Indigenous Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  James Cameron

  Plight, May, Facts

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• Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

  Joel Salatin

  Practice, Organization, Hype

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• Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

  Evo Morales

  Majority, Bolivia, Nations

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• I don’t hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they’ll say no, they don’t want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says yes. Because that’s indigenous to that country.

  Patti Stanger

  Country, Hate, Men

  "Patti Stanger, Millionaire Matchmaker, On New York Women, Marc Anthony, Season 5". Interview with Youyoung Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• 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.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Guiding Principles, Ideas

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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

  Bianca Jagger

  Latin, America, Rights

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• We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Age, Enlightenment, Atlantis

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• The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

  Junot Diaz

  People, Population, World

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• Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

  Sarah Zettel

  Doors, Way, Next

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• We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, World, Reincarnation

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• The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the suggestion I will make to you is that the idea of constant accumulation, which is what America is about, what consumerism, NAFTA are about, means that you always take more than you need and you don't leave the rest. So I suggest that it is possible from an indigenous world view that capitalism is inherently out of order with natural law.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mean, Order, Law

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• We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.

  Evaristo Nugkuag

  Moving, Cutting, Rights

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• Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Peace, Tree, Serenity

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Conservationist”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see these outsiders following in each other's footsteps as the same person, a single soul traversing across several lives. They also see time as something that doesn't proceed inexorably into the future.

  Tom Cole

  Real, Believe, Soul

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• 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.

  Sarah Zettel

  Thinking, Would Be, Expansion

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• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Latin, Struggle

  Paul Farmer (2012). “Haiti After the Earthquake”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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

  Steven Biko

  People, Minorities, Facts

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• 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.

  Steven Biko

  Men, Land, People

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• 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.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Home, Kuwait

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• 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.

  Terri Windling

  Native American, Years, Land

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

  Vandana Shiva

  Patents, Use, Corporations

  "No Patents on Seeds, a Handbook for Activists: Why and How to Fight the Patent and Seed Act". Booklet, 2005.

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• 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.

  Rebecca Adamson

  God, Wisdom, Children

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• 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.

  KRS-One

  War, Talking, Hip Hop

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

  Evo Morales

  Honesty, Mean, Community

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• 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.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Leadership, Men, White Man

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