Quotes About Colonial

The denial with which many African leaders and communities greeted the appearance of HIV and AIDS across the continent in the 1990s is now considered a tragic mistake rather than a purposeful pushback against lingering colonial prejudice.

Living in Virginia required suffering what residents called a "seasoning"—that is, "two or three small fits of a feaver and ague," as one settler wrote in 1687.20

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

American independence dates from the throwing of tea-chests into Boston harbour.

Italy has no colonial past in Iran.

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.

Citizens of Boston had been slain, but Boston juries acquitted all the soldiers of murder.

The growth and improvement of New York was a wonderful example of the vast and irrevocable benefits reaped by the English empire during the four years when England was at peace and her rivals were at war. Yet in every other English colony, from the Carolinas northward, the immeasurable disasters of the great Algonquin wars set colonial development back by more than thirty years. New York alone was spared. New York alone had Andros.

I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then a small, well-run colonial institution and not the global colossus it is today.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

It was a raw country, and the first generations of colonial women did things that their granddaughters would have found unthinkable.

The British were highly skilled counterfeiters, and one of their favorite ways to attack the Americans was by depreciating colonial currency.

More than half the colonists who came to the North American shores in the colonial period came as servants.

No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class.

THE  FIRST thing that struck Bond about Saratoga was the green majesty of the elms, which gave the discreet avenues of Colonial-type clapboard houses some of the peace and serenity of a European watering place.

The geographer Oren Yiftachel from Ben-Gurion University, depicted Israel as an ethnocracy, a regime governing a mixed ethnic state with a legal and formal preference for one ethnic group over all the others. Others went further, labeling Israel an apartheid state or a settler colonial state. In short, whatever description these critical scholars offered, democracy was not among them.

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

Guatemalan Antigua.

There is no understanding Englishness without understanding its imperial and colonial dimensions.

A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy.

Deerfield, Massachusetts February 29, 1704 Temperature 0 degrees Eben's moccasins were lined with thick black fur. His boots were abandoned at the edge of the trail. Eben thought of Deerfield men getting this far in pursuit and finding a hundred pairs of shoes.

What a charming place!" Bess remarked, as they reached a small, white, two-story colonial house surrounded by a white picket fence with a gate. Flowers, especially old-fashioned American varieties, grew in profusion in the front yard.

Widespread cultural suffering for Métis people began around the time when the fur trade was nearing its end and the colonial period was beginning (Mackie, 1996) - p. 38