When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental…

“Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)”

— Carolina De Robertis

“Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit.”

— Carolina De Robertis

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the…

— Jesse Jackson

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need…

— Kofi Annan

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

— Hilary Mantel

Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian…

— Heinrich von Treitschke

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America,…

— Fidel Castro

The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they…

— Francis Parkman

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

— Alvaro de Vasconcelos

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

— Mason Cooley

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been…

— Jonathan Sacks

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the…

— Northrop Frye

Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have…

— George W. Bush

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon