Quotes About Colonization

By March 6, 1521, the fleet reached the island of Guam

In the Philippines, Magellan blundered into a confrontation with a combative local chieftain, Lapu Lapu.

The grant of lands, for instance, proved more generous than Magellan had any right to expect.

new economic possibilities for any European nation able to master the seas.

rather than establishing their own foreign trading empires.

And then another conquest began-that of the British.

Much of this world vanished after Columbus, swept away by disease and subjugation. So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed.

Voltaire, Locke, Rousseau, and Hobbes never had a chance to speak with these men or even know of their existence—and here, at last, we begin to appreciate the enormity of the calamity, for the distintegration of native America was a loss not just to those societies but to the human enterprise as a whole.

How could the colonists starve in the midst of plenty? One reason was that the English feared leaving Jamestown to fish, because Powhatan's fighters were waiting outside the colony walls. A second reason was that a startlingly large proportion of the colonists were gentlemen, a status defined by not having to perform manual labor.

I think we're property. I should say we belong to something: That once upon a time, this earth was No-man's Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it's owned by something: That something owns this earth -- all others warned off.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

sobre la necesidad de proteger y difundir la herbolaria indígena como una práctica médica válida. Podrías reclamar los derechos de los mapuches en la Araucanía frente a las invasiones de sus tierras por colonos blancos. Defenderías la preservación de las lenguas nativas.

Nos hiciste ver que la injusticia no solo derivaba de un conflicto de clases, sino también de razas. «La democracia real», sostenías, «solo podrá obtenerse cuando los pueblos originarios alcancen el poder político. La revolución socialista será ineficaz en los países colonizados por los blancos si no se garantiza el acceso a gobernar a quienes les arrebataron sus tierras».

The oldest city in the United States is St. Augustine, Florida, founded by Spaniards in 1565,

The oldest American capital is Santa Fe, founded in 1609, over 150 years before the United States was even born and almost 250 before the United States eventually conquered what's now the Southwest from Mexico.

went across the more civilized Third

An analytic colleague, Alden Josey, once employed the telling metaphor that secretly "we wish to colonize the other," and like most imperial powers, we are flush with rationalizations to justify our agendas of self-interest.

In fourteen hundred and ninety-three, Columbus stole all he could see.

Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?