“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It is foolish to pretend that the legacies of colonialism can be consistently erased without a trace.” — Partha Chatterjee Copy Share Image
What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
“Under what circumstances would those who are the beneficiaries of colonialism stop denying and choose to act differently?” — Paulette Regan Copy Share Image
“...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.” — S. A. David Copy Share Image
Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
“The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once… — Waziyatawin Copy Share Image
“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In the 1940s a white American man wrote about the sacred myths of other cultures. He decided he knew what they meant… — Drew Jacob Copy Share Image
With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So… — Fred Hampton 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
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
Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The British are a peculiar race. My grandfather was transported to Malaya because they needed tin, and yet I’ve never once met… — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
“As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on… — 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
There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“Thus it is that they whom we denominate "savages" are made to deserve the title. When the inhabitants of some sequestered island… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
“There has always been racism. But it developed as a leading principle of thought and perception in the context of colonialism. That’s… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Out of this unstable mix of technocracy and national security you have a nostalgia developing for colonialism or religion—atavistic in my opinion,… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“How come he cannot recognize his own cruelty now turned against him? How come he can't see his own savagery as a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“In light of recent events—genocide in East Africa, the collapse of democracy throughout the continent, the isolation of Cuba, the overthrow of… — Aimé Césaire Copy Share Image
“My identity as Jewish cannot be reduced to a religious affiliation. Professor Said quoted Gramsci, an author that I’m familiar with, that,… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
“Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the… — Kwame Nkrumah 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
The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.” — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
“It was as hard to be a Norwegian in 1881 as it was to be an American in 1770. Perhaps even harder,… — Chris Nicolaisen Copy Share Image
“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, traffickers, thieves, morons and imbeciles were white.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The greatest tragedy is not that Papuans disappear. It is that Papua disappears while Papuans remain.” — Yamin Kogoya Copy Share Image
“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
