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Quotes About Colonization

Christopher Columbus himself established the template for the newcomers' view of the aboriginal population. "They ought to make good and skilled servants," he wrote; "I think they can very easily be made Christians. … I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men, and govern them as I please.
~ Unknown
By 1800 the U.S. Indian population stood at about 600,000, a pathetic remnant of the estimated 2.2 million on the eve of European colonization.
~ Unknown
NASA considered the possibility of using fungi for interplanetary colonization. Now that we have landed rovers on Mars, NASA takes seriously the unknown consequences that our microbes will have on seeding other planets. Spores have no borders.
~ Paul Stamets
D had formed the committee a few months before, part of a new effort to combat the old problem of just who had a right to Kenya, and why. White settlers had always been keen on self-rule, which amounted to something more like total domination of the territory.
~ Paula McLain
The Indians are what we have made them," said Dr. Reed. "Every war between us and the red man has been precipitated by broken treaties. If they have attacked the settlers, it is because we have made them what they are.
~ Paulette Jiles
Oh, I think we want to try some unusual methods in dealing with the Indian people. Honesty. Honoring our treaties with them. We will not use the military. Not on my agency.
~ Paulette Jiles
No passado, os grandes homens da Europa em sessões magnas, festins e banhos de champanhe dividiram o continente negro em grandes e boas fatias, escravizaram, torturaram, massacraram e deportaram as almas destas terras. Hoje, gente oriunda das antigas potências colonizadoras diz que dá a sua mão desinteressada para ajudar os que sofrem. É preciso acreditar na mudança
~ Unknown
Filipinler ilk ke?fedilen topraklar aras?nda yer al?yordu.
~ Unknown
Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten
~ Peter Carey
I do not wonder, and you will not either, that when Indians see their wives and children starving and their last source of supplies cut off, they go to war. And then we are sent out there to kill them. It is an outrage. All tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away, they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do—fight while they can. Our treatment of the Indian is an outrage.
~ Unknown
There must be so many humans spread across the galaxy now; it isn't hard to think they found one star that's safe from the enemy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.
~ Peter F. Hamilton