Colonization Quote by Albert Memmi

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves…

— Fred D'Aguiar

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

— Abraham Lincoln

Had I not stepped into the saddle in the first place, entire cultures, histories, and most importantly, profound connections with people and animals whom…

— Tim Cope

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able…

— Henry Louis Gates

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell…

— Hailemariam Desalegn

To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but…

— Bernard Kouchner

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

— Steven Spielberg

“However, many of our ancestors were both the colonizers and the colonized. We embody immensely conflicting cultures.”

— Dolores Delgado Bernal

“They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only…

— Joseph Conrad

I was surrounded by nature growing up, which lent itself to an appreciation for space and nature, but also an understanding of what it's…

— Noah Kahan

I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

— V. S. Naipaul