Quotes About Colonization

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

A man's world, but a white man's planet.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

In most of the world, Magellan is thought of as the first guy who went around the world. Here, everyone knows he only made it as far as Mactan Island, where he was killed by Filipinos.

Listen up, because living off-planet might lie ahead.

If we want to turn Africa into a new Europe ... then let us leave the destiny of our countries to Europeans. They will know how to do it better than the most gifted among us.'25

The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?

En la práctica el dinero invertido en una colonia de iure como la India (o en una colonia en todo sentido, excepto el nombre como Egipto) era mucho más seguro que invertir en una colonia de facto como Argentina.

También explica por qué Gran Bretaña pudo superar a sus rivales ibéricos: precisamente porque, por ser una recién llegada a la carrera imperial, tuvo que dedicarse a colonizar los pocos prometedores páramos de Virginia y Nueva Inglaterra, antes que las ciudades de México y Perú, donde el saqueo estaba a la orden del día.

Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close to exporting so many of its inhabitants.

Colonization proposals were crafted by intellectuals, reformers, and politicians--men (and occasionally women) who saw themselves as liberal in their sentiments. To be liberal in the early United States involved specific beliefs and actions: it meant that you embraced the rational thought of the Enlightenment, that you manifested a Christian benevolence to others, and most importantly, that you were determined to reject the temptations of prejudice.

In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized. And when you have colonization, what do you have? You have anti-colonization.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

What we do to our native Australians, our own indigenous people, is nothing short of horrific.