Quotes About Colonialism

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today's Namibia. The killing there was masked by no smokescreen of talk about philanthropy. It was genocide, pure and simple, starkly announced in advance.

Dr. Sheppard has not only stood before kings, but he has also stood against them. In pursuit of his mission of serving his race in its native land, this son of a slave . . . has dared to withstand all the power of Leopold.

Of the riches Leopold hoped to find in the Congo, the one that gleamed most brightly in his imagination was ivory.

Oui, elle voulait avoir un enfant clair parce que cela représentait a l'époque une sorte de supériorité, c'était bête, mais c'était une part de notre complexe vis-a-vis des Blancs, tout ce qui était blanc était meilleur, tout ce qui était noir était maudit, sans avenir, sans lendemain

No one can dispute that. He was a good man, a kind man. "But you know, so was my husband Keo. So were hundreds of other men who lived and died here. Yet sometimes it seems the world is more moved by the death of one white priest than by the passing of hundreds, thousands, of Hawaiians. Everyone knows Damien's name now, but will anyone remember these girls, other than you and me?

I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.

No, the Indian mutineers may have surrendered, but I did not. If I work with the British, it is because I no longer feel even Indian. The sea, now, is my only nation.

You Englishmen,' said Herr Wurter. 'You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

I who am poisoned with the blood of both,Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?I who have cursedThe drunken officer of British rule, how chooseBetween this Africa and the English tongue I love?

White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

When asked about the extent to which the British decision to quit India was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's 1942 movement, Attlee's lips widened in smile of disdain and he uttered, slowly, "Minimal."5

Había dicho al principio que los hombres de la época de Funes tenían dos caras, dos existencias, una colonial, otra republicana.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

War tore the guts out of the British empire, weakening it in resources and morale. The first major loss was Ireland.

In 1859 a woman was raped by five apparent Indians, although she was able to identify her attackers as white men because, in the words of a government report on the incident, "They had not taken the precaution to paint the whole body." We

The monarchy continued this tradition, and it migrated to America as soon as there was profit to be had.

As a Free Trader, he was convinced by Mayo's detailed arguments, supported by a large quantity of evidence, that far from Britain being an economic drain on India, trade had been mutually beneficial.117 The fact that almost all the richest people in India were Indian merchants or princes, not Britons, struck him as further evidence that the British were not the exploitative colonialists of other European empires in Asia and Africa.

A country like my own, Britain – which still occupies Gilbraltar captured in the 18th century, the Falklands captured in the 19th century and the Channel Islands which belonged to France until 1468, and rightly so in each case – is being absurdly hypocritical when it criticises Israel for retaining territory vital to her survival, which Gilbraltar, the Falklands and the Channel Island certainly aren't to Britain's.

I could have defended the British Empire against anyone,' he told an aide later on, 'except the British people.

When Churchill was twenty, the British Empire covered more than one-fifth of the earth's land surface