Children Quote by Anonymous

“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?”

— Ambeth Ocampo

“It was a complex chain of oppression in Virginia. The Indians were plundered by white frontiersmen, who were taxed and controlled by the Jamestown…

— Howard Zinn

“[...] colonization was a paedophile [sic] who insists on being a parent.”

— Tapiwa Mugabe

“Hey! All you peoples draggin along here. Stop and come stick your ass on a Night of Joy stool," he started again. "Night of…

— John Kennedy Toole

“He looked taken aback, but I didn’t care if I’d offended him. I was about to be sold. And if it amused this pampered…

— Lesley Livingston

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

— Dolores Delgado Bernal

“Hey, check this weirdo out.” Hi was inspecting a bus on the mantel. “This face is ninety percent eyebrow. What do you wanna bet…

— Kathy Reichs

“No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It seemed that owning one man made you a scoundrel, but owning an entire nation made you a colonial benefactor.”

— Nelson A. Denis

“Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, who had spent much of his youth in Europe, expressed surprise and shock when John C. Calhoun, a…

— David Brion Davis

It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round…

— Anonymous

“in favor of southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life.”

— Harper Lee