Quotes Flashcards
Arthur Calwell 1945
“We cannot continue to hold our Island continent for ourselves and our descendants unless we greatly increase our numbers.”
Alec Downer 1958
“Distinguished and highly qualified asians.”
1971 Whitlam
“We removed the assertion that a primary national adjective would be to increase population. We removed the commitment to expand the immigration program…and thirdly we said unequivocally that there must be no discrimination on grounds of race or colour or nationality.”
Martin Luther King 1963
‘One day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of this creed: “we hold these truths to be self-evident: that men are created equal.”’
Manifesto 1938
“This festival of 150 years of so-called “progress” in Australia commemorates also 150 years of misery and degradation imposed on the original native inhabitants by white invaders to this country.”
Jack Patten 1938
“We ask for full citizen rights, including old-age pensions, maternity bonuses, relief from work when unemployed, and the right to a full Australian education for our children.”
Keating 1992
“Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practiced discrimination and exclusion.”
2008 apology
“For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry…and for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.”
Declaration of human rights article 1
‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.’
Menzies 1939
“British countries must fight together or fall together.”
Curtin 1941
“Australia looks to America, free of anypangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom.”
