“Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it?” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“We go and do the things that you're calling exploring and adventuring ... and [for us] it's just regular life.” — Gayle Kabloona Copy Share Image
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.” — Prem Kishore Copy Share Image
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“The ' colonized do not know how to breath', the 'people here do not know how walk; they make little steps which… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, and traffickers were white.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“And that's what Mahudin calls our thought control...an induced hypnosis of inferiority, destroying confidence and initiative, prolonging the period of tutelage which… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing that led a group… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Exercising dominion over Puerto Rico, as the U.S. has done for more than a century - without granting Puerto Ricans the full… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
“They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep.… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market"… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
“You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your entire empire is built on systemic… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings… — William Appleman Williams Copy Share Image
“You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your entire empire is built on systemic… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: "Down with the English… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Our neighbor, Hugo du Toit, was a very handsome Afrikaner, who, with his two sisters, was a close friend of Louis Botha,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Hochschild insists on calling the EIC an example of “colonialism”, stretching the term beyond its meaning. European colonies were governed by and… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
“I am glad that Hochschild admits that the photographs in his book are fake. Still, to his point, I do not doubt… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that… — Douglas Pearce Copy Share Image
“Darwin had been lured to South America by the prospect of discovering new birds and new beetles, but he couldn’t help noticing… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“Do you even know,” she said, and I could tell from the sound of her voice that she was about to cry,… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“I do not fear the sun darkening my skin. I fear colonialism damaging my self-worth with bleach.” — The Thoughtful Beast Copy Share Image
“Shoving hot bread up a roasting bird's ass & feasting on it seems like an apt celebration of colonialism.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
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