Able Quote by Michael Parenti

“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

Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for…

— F. Sionil Jose

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“For thousands of years, imperial conquests have been launched by Asians, Africans, and indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, as well as by Europeans.”

— Thomas Sowell

Our country's liberation struggle arose as a consequence of the contradiction between colonized and colonizers, between exploited and exploiters. Reformist patterns of nationalist pressure…

— Samora Machel

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II,…

— Noam Chomsky

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

— Bernard DeVoto

The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

For over two centuries, each generation of Americans before us confronted and solved problems. They embraced opportunities and Americans have never had it easy.…

— Marco Rubio

“European imperialism was entirely unlike all other imperial projects in history. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Our ancestors had fought and murdered one another, married and forged alliances, founded countries. At their best - but only for selfish reasons -…

— Andrei Codrescu

For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required…

— Martin Jacques