Quotes About Colonization

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 too much. What redeems it is the idea only.

Pero ellos no tenían nada en que apoyarse. No eran colonizadores, y sospecho que su administración no era más que una opresión, solo eso.

La conquista de la tierra, que por lo general consiste en arrebatársela a quienes tienen una tez de color distinto o narices ligeramente más chatas que las nuestras, no es nada agradable cuando se observa con atención. Lo

efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

Within a few generations we had gone from being nearly one hundred percent of the population of this continent to less than one-half of one percent. We were all haunted.

You might try dancing theory with a bustle, or a jingle dress, or with turtles strapped around your legs. You might try wearing colonization like a heavy gold chain around a pimp's neck.

We tried to pretend war wasn't going to happen. Though they began building their houses all around us and demanding more. They started teaching our children their god's story, A story in which we'd always be slaves.

Spanish encouraged racial intermarriage with the indigenous peoples of America. Anglo-Americans were usually intolerant of it. they were generally able to secure wives of English descent, whereas the Spanish American colonies were extremely unattractive to Spanish women.

Captain Thomas Walduck in 1708 neatly summarized the development of the West Indies: "Upon all the new settlements the Spaniards make, the first thing they do is build a church, the first thing ye Dutch do upon a new colony is to build them a fort, but the first thing ye English do, be it in the most remote part of ye world, or amongst the most barbarous Indians, is to set up a tavern or drinking house.

India itself is an import, or if you prefer, Africa outsourced India.

The Mexicans gave the Spaniards malaria, and the Spaniards gave the Mexicans smallpox, whooping cough, diphtheria, and syphilis. The Spaniards believed it was better to give than to receive.

Muito recentemente é que nós estamos conquistando espaço para podermos contar a história segundo o nosso olhar, o olhar dos indígenas, ou seja, sob uma visão de mundo particular. Não se pode pensar que a nossa história segue o mesmo percurso da ocidental. E isso é um outro nó, que necessita ser desatado.

Os [povos] que aqui estavam eram falantes do tupi, língua que depois foi aprendida pelos colonizadores e missionários e se tornou oficial até o século XVIII, quando foi proibida pelo Marquês de Pombal.

índios" foram, na verdade, uma invenção dos colonizadores a fim de reduzi-los e escravizá-los.

Índios' foram, na verdade, uma invenção dos colonizadores a fim de reduzi-los e escravizá-los. [...] Ao reduzi-los, dominaram; ao dominá-los, enfraqueceram valentes civilizações. Tudo isso contido em uma única palavra: índio.

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

Translation is the opposite of empire

The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.

modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in imperial rhetoric, as a "civilizing mission.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

I hated to have us take the Philippines, but I don't see how in the world we can give them up.

Which reminds me -' 'The new ladies have arrived,' said Adam grimly. 'Guaranteed of clean stock, and inured to Russian practices. Osep has announced himself suited.' 'For the time being,' said Danny, open-eyed. 'That's ten since Pitsligo. Do you think it is a subversive attempt at colonization, or the long Russian nights that ought to be setting in about now in Vologda?' 'We shall have to wait till the spring,' Adam said, 'to find out.

The ultimate offense was the idea that Europeans "discovered" the New World to begin with, as if the people living here didn't exist before Europeans saw them.