Quote by Adam Hochschild Download Open image ““of white men they are branded with a red-hot”” — Adam Hochschild ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“The culture and civilization of the White man are essentially material; his measure of success is, "How much property have I acquired for myself?"… — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Red, for the blood of angry men, black, for the night that will finally end.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
“People pretend he’s a white man when it suits them, erasing part of who he is.” — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
“It’s a tendency that reflects the age-old understanding that (white) men can contain multitudes, while members of every other group are pitted against themselves,… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves themselves, and sold their students and converts into slavery. The priests who strayed from the fold stuck to their faith in one way, however; after the Reformation they tried to ensure that none of their human goods ended… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share
All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich, a multimillionaire, a card-playing partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The very people who are most ardent against entangling alliances insist most fanatically upon our doing one hundred things a year on humanitarian grounds. . . .” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were shot, or—to economize on bullets—bayoneted or… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“We run the risk of someday seeing our native population collapse and disappear,” fretfully declared the permanent committee of the National Colonial Congress of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image