Quotes About Colonization

Earth was the first planet to be terraformed.

The Indian, in truth, no longer has a country. He is reduced to starvation or to warring to the death. The Indian´s first demand is that the white man shall not drive off his game and dispossesses him of his lands. How can we promise this unless we prohibit emigration and settlement...The end is sure and dreadful to contemplate. General John Pope

If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.

Estoy convencido de que los humanos necesitamos dejar la Tierra para evitar correr el riesgo de ser aniquilados.

Esto no debería preocuparnos demasiado, puesto que para entonces, a menos que tengamos colonias más allá del sistema solar, la humanidad habrá desaparecido hace tiempo, extinguida con la muerte de nuestro Sol.

When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.

As the colonial insects did to the other insects, we have pushed all other mammals to the margins, to extinction, or to servitude.

desconectó dichos archivos primero, ocultó su origen después y, por último, juzgó negativamente a las culturas originarias

Si una colonia, poscolonia, nación o cultura dependiente intenta seguir la misma ruta europea, nunca llegará a la Modernidad, sino a un aumento de su propia miseria y dependencia colonial.

America: the name itself is synonymous with imperialism - you've taken the name of two entire continents & claimed it as your own, & shut out anyone else from using it.

Give up Spanish, give up anything in the language that broke our hearts. Do not be tempted by English, the language that breaks our souls. Speak only in the tongue of tongues before any white man came.

Strange things are happening to us.''To our children.''They say he is looking for the spirit of Independence.''They say he is looking for himself.''For his own spirit.''Which he lost when the white man came.

The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.

Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.

If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

while the Spanish Philippines became our first Asian real estate and the inspiration for close to a century now of disastrous American adventures in that part of the world.

Immigration has tremendously changed the fabric of this country. Immigration is what built our NHS, when Britain invited people from the Commonwealth, from nations it had formerly colonized, in order to rebuild this country after the ravages of the Second World War.

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

When you colonise someone's dream, that's the worst thing you can do.

forty-one of the 102 passengers signed the Mayflower Compact, agreeing to establish a colony dedicated to God's glory and the advancement of the Christian faith.19