Ifs Years Wisdom Understanding Imagine Tree Land Rocks Worship Importance Significance Reverence Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Tania Major

“We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of individual groups or people -be they indigenous peoples, or peoples of Asian or African or American descent, or Jews or Muslims- are not sacrificed on an altar of progress for some while there are setbacks to others.”

People Humans Values Individual Left Moral Rights Progress Groups Ethics Human Rights Jew Bus Asian Indigenous Altars Setback Descent Indigenous People

Author:Matthew Coon Come

“The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.”

World Giving Stills Ideas Nature Natural Relation Species Thanks Aliens Considering Indigenous Natural World Indigenous People Indebtedness

Author:Charlie Cook

“The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.”

“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.”

People Want Past Racism Victim Human Rights Myth Tolerance Ruins Intolerance Philanthropy Refugee Jungle Indigenous Zoos Indigenous People

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand that this is not a favor or a concession, but simply their natural right to be recognized as belonging to a culture that is distinct from the Western culture, a culture in which they have to live their own faith.”

Ifs Culture Understanding Natural Identity Western Human Rights Favors Belonging Indigenous Concessions Western Culture Indigenous People Cultural Identity

Author:Samuel Ruiz

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

Earth Planets Phenomenon Indigenous Ufo Planet Earth

Author:Brad Steiger

“If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's not a bad thing if hip-hop did degrade that society.”

Ifs World War Culture Talking Hip Hop Hips Hops Bad Things Indigenous Degrade Indigenous Culture Start Wars

Author:KRS-One

“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”

Knows Way African American Asian Indigenous Latino Asian American

Author:Edward James Olmos

“I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet”

People Support Planets Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Edward James Olmos

“This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare – drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.”

“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?”

Firsts Has Beens Country States Done Desire Majors Indigenous Assignments Head Of State

Author:Nnamdi Azikiwe

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

Knows Night Natural Animal Desert Boxing Better Place Indigenous Habitat Natural Habitats

Author:Don King

“I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots”

People Thinking Kicks Fancy Boots Indigenous Persian Squirrels

Author:Thom Yorke

“The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.”

Source: Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry

“The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the land and the heritage of its indigenous peoples and provides justice and equity for all. I think reconciliation is about changing the structures that govern us and trying to influence opinion leaders in whatever way we can.”

“For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians have only been counted in the census since the 1967 Referendum. Even so, State protection and welfare laws continued to control the lives of Indigenous Australians and denied them equal rights, well into the 1970's.”

Wells States Law Rights Equal Protection Welfare Australia Denied Citizenship Participation Indigenous Equal Rights Australian Referendums Census

Author:Jackie Huggins

“We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family violence in this country. For the first time, an Australian Prime Minister has held a summit in the national capital to listen to concerns and ideas on this issue from a group of Indigenous leaders.”

“Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of the things they eat; while among the indigenous peoples there are no bald people, because we eat other things.”

People Disease Normal Europe Indigenous Indigenous People Baldness

Author:Evo Morales

“Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.”

Giving Should War Sex Moral Terrible Shots Capitalism Luck Betrayal Supreme Triumph Indigenous Prostitution Bad Luck Collaborators

Author:Julie Burchill

“Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland.”

“I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.”

Kind Grew Grew Up Singing West Rhythm Mexican Vocal Indigenous Signatures African Music

Author:Linda Ronstadt

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

Use Plant Corporations Collections Illegal Indigenous Theft Patents

Author:Vandana Shiva

“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.”

Years Land Native Fascinated Native American Indigenous Folklore Hispanic

Author:Terri Windling

“In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and Kurds to be butchered and not going to Baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. In Iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of Kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.”

“Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.”

People Want Should Ends Government Today America Past Century Racism Victim Myth Ruins Ashamed Latin Indigenous Twentieth Century Latin America Zoos

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds.”

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

People Should Facts Values Minorities Indigenous Indigenous People Settlers

Author:Steven Biko

“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 Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.”

Source: Haiti After the Earthquake

“Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture.”

Light Today Christian Culture Christianity Poverty Darkness Native Superstitions Alcoholism Indigenous Reservations

Author:Bryan Fischer

“With the goal of crafting a course that fits harmoniously with its surroundings, we took full advantage of the dramatic vistas, indigenous flora and beautiful rolling terrain to create a memorable golf experience for members and resort guests.”

Beautiful Courses Goal Fit Members Advantage Golf Dramatic Memorable Guests Rolling Surroundings Resorts Indigenous Terrain Vistas Flora

Author:Pete Dye

“All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Wonder Changed Exploration Expansion Indigenous Solar System Westward Expansion

Author:Sarah Zettel

“Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.”

Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle to the ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples and the sacredness of creation.”

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

Half Proud Indigenous Peru

Author:Q'orianka Kilcher

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