“You sap our self-confidence until we exist merely to court your approval (...) You keep us perpetually off balance, unpleasantly aware of… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
'Colonialism' and 'democracy' are two contradictory terms. In order to be 'democratic' a country has to be free. Right now, Indonesian people… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples.… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“If you steal from the thieves, can they call the cops! If you heist from the blackmarket, is it really a crime!… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The Other,” I repeated, to buy time. I was pretty sure that the Other was a French construct having something to do… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am,… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
“There's a universally recognized jewish holocaust remembrance day, and that's great, but I have just one question - where is the native… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Babylon was the government that had outlawed them, the police that had pummeled and killed them. Babylon was the church that damned… — Safiya Sinclair Copy Share Image
People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its… — Trin Yarborough Copy Share Image
“He was enraged and bitter and hoped for a personal meeting with Sarkozy where he would recount to him France's colonial history… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
“Arabs & Garbage" Strange is the Arab story with garbage— who told them, who taught them to toss waste carelessly, wherever and… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“The newspaper was always behind the news, not in front. You shouldn't ever go to the papers for information. They usually printed… — George Lamming Copy Share Image
“...(I)t can be stated that the spread of the ideology connecting Africa and black people in general with the Jews has been… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
“The imperialist found it useful to incorporate the credible and seemingly unimpeachable wisdom of science to create a racial classification to be… — R.F. Georgy 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
“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
“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
“Colonialism was also justified by an elaborate ideology, embodied in everything from Kipling’s poetry and Stanley’s lectures to sermons and books about… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
My mother grew up during the sunset of British colonialism and attended English schools, where she was not allowed to be called… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
The Financial Oversight and Management Board represents a cardinal sin against the sovereignty and self-determination of Puerto Rico. It is the single… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
“We… believed once in English liberalism and English sympathy; but we believe no longer, for facts are stronger than words. Your liberalness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision… — Kate O'Regan Copy Share Image
“I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. That is cant.… — William Joynson-Hicks Copy Share Image
Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“Of all the modern social sciences, anthropology is the one historically most closely tied to colonialism, since it was often the case… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“Europeans would like to escape from their history, a "great" history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
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