Salt Quotes

“There is nothing postcolonial about Australia.”
― Bruce Pascoe, Salt: Selected Essays and Stories

“I began to question everything, especially those things Australians claimed to know about Australia. We had just walked through a field of harvest, but a field where the harvesters had been discouraged from their labour 170 years ago. Discouraged by murder.”
― Bruce Pascoe, Salt: Selected Essays and Stories

“Over centuries the Doctrine was invoked to deny any challenge to the validity of those invasions, and allowed politicians and priests to picture all indigenous peoples as savages who would fall away before the force of superior intellect and belief.”
― Bruce Pascoe, Salt: Selected Essays and Stories

“For Christians to remain Christian and worthy of their religion, the people they kill must be asking for it, and the land they steal must be handed to them like a windfall apple.”
― Bruce Pascoe, Salt: Selected Essays and Stories

“I was lost in wonder. Not certainty, but the calm security of doubt. Wonder is the mainspring of hope and justice, and certainty is the excuse for its murder.”
― Bruce Pascoe, Salt: Selected Essays and Stories