Quotes About Colonization

This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets of passage were rescinded and the bailiffs of God took back the papers of their soles.

Indians paid, in other words, for the privilege of being conquered by the British.

I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere, and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.

The parallel is inescapable: General Scott is Cortés, and General Santa Anna is Montezuma; the two acts of surrender in Mexico City echo, illuminate, and legitimize each other, representing resonant moments in the march of progress that is "American" history.

The clash of civilizations, the conquest wars, the protracted process of colonization are all eclipsed and elided into a single symbolic moment.

In Congo, a slashed jungle quickly becomes a field of flowers, and scars become the ornaments of a particular face. Call it oppression, complicity, stupefaction, call it what you like, it doesn't matter. Africa swallowed the conqueror's music and sang a new song of her own.

What's with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians? I said, not really asking for an answer. I thought again of the history-book pictures. Astronomers and brain surgeons. They should have done brain surgery on Columbus while they had the chance.

It is testimony to the importance of beer in their story that the brewery was the first permanent building the Pilgrims constructed.

A dirty secret of the conservation movement is that wilderness preserves are set up only after indigenous peoples have been decimated or forcibly removed from them, including the national parks in the United States and the Serengeti in East Africa.

Why spend money and blood to invade a country and plunder its treasure when you can just buy it from them at less expense and sell them some of your own?

Los españoles cargaron con la vajilla y las mujeres y destruyeron el Gran Teocali. Destruyeron además la sociedad azteca, que estuvo dividida en las siguientes clases: nobles, sacerdotes, guerreros, mercaderes, macehuales y esclavos; e hicieron una nueva división: vencedores y vencidos, que se conservó, aunque con otros nombres, hasta el tiempo de Porfirio Díaz, en el que estas dos clases sociales se llamaron, respectivamente, 'la gente decente y los pelados'.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Los blancos hicieron que estas tierras fueran extranjeras para el indio; hicieron que el indio comprara con su sangre el aire que respira.

A newborn's immune system is underdeveloped, which is convenient because it allows for colonization by Mom's bacteria, but it's also why young children are prone to infection.

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

Well, Sir, what have we done for them? Have we conquered the country for them from the Indians? Have we cleared it? Have we drained it? Have we made it habitable? What have we done for them? I believe precisely nothing at all, but just keeping watch and ward over their trade, that they should receive nothing but from ourselves, and at our own price.

The whites have shown themselves capable of great brutality toward the Indians of the Northern Plains. The Americans should expect the same in return.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.