Quotes About Colonization

Human history is full of depressing things like colonization, disease, racism, sexism...inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon)....And through it all there has always been some truly awful food.

We weren't there to take over, we were there, in our own minds, to discover . 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.

In the 19th century, Europe invaded and colonised Africa. In the 21st century, Africa invades and colonises Europe.

The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.

Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.

Squanto engineered the survival of the Pilgrim Fathers and it was because of his help that an English-speaking society eventually prevailed there. Their own language had saved them.

O que fizeram esses brancos foi ocuparem-nos.Não foi só a terra: ocuparam-nos a nós,acamparam no meio das nossas cabeças.Somos madeira que apanhou chuva.Agora não acendemos nem damos sombra.Temos que secar à luz de um sol que ainda não há.Esse sol só pode nascer dentro de nós.

Emperors hunger for land, and their soldiers are mouths that devour nations.

África teve duas grandes tragédias: uma foi a chegada dos brancos; a outra vai ser a partida dos brancos. - Quem disse isso? - Li em qualquer lado. - Aposto que foi um branco que escreveu. Deixe que sejam os pretos a escrever sobre eles mesmos.

European colonists cleared or damaged bush because they did not value it and introduced to more than sixty-five per cent of the continent mono-cultures of non-Australian species they did value... it is our southern Eurasian ancestors... who are actually nomads because we overpopulate... damage land in the process, then wage wars on neighbours to take their land in order to continue to over-populate, and on it goes.

For decades, large sections of the Zionist movement ignored the fact that there were Arabs living in Palestine.

Cristóbal Colón fue una gran decepción. Cuando zarpó no tenía ni idea de adónde iba y cuando llegó no tenía ni idea de dónde estaba. Si quieres joder a los nativos, es mucho mejor quedarse en casa.

spaceships will soon be zooming back and forth from Earth to Mars11 in huge waves, each one loaded up with about 100 people and all their Furbies and fidget spinners and whatever else Red Planet settlers are into.

The roots of the tangled relationship between Filipinos and Americans dated back nearly fifty years, to 1898 and the Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the Spanish-American War. The treaty gave the United States control over the Philippines, much to the chagrin of the Filipino people, who ached for independence after three centuries under Spanish rule.

Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

All began in the name of Civilisation, Christianity, Commerce and then Colonisation.

Most of the leaders are still haunted by the nightmares of slavery, mostly mental colonisation in general.

The impact of colonization caused the delay in the evolution of mankind. The mental capacity of man has been reduced to that of animals. So let's break this mental slavery and the decolonization of the Will.

The takeover of the Amerindians appears to them as the beginning of the Apocalypse.

which I draw is European. Even the form in which I write is European. Arguably, one of the most familiar memes of science fiction is that of going to foreign countries and colonizing the natives, and as I've said elsewhere, for many of us, that's not a thrilling adventure story; it's non-fiction, and we are on the wrong side of the strange-looking ship that appears out of nowhere.

British colonists promoted a dual agenda: one involved reducing poverty back in England, and the other called for transporting the idle and unproductive to the New World. After

In this sense, what Hakluyt foresaw in a colonized America was one giant workhouse. This cannot be emphasized enough.

Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting. We have to begin, then, with the first refusal to face reality: most colonizing schemes that took root in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America were built on privilege and subordination, not any kind of proto-democracy

Waste men and waste women (and especially waste children, the adolescent boys who comprised a majority of the indentured servants) were an expendable class of laborers who made colonization possible.