Children Quote by David Van Reybrouck

“School field trips had always been a welcome escape from routine, particularly when they'd involved aquariums or grown-ups dressed in colonial costumes.”

— Kristin Gore

“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told that they…

— Isak Dinesen

“I was trying to find a way to you," Ky says. "I wanted to cross the plain and get back to the Society somehow.…

— Ally Condie

“Colonialism oppressed and subverted Africans and remade them as scavengers, pleaders, and servants”

— Paul Theroux

“Education and assimilation were devastatingly effective at controlling a conquered people.”

— Dani Harper

“As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person…

— Pat Conroy

“We obviously don’t live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he could use…

— Tucker Elliot

“What we did do was got to Chinese school. Whether you lived in D.C., Ann Arbor, New York, or Orlando, if there were Chinese…

— Eddie Huang

“I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.”

— Michael Herr

“Meanwhile, in the government school, I guess that children were awaiting the arrival of their teachers from the plusher suburbs of Accra, caught in…

— James Tooley

“Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened.”

— Rachel Klein

“When I was in second grade, my teacher, Miss Maxwell, read from The Harmony Herald that one in every four children lived in China.…

— Philip Gulley