Indigenous Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (I) Quotes

When I talk about traditions, I`m not talking about temples, which we got from China anyway. There is an indigenous Japan, and elements of that are what I`m trying to capture in my work.

- Hayao Miyazaki

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

- Bianca Jagger

It is important to me to stay in Canada. I used to think it was because I thought it was important to build up an indigenous film industry - but now I realise I`m incapable of living anywhere else. I`m a real homebody.

- Sarah Polley

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

- Edward James Olmos

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.

- Edward James Olmos

There is an absolute commitment from National that there will be less indigenous trees cut down.

- Nick Smith

For the most part, if they are nonindigenous to the state and they`re not endangered or threatened, they`re not regulated, ... Most of it is going to fall between the cracks. If it`s not indigenous to the state, then it`s up to the county or the city to invoke ordinances.

- Jack Baker

Clearly, it is in the interests of Western societies to help protect indigenous cultures,

- Paul Cox

How sad it will be if in three or four centuries all that is spoken in the world is English, Hindi, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese and a handful of European languages, ... We will also lose much healing knowledge and much conservation knowledge embedded in indigenous cultures.

- Paul Cox

I am not an advocate of restricting choices of indigenous people, and so I think it inevitable that all indigenous peoples will eventually encounter Western technology and western ways,

- Paul Cox

I would definitely take on that role, taking a stand on issues, like the government giving an apology or acknowledging indigenous people.

- Cathy Freeman

(Mr. Milite had the assurance that Ms. Shamaris`s clients include George Clooney, Daryl Hannah and Katie Ford.) A lot of her pieces combine an Asian feeling with a clean modern look, ... They have a warm ethnic or indigenous feeling, but they`re not hippie looking.

- Katie Ford

If the program grows and grows, which I know it will, with the commitment from Qantas and the AFL`s indigenous foundation, then I couldn`t see why not - in the next five or 10 years - possibly (the number of) indigenous players (increasing) from 52 (in the AFL and) doubling,

- Michael Long

And the goal is to sample DNA from people all over the world, both indigenous populations and the general public,

- Spencer Wells

Let`s all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

- Al Hutchinson

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

- Alan Oatsvall

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

- Allan Cribbins

If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.

- Alvin Kernan

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

- Alvin Kernan

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

- Alvin Kernan

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

- Alvin Kernan

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

- Alvin Kernan

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

- Alvin Kernan

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

- Alvin Kernan

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

- Alvin Kernan

Our truth is, redskin is tied to the murder of indigenous people.

- Anfavea President Rogelio Golfarb

We really respect the indigenous knowledge. These traditional values of dealing with illness have validity, even if we don`t understand the scientific basis.

- Ann Cook

We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.

- Ann Marie Dillon