raped quotes

I am born of the conquerors, you of the persecuted. Raped by rum and an alien law, progress and economics, are you and I and a once-loved land peopled by tribes and trees; doomed traders and stock-exchanges, bought by faceless strangers.

-McKinney
  A Human Pattern,'Two Dreamtimes', stanzas17^18.The poem is dedicated to KathWalker (now Oodgeroo Noonuccal).