Colonial Quotes

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In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for… — Cecil Rhodes
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue â€˜ethnicâ€™ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)… — Philip Gourevitch
Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away.… — Vittorio Arrigoni
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of… — Paul Farmer
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This… — Ahmed Ben Bella
Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands… — Heinrich von Treitschke
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home… — Robyn Davidson
I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop… — Arthur Laffer
One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate… — Amilcar Cabral
I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South… — Junichiro Koizumi
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this was… — Christopher Columbus
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the… — Edmund Morgan
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are… — Karl Liebknecht
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a… — Robert S Ellwood
If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging? — Ho Chi Minh
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial… — Louis Leakey
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against… — Leon Trotsky
One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out… — Johan Galtung
Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian… — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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