Colonial Quotes
108 Colonial quotes by 91 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
— David Morrissey
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
— V.S. Naipaul
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
— Chinua Achebe
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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
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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
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Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.
— Ho Chi Minh
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