Quotes About Colonialism

Apa guna belajar ilmu dan pengetahuan Eropa, bergaul dengan orang-orang Eropa, kalau akhirnya toh harus merangkak, beringsut seperti keong dan menyembah seorang raja kecil yang barang kali buta huruf pula! God, God! Menghadap bupati sama dengan bersiap menampung penghinaan tanpa boleh membela diri. Tak pernah aku memaksa orang lai berbuat semacam itu terhadapku. Mengapa harus kulakukan untuk orang lain? Sambar gledek!

Banyak Pribumi yang mengimpi jadi Belanda, dan gadis yang lebih banyak bertampang Eropa ini lebih suka mengaku Pribumi.

Uh, Hindia, negeri yang hanya dapat menunggu-nunggu hasil kerja Eropa!

Eropa gila sama dengan Pribumi gila.

Satu-satunya bukti pembesar Jawa tidak berniat punya harem hanya dengan beristri orang Eropa, Totok atau Indo. Dengannya ia tak bakal bermadu.

Nyai Ontosoroh: Tapi di depan hukum kau tak bakal menang. Kau menghadapi orang Eropa, Nyo. Sampai-sampai jaksa dan hakim akan mengeroyok kau, dan kau tak punya pengalaman pengadilan. Tidak semua pokrol dan advokat bisa dipercaya, apalagi kalau soalnya Pribumi menggugat Eropa.

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin.

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

One of the greatest things that could really happen to Africa is for us to get rid of the borders and for the leadership not to think that the countries belong to them... We didn't create the borders to start with.

Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

Jallianwala Bagh's dead and dying spent the 13th night with dogs and vultures.

Beginning with 1 August 1920, titles were returned, thousands of students across India left the Raj's colleges, hundreds of lawyers turned their backs on the Raj's courts and, in November, prominent politicians boycotted the elections to the new provincial councils.

the Empire was naturally attracted towards the foes of its chief Indian foe, the Congress

In 1919, when loyalist Sikhs were willing, even after the Amritsar massacre, to honour Dyer, other Sikhs formed a new pro-independence body, the Sikh League, with the Sialkot-born Baba Kharak Singh (1868-1963), who had been galvanized by the massacre, as its chief.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

one moment and bright the next. When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all of them armed to the teeth, had gone to the house, this chap came on board. 'I say, I don't like this. These natives are in the bush,' I said. He assured me earnestly it was all right. 'They are simple

A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run.

arrested me, and he stood by civilly, holding a half-pint champagne bottle (medical comforts) with the candle stuck in it. To my question he said Mr. Kurtz had painted this—in this very station more than a year ago—while waiting for means to go to his trading-post. 'Tell me, pray,' said I, 'who is this Mr. Kurtz?