Aborigines Quotes

“The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.”
― Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long

“The Australian aborigines, reckoned to be among the most primitive of races upon evidence that is far from conclusive, have a region that is well-developed. They worship the Earth Mother, and recognise in their graceful, plaintive stories the prior existence of culture heroes as well limned as any in Valhalla. To an amazing degree they feel the reality of the metaphysical world they have created––the dream-time, which is neither a dream nor a period, or if it is a period is one which has no dimension, so that the past and the present exist together.”
― Olaf Ruhen, Tangaroa's Godchild

“When you look at it objectively, that’s what most colonists do—they land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was permits to hunt aborigines. If you wipe a whole people from the face of the earth, then there’s no one to point fingers at you. It’s just their spirits that haunt you and spirits can’t do shit.”
― Alex Latimer, The Space Race

“The burning off and the gathering together are one.”
― Billy Marshall-Stoneking, Singing the snake: Poems from the western desert, 1979-1988

“The aborigines were a source of wonder and amusement to be alternately fed, clothed, teased, educated, and petted.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen

“The idea of discovery and consequent possession is used by those with neither the intelligence nor sensitivity to see the value in lives other than their own. Anyway, there is no need to possess anything when there is access to everything. It is only when someone says that your mother belongs to them that there is a problem.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Van Diemen's land enjoys the great advantage of being free from a native population

[Observation made by Charles Darwin, Feb 1836]”
― James Boyce