Colonists Quote by William H. Wharton

“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

“When you have the solution you become a sought of pilgrim land”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves…

— Fred D'Aguiar

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers…

— Peter S. Beagle

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I…

— Donald Cargill

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to…

— John Sutter

I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with members of the Pijantjatjara and Pintupi…

— Marina Abramovic

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took…

— Paul Keating

“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526…

— Saidiya Hartman

The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us…

— Amilcar Cabral

“This restoration was preceded by a long period of preparation. The Pilgrims and other Europeans were inspired to find this American haven of refuge…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

— Albert Memmi