Aboriginal Land Rights

Famous quotes containing the words aboriginal, land and/or rights:

    “John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: ‘No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.’”
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program. Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People (The WPA Guide to Connecticut)

    “That is the land of lost content
    I see it shining plain,
    The happy highways where I went
    And cannot come again.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colours would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)