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It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages, traditions and knowledge? … The truth is that I am prone to bouts of doubt and sadness around these questions. But I have hope. Our hope is dependent upon education. Our hope depends on how serious we become about the education of our people.

Noel Pearson

Only those who have known discrimination truly know its evil.

Noel Pearson

Noel Pearson

Noel Pearson

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Born: June 25, 1965 (age 59)

Bio: Noel Pearson is an Aboriginal Australian lawyer, academic, land rights activist and founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, an organisation promoting the economic and social development of Cape York.

Known for:

Up from the Mission: Selected Writings (2009)
The War of the Worlds (2015)

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