Leadership Quote by Paul Theroux

“The history of colonization, imperialism is a record of betrayal, of lies, and deceits. The demand for that which is real is a demand…

— Bell Hooks

“...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.”

— S. A. David

“All efforts of the colonialist are directed toward maintaining thsi social immobility, and racism is the surest weapon this aim. Racism appears then, not…

— Albert Memmi

“Colonialism was also justified by an elaborate ideology, embodied in everything from Kipling’s poetry and Stanley’s lectures to sermons and books about the shapes…

— Adam Hochschild

“After Egypt, Afrocentrists teach children about the glorious West African emperors, the vast lands they ruled, the civilization they achieved; not, however, about the…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

“Planters of impossibilities suddenly became planters of possibilities when instructing imported Africans on the complexities of proslavery theory, racist ideas, tobacco production, skilled trades,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Forced labor was one of the most widespread and most deeply resented of the chronic abuses to which conquered Africans were subjected.”

— Thomas Sowell

“resisting Africans were nearly always cast as violent criminals, not people reacting to enslavers’ regular brutality, or pressing for the most basic human desire:…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“European colonialism was like an aggressive virus, striving on the weak African immune system. Africans must unite or perish!!!”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“No matter what African people did, they were barbaric beasts or brutalized like beasts. If they did not clamor for freedom, then their obedience…

— Ibram X. Kendi

The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.

— Patrisse Cullors

“When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the seeds of…

— Ryszard Kapuściński