Malcolm Fraser Quotes

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

The greatest stain upon this great Australian nation's character, without any question, is the great gaps that exist between our Aboriginal brothers and sisters in terms of their health, their education, their living conditions, their incarceration rates and life expectancy. It's a great stain.

Barriers today are largely class-based - income, networks, education. And those affect many white people as well.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

When I consider the political future of the Natives in South Africa I must say that I look into shadows and darkness, and then I feel inclined to shift the intolerable burden of solving that sphinx problem to the ampler shoulders and the stronger brains of the future.

Visible minorities lead in education but trail in income.

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.

The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.

Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it for less.

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

One third of African American males are destined to be in prison sometime in their lifetime.

You cannot turn the clock back, you cannot give the island of Manhattan back to the indigenous, but on the other hand, you can ensure that the indigenous can maintain their way of life.

You know, women not making dollar for dollar the same as a man is not new. It's been that way since day zero, since the founding of this country. And when you put African-American women and Hispanic women into the mix it's even worse than that.

I have spent years representing victims of racial profiling and police brutality and investigating patterns of drug law enforcement in poor communities of color - and attempting to help people who have been released from prison attempting to 're-enter' into a society that never seemed to have much use to them in the first place.

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.

If you take a look at the breaches of rights, whether it's the underfunding of education or health care, and all these issues which accentuate the poverty of Canada's indigenous people, and the lack of reaction to them - it becomes clear that if Canadians understood what's at stake, they wouldn't stand for it.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

Often in America, access to the freedoms and privileges guaranteed under the Constitution are determined by ZIP code.

In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.