According to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, 26 January is not a day of celebration. They consider this day as the beginning of the dispossession of their land, violence, invasion, genocide, and massacres. Due to this reason, this day is called Survival Day or Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day, Day of Mourning. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people protest on 26 January in the whole of Australia. They demand to change the date of the national day because according to them this date marks the conflict on their sovereignty, history, and culture.
Best Invasion Day Quotes And Sayings For Australian Aboriginal People:
“Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them, it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.”
— Tony Abbott
“A real Australian is someone who knows where they really, really come from”.
— Bart Willoughby, Aboriginal musician
“If a holiday that started 80 years ago is more important than acknowledging and respecting the people that were here over 60,000 years ago and their position on it, we’ve still got a long way to go”
TRIALS, Ngarrindjeri musician from A.B. Original
“As a proud Australian, I want to celebrate this country on a day that means something positive for ALL of us – not just a lucky few”
— Natalie Amiel
“People say that Aboriginal people should ‘get over it’, that ‘it was years ago’. But we aren’t asked to forget our history – why don’t we get over our war veterans and their struggles?”
— Katie
“It’s really sad because it’s Invasion Day to us Survival Day”
Invasion Day Quotes 2023
“We have to have a date that’s more inclusive than January 26, which is the date that’s chosen as the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. To most Indigenous Australians it really reflects the day on which our world came crashing down.”
— Mick Dodson
“A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say.”
— Georges PerecAustralia Invasion Day Quotes 2024
“When the door to suicide opens it becomes a viable option that you never considered before, but, once ajar, it initiates an invasion strategy. Day by day thoughts blacken under the occupation of the new inhabitant. It becomes an all-consuming addiction that makes its home in your head and heart and, before you know it, the whole neighbourhood is talking and thinking about suicide. Eventually, the mind is overwhelmed by the conspiracy of its own darkness and begins to wage war against the body. At this point, the body is powerless.”
— B.G. Bowers
“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence – on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day”
— John F. Kennedy
“At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it’s usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we’ve chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.”
— Shonda Rhimes
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as “the Secret Six”.
— Eustace Mullins
It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.
— George Washington
We call it Survival Day. Whitefellas pretty much celebrating invasion and killing our mob off—that’s what it feels like for us.
— Warrick Wright from the Aboriginal band Local KnowledgeAustralia Invasion Day Quotes 2024
Well boys and girls, it’s January in Australia, and we all know what that means: family holidays, sizzling barbecues and blatant racism.
— Tom Ballard, columnist at the Sun Herald
January 26th marked the beginning of the murders, the rapes and the dispossession. It is no date to celebrate.
— Michael Mansell, National Aboriginal Alliance spokesman
Remember, ‘invasion’ was only used to describe the arrival of the British in 1788, not the whole 200-years plus.
— Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal law professor
Let’s get the facts right and the facts are that this country was invaded.
— Chris Lawrence, Noongar man
I would however make a strong plea for a change of date. Let us find a day on which we can all feel included, in which we can all participate equally, and can celebrate with pride our common Australian identity.
— Dr Lowitja O’DonoghueAustralia Invasion Day Quotes 2024