Colonialism Quotes

59 Colonialism quotes by 49 unique authors

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new… — Yann Martel
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that. — Jesse Jackson
Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over… — Azar Nafisi
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key.… — David Cronenberg
Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than… — Dinesh D'Souza
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. — Imran Khan
And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away… — Wangari Maathai
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat… — Kwame Nkrumah
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which… — Frantz Fanon
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. — Barack Obama
...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come… — Mao Zedong
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's… — Steve Toltz
I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and… — Sukarno
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. — Malcolm X
You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those… — Malcolm X
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? — Anthony Burgess
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase… — Hans Kung
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement.… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take… — Wole Soyinka
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted… — Natasha Trethewey
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy. — F. Sionil Jose
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the… — Martin Jacques
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. — Stephen Kinzer
I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down. — Andrew Cohen

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