Quotes About Colonization

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the Indians were foolish, and divided, and failed to keep our WASP ancestors out. They've regretted it ever since.

Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!

How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.

Ninth-grade U.S. history: Not to hurt feelings but that chapter you assigned? That was all "Columbus is great," "The Indians sure loved Thanksgiving," "Let's brainwash everyone." I found way better stuff at the library

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

The scheme of English colonization made no account of the Indian tribes. In the scheme of French colonization they were all in all.

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him. Francis Parkman

Next time we meet it'll be on the soil of your new world.

the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.

All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.

When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

The history of colonisation cannot disappear.

And they're doing this without the knowledge or informed permission of the people whose lives they have colonized—and who are at present without means to escape the surveillance capitalists' web.

Carthage, in modern Tunisia, had grown from its origins as a Phoenician settlement

As Plato had noticed, when Greeks left their homeland to establish communities abroad

You see, deep in their hearts they're convinced that a colonization that doesn't end in a seditious movement and massacres is not a successful colonization. Perhaps they're right, in a way.

On a universal scale the civilized were the colonizers and the uncivilized were the colonized.

They drew their water from sloughs or tiny springs, lighted their homes with kerosene. Yet here they were, each person, presenting themselves in worn immaculate clothing. As Indians had for generation after generation, they were attempting to understand a white man reading endlessly from a sheaf of papers.

Wonder what?" "If one of them will ever say, Gee, those damn Indians might have had an idea or two. Shouldn't have got rid of them all. Maybe we missed out." Louis laughed. Thomas laughed. They laughed together at the idea.