Accumulation Quote by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period…

— Karl Marx

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into…

— Karl Marx

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and…

— Bernard Bailyn

“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and…

— Jack Weatherford

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In…

— Howard Zinn

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it…

— Garet Garrett

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others -…

— Anonymous

“They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only…

— Joseph Conrad

“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that…

— Ayn Rand

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

“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could…

— Charles C. Mann