Aboriginals Quotes

“Why couldn’t they understand she had been hungry: now she wasn’t? Now she wanted to listen to Daddy telling about the blacks.”

“It was very different with the Aboriginal. He knew what reality was.”

“Nothing hostile about them; in fact smiling and well-mannered. Wasn’t it Baudin who described them as full of fun and ‘of a fine intelligence’? And they certainly had a great sense of dignity.”

“Their lives were utterly uncomplicated because they were devoted to one purpose, dedicated in their entirety to the waging of one battle: the battle with death.”