Columbus Quote by James W. Loewen

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only…

— John Henrik Clarke

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

— Henry David Thoreau

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

“Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world which in some places was as densely populated as…

— Howard Zinn

“Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.”

— José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero

“manufacturing false hierarchies based on race and gender in order to enforce a brutal class system is a very long story. Our modern capitalist…

— Naomi Klein

“In the American colonies, the first laborers were European indentured servants. When African laborers were forcibly brought to Virginia beginning in 1619, status was…

— Alan H. Goodman

“There is no doubt that the destiny of indigenous races has been tragic in the process of contact with European invasion… The historian of…

— Bronisław Malinowski

“Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Therefore, good-bye Columbus? Balzac once suggested that all great fortunes are founded on a crime. So too all great civilizations. The European conquest of…

— Charles Krauthammer

“In those days I imagined racism as a tumor that could be isolated and removed from the body of America, not as a pervasive…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The first instance of slave trading and slave labor developed in the New World involved, racially, not the Negro but the Indian. The Indians…

— Eric Williams