Aboriginal Quotations

Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're not that good. It's stupid. There's such an incredible pool of talent out there, and they're still coming out of drama schools. People just need to take a leap of faith.

My mum's from Broome, so I'm a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I'm not necessarily in the water.

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

There is this really old school stereotypical notion in Australia that to be Aboriginal you have to be black: anything but white or pale skinned. What 'The Sapphires' does is open up the conversation that I've been having my whole life, the fact that being indigenous isn't about the color of your skin; it's about your connection to your culture.

Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just recently directed a film called 'Lore;' another director, Rachel Perkins - she's an Aboriginal director, and I've worked with her three times now, and she gave me my first film role, actually, back in 1997.

I grew up partially in Switzerland but mostly in Australia. I lived in Kakadu for a short time - it's an Aboriginal community. My best friend growing up was Aboriginal. She taught me so much.

I lived for a couple of years when I was 9 years old on beautiful Aboriginal sacred land in a town of a thousand people in northwestern Australia. It's where the Aborigines are still very connected to their culture, the Dreamtime culture. It was really quite a special experience.

At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that the best books already existing, besides being old, treat chiefly of aboriginal customs and habits now extinct, and of the introduction of Christianity and subsequent historical events.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

She's hurt for her family, her children who are also of aboriginal descent, and she's also hurt for the aboriginal community.

If it wasn't aboriginal women or if it wasn't in a more remote rural area it would be getting a huge amount of attention, so there's a bit of a double standard. The symposium was a step in the right direction, but the government has to formally acknowledge there's a problem.

Here is evidence that should prompt a sense of urgency among those responsible for aboriginal education. Low education outcomes are condemning the next generation to poverty.

He's had a lot of background and there is a lot of goodwill among the aboriginal communities. For those looking to get that development done and working with the aboriginal communities, I think Jim Prentice is a pretty bright light.

There is no evidence I'm aware of that shows the education of aboriginal children is more successfully accomplished in band-operated schools anywhere in Canada.

Our Canada is an inclusive country, built by English - and French - speaking Canadians, together with our Aboriginal peoples, who were here first, and the millions who have come since from every corner of the world. And still they come-1 million people a year make inquiries about coming to Canada.

Those who feed off the Aboriginal industry do not want to see things changed. Look at the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. Members receive $290 a day sitting allowance and $320 a day travelling allowance, and most of these people also hold other very well paid positions. No wonder they did not want to resign recently!

The Aboriginal people are running scared as they don't know what's going on.

We hope that Western will become known as the centre to go to for aboriginal policy research. Other universities have diverse strengths, but we feel confident that we are leaders in research that directly improves policies to benefit Aboriginal peoples.

Why, when this prime minister claims that aboriginal issues are his top priority, does the Liberal premier of Ontario say he's 'missing in action' in this crisis?

When Colleen first heard about it she was just devastated because it was so hurtful. She also felt it was such a slap in the face to aboriginal people. It was also very hurtful to her family - her children and grandchildren.

The status quo in terms of violence against aboriginal people is silence.

There are Aboriginal groups up north and in the west, northwest of WA, that do not have television, they do not have cinemas, but they do have videos.

QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. --Oglum P. Boomp

This case is well known and will set a precedent on aboriginal title based on earlier court decisions, as well as establishing the government's role in providing financial support to First Nations for legal costs.

This is proof that we are committed to reconciling aboriginal rights in Canada, ... We aren't stuck in the past, we are prepared to evolve.

Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited by Europeans in 1642, Tasmania was occupied by 4,000 hunter-gatherers related to mainland Australians, but with the simplest technology of any recent people on Earth. Unlike mainland Aboriginal Australians, Tasmanians couldn't start a fire.

Not all aboriginal women are prostitutes, drug addicts or homeless. The bottom line is if you have a loved one and they disappear, it doesn't matter what they are, you want to be taken seriously.

Sufficient progress has been made in all key areas namely, clarity of the regulatory process, the negotiation of benefits and access agreements with northern aboriginal groups, and fiscal framework discussions with governments to proceed to public hearings.

My best friend was Aboriginal.

It's important to remember we're comparing results of Aboriginal students without reference to the general population. Relative to other schools (and based on the report), Carson Graham is not successful in ensuring that its Aboriginal students do well. But I strongly believe the report card provides the greatest benefit to schools that are not successful.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. Andfew destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much towardrestoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousandyears to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are stillstanding in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mightyforests of the Sierra.

As an aboriginal person with any kind of dam, whether it's run of the river or not, we have to look at it closely and decide what effects it will have on us.

It's to give truth to history rather than ignore it, deny it or rationalize it. Somebody died and that somebody was an aboriginal person and that aboriginal person was a child.

Aboriginal printmaking is probably one of the most vital areas of printmaking at the moment,

The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.