Colonized Quotes
22 quotes by 18 authors
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We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.
— Sherman Alexie
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It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the…
— Angela Davis
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The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in…
— Malcolm X
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The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all…
— Andreas Baader
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Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
— Meshell Ndegeocello
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Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.
— John Henrik Clarke
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The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type…
— Frantz Fanon
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Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been…
— Aurora Levins Morales
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It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to…
— Elon Musk
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In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance…
— Paul Davies
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America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as…
— James Frey
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For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread…
— Frantz Fanon
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It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.
— Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of…
— Kamila Shamsie
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The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
— Frantz Fanon
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The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
— George Blagden
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There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and…
— Charlie Pierce
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In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century,…
— Mustafa Akyol
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Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
— Mustafa Akyol
Who Wrote These Colonized Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 22 Colonized Quotes as follows: