Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970s

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Often attributed to Lila Watson, who has said she was "not comfortable being credited for something that had been born of a collective process" - the attribution here is the one she accepts.

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