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Our road is the Road of Yesterday and the Road of Today, for Yesterday and Today are still the same.

— Daisy Bates

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The Australian native can withstand all the reverses of nature, fiendish droughts and sweeping floods, horrors of thirst and enforced starvation—but he cannot withstand civilization.

The Passing of the Aborigines (1938)

Your true gentlewoman does not sit down and weep and say "I've never done such things"—she simply "does" and no more about it.

There are a few fortunate races that have been endowed with cheerfulness as their main characteristic, the Australian Aborigine and the Irish being among these.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us?

No man or woman, who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way, is without enemies.

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