Quotes About Colonization

The India that the British East India Company conquered was no primitive or barren land, but the glittering jewel of the medieval world.

control. The people's character is deliberately debased, their mind is denationalized and perpetually kept in ignorance and fed with stories of England's greatness and 'mission' in the world… As Pankaj Mishra has observed: European subordination of Asia was not merely economic and political and military. It was also intellectual and moral and spiritual: a completely different kind of conquest than had been witnessed before, which

Well of course man. We Indians have lost everything. We lost our native land, we lost our languages, we lost our songs and dances. We lost each other. We only know how to lose and be lost.

I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture.

Of course, ever since white people showed up and brought along their Christianity and their fears of eccentricity, Indians have gradually lost all of their tolerance.

Imagine Columbus landed in 1492 and some tribe or another drowned him in the ocean. Would Lester FallsApart still be shoplifting in the 7-11?

How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt?

Being colonized automatically makes you bipolar.

Doesn't an Indian tribe finally surrender to colonization by becoming as capitalistic as our conquerors? Isn't indigenous economic sovereignty one of the sneakiest damn oxymorons of all time?

Hey, Dad," I said. "What do Indians have to be so thankful for?" "We should give thanks that they didn't kill all of us." We laughed like crazy.

We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture.

She knew Indians were obsessed with authenticity. Colonized, genocided, exiled, Indians formed their identities by questioning the identities of other Indians. Self-hating

Jesus, Junior said, all these years since Columbus landed and now he's finally decided to fuck me in the ass.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.

destroyed above 12,000,000 of souls upon the continent of America, in the space of forty years.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

But apart from that, I was amazed by how little the language had penetrated the place – given, after all, that we Brits had been running the colony for 150 years. Other groups you might well have expected to speak English were, as a rule, remarkable for being monoglot Cantonese:

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

Vincent Katherinessen, the Old Earth Colonial Coalition's velvet-gloved iron hand, for too field-effective to the categorized as a mere diplomatic envoy no matter how his passport was coded.

The white men are landing. Cannons! Now we must be baptized, get dressed, and go to work. My heart has been stabbed by grace. Ah! I hadn't thought this would happen!

Ahí se explican muchos males de la España de entonces y de la futura, cuya clave quizá esté en la muy española carta que el loco y criminal conquistador Lope de Aguirre le dirigió a Felipe II poco antes de morir ejecutado: Mira que no puedes llevar con título de rey justo ningún interés destas partes donde no aventuraste nada, sin que primero los que en esta tierra han trabajado y sudado sean gratificados.

el Imperio español incluía Alemania, Austria, Suiza, los Países Bajos, y parte de Francia y de Checoslovaquia. Y