Colonial Quotes

108 Colonial quotes by 91 unique authors

[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. I’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
I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with… — Daniel Alarcon
All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies… — Nikita Khrushchev
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger… — Mike Leigh
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond… — Nelson Mandela
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. — Unknown Author
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also… — Robert Mugabe
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one… — Mira Nair
I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on… — Emily Procter
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward… — Charles Rangel
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this… — Pat Robertson
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament. — John Buchanan Robinson
I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an… — Geoffrey Rush
And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The… — Frantz Fanon
Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose… — Kiran Desai
The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases… — Chuck Palahniuk

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