Quotes About Colonization

It is not by chance that there exists in Haiti the myth of the zombi, that is, of the living-dead, the man whose mind and soul have been stolen and who has been left only the ability to work… The history of colonization is the process of man's general zombification. It is also the quest for a revitalizing salt capable of restring to man the use of his imagination and his culture

Captain Myles Standish

Like strangler figs choking a banyan, not an explorer, no imperialist, not one of us, in taking what we pleased—in colonizing as the saying is—has been a synonym for mercy.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

The suffering of the conquered and colonized people appears as a necessary sacrifice and the inevitable process of modernization. This logic has been applied from the conquest of America until the Gulf War, and its victims are as diverse as indigenous Americans and Iraqi Civilians. Enriqué Dussel, The Invention of the Americas

Waikïkï is less Hawaiian than it is a bad mix of Las Vegas and Cancun.

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space...We are destined to explore and colonize the universe.

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalism and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.

I've never been on a contract on an uninhabited planet because if I was on the planet on a contract then we'd be inhabiting it.)

He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement' ('Humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset').

They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement

these white people have lost their own gods and mislaid their souls. They have trouble dealing with reality, with death.

Fourteen billion dollars in gold alone have been taken out of our sacred land and they offer us 120 million in compensation!

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.

a young Indian in our little Datsun chased one of the government's huge armored cars. He was banging on the armor with a stick, "counting coup." The

White men invented whiskey and brought it to America. They manufacture, advertise, and sell it to us. They make the profit on it and cause the conditions that make Indians drink in the first place.

The men who had brought us whiskey and the smallpox had come with the cross in one hand and the gun in the other.

Between 1870 and 1880 all Sioux were driven into reservations, fenced in and forced to give up everything that had given meaning to their life—their horses, their hunting, their arms, everything.

I don't know whether I am a louse under the white man's skin. I hope I am.

Three thousand Russian families were sent to colonize Azof,

Staph colonization is remarkable. There is no other disease-causing bacterium that is carried, without causing infection, by such a substantial slice of the population. The

And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.