Alcohol Quote by Havelock Ellis

And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among…

— Bible

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

— Salman Rushdie

“some British settlers of colonial America carried across the sea Puritan, biblical, scientific, and Aristotelian rationalizations of slavery and human hierarchy.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on…

— Ben Klassen

“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

“When the people came to America they brought us with them. They brought me, and Loki and Thor, Anansi and the Lion-God, Leprechauns and…

— Neil Gaiman

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

— James Clavell

Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking…

— Bartolome de las Casas

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Before the first settlers arrived on American shores, a massive plague, or series of plagues, had essentially annihilated the indigenous peoples. They”

— Evan Currie

“The Spaniards forced popery upon the inhabitants of South-America, and the Portuguese in Asia. The Jesuits were sent into China in 1552. Xavier, whom…

— William Carey

“The term 'Savage' is, I conceive, often misapplied, and indeed, when I consider the vices, cruelties, and enormities of every kind that spring up…

— Herman Melville