Quotes About Colonization

When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.

Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it. Gene Roddenberry

Ironically Britain claimed the whole continent simply in order to claim a few isolated harbours astride trade routes. It was like a speculator who, buying a huge wasteland flanking a highway because it had a few fine sites for road cafes and filling stations, found later that much of the land was fertile and productive.

In 1858, when the emperor had two missionaries executed, France sent a fleet to seize the port of Danang. French naval forces took Saigon the following year and then forced the emperor to cede the three surrounding provinces to them. Over the four decades that followed, French forces captured Hue and Hanoi and steadily extended their power and influence until the French colonial government could officially declare in 1900 that the "pacification of Indochina" was complete.

The English were the predominant group numerically among the Australian colonists and their ideas and customs gave the new Australia its chief characteristics ... Yet the English majority dissolved into unhyphenated Australians even more quickly than the minorities.

George Armstrong Custer

It would be interesting to imagine the outcome if all Indians had cooperated and rallied against the Europeans. But that was impossible. The continent was vast and the Indians knew the place where they lived and the immediate neighboring nations, but they did not know places far away. They did not all speak the same language or worship the same gods. And like people everywhere, they feared each other more than they feared the new stranger.

The colonization of space is the only possible salvation of Earth.

Those native peoples were confounded by the mystery of the crucified man the whites worshipped, and they could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

Comprobaréis, señora, que los conquistadores carecen de vergüenza: llegan como mendigos, se comportan como ladrones y se creen señores.

Tampoco entendían que los extranjeros plantaran una bandera en el suelo, marcaran líneas imaginarias, lo declararan de su propiedad y se ofendieran si alguien entraba persiguiendo a un venado. La idea de poseer la tierra les resultaba tan inverosímil como la de repartirse el mar.

The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.

Inés Suárez (1507-1580), española, nacida en Plasencia, viajó al Nuevo Mundo en 1537 y participó en la conquista de Chile y la fundación de la ciudad de Santiago. Tuvo gran influencia política y poder económico. Las hazañas de Inés Suárez, mencionadas por los cronistas de su época, fueron casi olvidadas por los historiadores durante más de cuatrocientos años.

pretendieron regalarle ropa a Valdivia y otros capitanes, pero no hay peor ofensa para un español que recibir caridad.

Los cronistas siempre olvidan mencionarlos, pero sin esas masas silenciosas de indios amigos, que seguían a los españoles en sus empresas y guerras, la conquista del Nuevo Mundo habría sido imposible.

Contaban los españoles que muchos indios practicaban la sodomía, que en España se paga con la muerte, aunque los incas la habían prohibido. Buena prueba de la lujuria de esa gente eran las cerámicas eróticas que los aventureros mostraban en las tabernas para regocijo de los parroquianos, quienes no sospechaban que se pudiese holgar de tan variadas maneras. Aseguraban que las madres rompían la virginidad de sus hijas con los dedos antes de entregarlas

Los hombres más peligros que he visto por estos lados no son indios, sino traficantes de armas drogas y diamantes, caucheros, buscadores de oro, soldados, y madereros, que infectan y explotan esta región —rebatió el sacerdote y agregó que los indios eran primitivos en lo material, pero muy avanzados en el plano mental, que estaban conectados a la naturaleza, como un hijo a su madre.

Pretenden que aceptemos su dios clavado en una cruz, dios de la muerte, que nos sometamos a su rey, que no vive aquí y no conocemos, quieren ocupar nuestra tierra y que seamos sus esclavos. ¿Por qué?, pregunto yo a la gente. Por nada, hermanos. No aprecian la libertad. No entienden de orgullo, obedecen, ponen las rodillas en tierra, inclinan la cabeza. No saben de justicia ni de retribución.

Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.

When the white man came, we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian