Quotes About Colonization

the Irish... qualities are hidden, besmirched, by that what has been imposed upon us, just as the fine, splendid surface of Ireland is besmirched by our towns and villages

The tribes may have been numerous, but the overall population was plummeting. When the results of the 1900 census were published, the government counted only 237,000 Indians in a country of 76 million people. This was the lowest number ever, scholars and Indian authorities said, down from perhaps as many as 10 million at the time of white contact in 1492.

Who," asked Hitler, "remembers the Red Indians?" For Hitler, Africa was the source of the imperial references but not the actual site of empire; eastern Europe was that actual site, and it was to be remade just as North America had been remade.

The last Lithuanian grand duke who even knew the Lithuanian language died the year Columbus discovered America.

It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply and try to get a life out of that.

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.

Contra los indios todas las armas se usaron con generosidad: el disparo de carabina, el incendio de sus chozas, y luego, en forma más paternal, se empleó la ley y el alcohol.

La obstinación de fray De las Casas para liberar a los indígenas de la cruel dominación de los europeos lo llevó a propugnar su reemplazo por esclavos traídos de África, como si estos no fueran seres humanos, lo que fomentará el tráfico negrero al darle sustento ideológico y religioso.

Gran Bretaña había aprendido, cuatro años después de su primera invasión, que para colonizar al Virreinato del Río de la Plata no hacían falta ni su escuadra ni sus soldados. Bastaba con dominar su comercio. Pocos años más tarde acentuaría su influencia a través del endeudamiento, para lo que contaría con la complicidad de quien fuera nuestro primer presidente. Estrategia de las grandes potencias que se perpetúa hasta hoy.

En carta del 9 de septiembre de 1817 a su londinense iniciador masónico, lord MacDuff, escribe San Martín, acongojado: "¡Qué sentimiento de dolor, mi querido amigo, debe despertar en vuestro pecho el destino de estas bellas regiones! Parecería que los españoles estuvieran empecinados en convertirlas en un desierto, tal es el carácter de la guerra que hacen. Ni edades ni sexos escapan al patíbulo".

As far as expressing the creative turmoil within my head was concerned, I took to the English language as a duck takes to water. I was therefore a keen accomplice and student in my own mental colonisation.

The Fijians, however, complained that the flesh of the whites was too salty and tough, and that a European sailor was hardly fit to eat; a Polynesian tasted better.

because of the systematic mental erasure that the settlers had undertaken.

He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?

that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and

And though they were called savages, even a prominent English general, Philip Sheridan, had to admit, "We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

Headed by Roger Conant, a man still clear to us as possessed of leadership and force, these four went southward and westward from Cape Ann and settled at a place called Naumkeag, to be better known in future as Salem.

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