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"People die because they find living too painful."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians."
"We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life."
"Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action."
"Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions."
"If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations."
"Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help."
"Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial."
"Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians."
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