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title: "7 Colonized People Quotes by 6 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Colonized People quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Colonized People sayings and thoughts."
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> [It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tsitsi-dangarembga/it-s-bad-enough-when-a-country-gets-colonized-but-when-the-people-do/)

[Tsitsi Dangarembga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tsitsi-dangarembga/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/181/tsitsi-dangarembga-36343_colonized_it-s-bad-enough-when-a-country-gets-colo_315253.jpg)

> [The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/the-status-of-native-is-a-nervous-condition-introduced-and-maintained/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bea/jean-paul-sartre-220_colonized_the-status-of-native-is-a-nervous-condit_366321.png)

> [Women are a colonized people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-morgan/women-are-a-colonized-people/)

[Robin Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-morgan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/robin-morgan-9036_colonization_women-are-a-colonized-people-731038_731038.jpg)

> [Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/well-as-a-native-as-a-colonized-people-you-do-live-in-the-in-between/)

[Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cba/sherman-alexie-444_country_well-as-a-native-as-a-colonized-people-y_1474040.png)

> [For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/for-a-colonized-people-the-most-essential-value-because-the-most/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3de/frantz-fanon-3566_bread_for-a-colonized-people-the-most-essentia_2192960.jpg)

> [Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ferdinand-marcos/filipinos-are-not-worse-than-any-other-colonized-people-except-that/)

[Ferdinand Marcos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ferdinand-marcos/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d76/ferdinand-marcos-10352_always_filipinos-are-not-worse-than-any-other-c_3121956.jpg)

> [Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/every-colonized-people-in-other-words-every-people-in-whose-soul-an/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaa/frantz-fanon-3566_adoption_every-colonized-people-in-other-words-ev_3144777.jpg)

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