Quotes About Colonization

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

What the English government and investors expected from their colony in America was a strong return for their past investments, accompanied by an unquestioning obedience.

And he pointed out that Shona (his native tongue) in its written form was covered with the white man's fingerprints — it was, after all, missionaries who standardized it and rendered it onto the page, largely to facilitate their Christian proselytizing, which often functioned as the Trojan horse leading to full-blown indigenous cultural servitude.

We may become the first species to spread beyond the limits of the Earth and colonize other planets.

In our time we maintain colonies on Mars, on Luna; we're perfecting workable interstellar flight—these people have not been able to cope with the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma. This

The island was said to be "completely covered with pigeons." Thousands of them fattened on the raspberries, and the settlers fed on the pigeons.16

the Mayflower landed not in a virgin land but a widowed land. Epidemic disease had already nearly emptied a long stretch of coastline that once thronged with people.

As a final objection to Blair's entreaty, Douglass once again addressed the pernicious effects of colonization, which he saw as proslavery theory in disguise. Douglass insisted that slavery, racism, and future black equality be discussed as a single question, to be settled on American soil within American institutions.

Here it was again: colonization theory, gilded by the image of Jefferson, determined by God, driven by white supremacy while claiming otherwise, and callously argued by a member of Lincoln's cabinet.

The debate over colonization always came back, as in these testimonies, to its root: the American struggle over white supremacy.

He saw that the highest compliment a white Englishman can give himself is the assertion that he is "color-blind," by which he means he has been able to overlook the fact of your color—to look past it—to the "you" beneath. Not content with colonizing your country, he now colonizes your self

One strong man and one weak is a colony, Sapper Jones," said Samad.

He saw that the highest compliment a white Englishman can give himself is the assertion that he is "color-blind," by which he means he has been able to overlook the fact of your color—to look past it—to the "you" beneath. Not content with colonizing your country, he now colonizes your self. So

Indians don't know much uh nothin', tuh tell de truth. Else dey'd own dis country still.

The attack on Syria has begun, they are accusing President Assad of killing his people. And the Yankees want to come in and bomb the people in order to save them. What shameless cynicism. It's a new strategy they've invented, to generate violent armed conflicts and spill blood in a country in order to then bomb it and intervene and take ownership of its natural resources and convert it into a colony.

It wouldn't be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet

wouldnt be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet.

Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil

A more damned crew hell never vomited," the Virginia Company president later said of them.

Misssions and the California Mission system should not be regarded as a symbol of a golden era in California's history. Missions should be regarded for what they were, as death camps- where people were enslaved, tortured and murdered.

Let us emphasize instead that owing to complex, uneven material histories of colonization and the oppression of racialized groups within the United States, the sites of minority or colonized literary production are at different distances from the canonical nationalist project of reconciling constituencies to idealized forms of community and subjectivity.

At the bluff above the river, which Iberville considered a good spot for a settlement, he saw a red stick, the maypole used by the Indians for hanging up offerings of fish and game. Iberville called the place Baton Rouge.

We had not chosen to be debased by the French, to be divided by them into an unholy trinity of north, center, and south, to be turned over to the great powers of capitalism and communism for a further bisection, then given roles as the clashing armies of a Cold War chess match played in air-conditioned rooms by white men wearing suits and lies. No,

Colonies were a pearl choker adorning the alabaster-white neck of the colonizer