Back Quote by Imran Khan

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You…

— Wole Soyinka

“Colonialism had its way with making us believe we were inadequate, if we mimicked the lifestyle and values it upheld, we were embraced with…

— Mala Naidoo

“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of…

— Frantz Fanon

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

— Lupita Nyong'o

The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-à-vis everyone else. "Us against the…

— Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

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…

— Wangari Maathai

Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough,…

— Chinua Achebe

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

— Barack Obama

“The colonialist's existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument which states…

— Albert Memmi

The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved…

— Paul Romer

The only way to resist colonialism is through education.

— Tariq Ramadan

But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation…

— John F. Kennedy