Top 412 Indigenous Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people.
I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.
I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.
Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.
The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
Tradition has to be retaken by the liberal forces, so that they can show their values of tolerance and democracy not as novel western ideas but as ones indigenous to Pakistan, as a part of its very creation.
Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.
Hawaii - the Aloha state - is built on the strength of its multicultural society, from our indigenous Native Hawaiian people to the many immigrants that followed.
Caceres was a vocal and brave indigenous leader, an opponent of the 2009 Honduran coup that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, made possible.
It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.
In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
My mother would drag me to remote clinics to show the indigenous Dayaks what a healthy baby should look like.
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.
Indigenous people all over the world take quite a lot of trouble with their hair and their clothes.
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.
In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them.
In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.
The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is key to moving forward.
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.
Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?
What we do to our native Australians, our own indigenous people, is nothing short of horrific.
The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.
Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.
I don't think anyone who's had a casual observation of the Trump administration will suggest that their priority is going to be environment, Indigenous and other things like that.
For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support cultures and the remaining biological sanctuaries.
We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.
So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He [Guerra] went there before shooting began, with a script written mostly in Spanish.
I put it on myself to be a role model for all Australian kids, especially indigenous kids.
Canada has, entrenched in our Constitution, a world-leading recognition of Indigenous rights.
The indigenous population is not responsible [for rising HIV infection rates]. It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.
I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.
We have to recognize is that the best way to improve the quality of life for First Nations and Indigenous Canadians is through economic development and activity.
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.
As a proud Indigenous man I have a lot of things that are symbolic and have a lot of meaning to me.
We need ongoing indigenous products, like 'Blood,' to sell on the international market.
No one can question the talent of India's youth after the success of the Mars Mission. Everything indigenous!
Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
We need to keep an eye on influences from the Middle East or, let's say, indigenous groups, that might be involved in terrorism.
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
