Quotes About Colonialism

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

Our nonviolence vis-?-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

A Peace to End All Peace.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

The idea that the Natives must all be removed and confined in their own kraals is in my opinion the greatest nonsense I have ever heard.

how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

Translation has been used, and should be used, to resist or redirect colonial or postcolonial power.

goods—sugar, tobacco, rice, and indigo, a purple dye—to sell in Europe.

It is significant that racism is part of colonialism throughout the world; and it is no coincidence. Racism sums up and symbolizes the fundamental relation which unites colonialist and colonized.