Colonizers Quote by Johnnetta B. Cole

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

— Abigail Adams

“Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.”

— Judith Merkle Riley

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

— Marco Rubio

“One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of…

— Jane Sherron De Hart

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

— Henry Miller

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to…

— Jose Rizal

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the…

— Ken Wilson

“I wish you to recollect that the greatest conquerors are not always the greatest kings. The nations of the earth have often been subjugated…

— Audrey Truschke

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

— Peter Kropotkin

Kings are the slaves of history.

— Leo Tolstoy

“In effect, historians abolished poverty by the simple device of taking it off the agenda.”

— Antony G. Hopkins