Colonialism Quotes

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

— Barack Obama

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

— Calvin Trillin

“[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.”

— Arundhati Roy

“White men are the apex predator of earth.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

— Christina Stead

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

— Mo Ibrahim

“Center of the world is indigenous.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

— Chadwick Boseman

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

“British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism”

— Fareed Zakaria

If you go to the part of Nigeria I'm from, people will say 'why is colonialism my concern?'

— Kemi Badenoch

“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He”

— Adam Hochschild

“Settler colonialism, as an institution or system, requires violence or the threat of violence to attain its goals.”

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

— Imran Khan

The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.

— Winnie Byanyima

Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end…

— Assata Shakur

“When two brothers are busy fighting, an evil man can easily attack and rob their poor mother. Mankind should always stay united,…

— Suzy Kassem

“To be sure, the church has greatly assisted the colonialist; backing his ventures, helping his conscience, contributing to the acceptance of colonization…

— Albert Memmi

Visit to Africa reshaped my point-of-view of colonialism. It reshaped my point-of-view of my own sense of source, and my own place…

— Forest Whitaker

I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“Those who believe Europe is for the world have never explained why this process should be one way: why Europeans going anywhere…

— Douglas Murray

“The West broke the world, now the human race gotta resurrect the world, offspring of the terrorists and terrorized alike - but…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or…

— Tom Cain

Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land,…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the waves lap against the…

— Frantz Fanon

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money…

— Joseph Conrad

Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole…

— Jill Stein

As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if…

— Gerald Horne

I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly…

— Rem Koolhaas

“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. Our part of the world, known…

— Eduardo Galeano

“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as…

— Abhijit Naskar

“No one starts a war warning that those involved will lose their innocence - that children will definitely die and be forever…

— Alexandra Fulller

“As I wrote, despite the malicious craft practiced by Hochschild and others, I am glad that an extensive documentary record of the…

— Bruce Gilley

“In a game, there is a main character raised within American culture: he speaks in slang, lives for sex and pleasure, feels…

— Sov8840

“Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in…

— Albert Memmi

“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I've even come to a conclusion that would get me blackballed from ever setting foot in liberal education circles again. That is…

— A.J. Jacobs

“I wish that Hochschild would come clean on the litany of other errors I catalogue in my essay: Conrad could not have…

— Bruce Gilley

“Work, beloved ones, work, for this is jihad... victory or martyrdom. We must make weapons, however simple, and strive to improve them…

— Yahya Al-Sinwar

“The colonialist's existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument…

— Albert Memmi