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> [What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/what-are-the-10-major-legacies-that-european-colonization-have-left/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

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## More by Hilary Beckles

> [You can read Windrush as a morality tale, but it is about the future of black people in the Caribbean. Where next will they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/you-can-read-windrush-as-a-morality-tale-but-it-is-about-the-future/)

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> [What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/what-are-the-10-major-legacies-that-european-colonization-have-left/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [The Caribbean calls upon the enslaving governments of Europe and their national institutions, all enriched and empowered by their crimes against humanity, to return…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/the-caribbean-calls-upon-the-enslaving-governments-of-europe-and/)

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> [Effectively transcending and conquering the legacies of enchainment, impoverishment and racial denigration continue to elude us. Residual elements of the plantation-based past continue to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/effectively-transcending-and-conquering-the-legacies-of-enchainment/)

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> [Effectively, what we are saying to the governments of Europe is, 'OK, after 300 years, you have left these islands in a pretty bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/effectively-what-we-are-saying-to-the-governments-of-europe-is-ok/)

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> [Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of bridges across…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/reparative-justice-is-not-about-black-people-standing-on-the-street/)

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> [West Indian Test cricketers are among the top world cricketers in terms of pay and remuneration. They are not underpaid. They are easily in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/west-indian-test-cricketers-are-among-the-top-world-cricketers-in/)

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> [If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/if-the-british-public-were-shown-slavery-in-their-own-society-seen/)

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> [Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/pushing-ahead-with-a-self-emancipatory-agenda-is-critical-but-we-must/)

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> [West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/west-indian-people-had-made-their-greatest-single-cultural-investment/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [The cricket star, like everyone else, should have an intelligent understanding of the crisis of the nation-state and the marginalisation of small communities within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/the-cricket-star-like-everyone-else-should-have-an-intelligent/)

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> [The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/the-caribbean-world-has-changed-radically-since-the-1960s-and/)

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