Colonial Quotes

108 quotes by 91 authors

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a… — Evo Morales
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing… — Chuck Palahniuk
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed… — Os Guinness
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement. — Tom Morello
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic. — David Morrissey
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. — V.S. Naipaul
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. — Chinua Achebe
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave… — Han Suyin
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give… — Kwame Nkrumah
Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution. — Ho Chi Minh
[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even… — John M Swomley
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. — Stephen Gardiner
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough. — Jessica Hagedorn
In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian… — Junichiro Koizumi
This is not the colonial empire that somehow he has in his hand. Iâ€™ve never felt that from him. I felt that from [George] W… — Rudy Giuliani
The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split. — W.C. Fields
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. — Sidney Poitier
Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such… — Junichiro Koizumi
This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to… — Marcus Garvey
Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as… — Jomo Kenyatta

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