Quotes About Colonialism

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

ofi?erii B?ncii Mondiale ?i ai FMI, care predic? înc? despre valoarea unui b?nu? acelora?i popula?ii pe care puteile dominante ale lumii le-au jefuit ?i s?r?cit vreme de secole.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

Genet suggested that colonialism would crumble from the weight of its ignorance, its arrogance and greed, and that the oppressed would take over the positions of their former masters. They would be no better, no more courageous and no more merciful.

Why should I be afraid of you?' He was still laughing. He said 'Maybe you think I'll think you are a missionary and I'll eat you.' I said 'I don't think that anyway. If more Africans had eaten more missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

Image letting some white woman rename you for her convenience.

Imagine letting some white woman rename you for her convenience.

Smohalla, a Wanapum prophet from the Pacific Northwest, exhorted his followers to abandon all the ways of the white man and not to plough or harvest or work in any way, "because men who work cannot dream.")

As colonialism expanded over Asia, the image of China evolved from that of a model of enlightened government to that of a decadent, apathetic, and racially inferior country.

This town) doesn't look like anything; it isn't anything. Its five tin-roofed huts cling to the skinny tracks of the Uganda Railway like parasites on a vine.

There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

In 1770, the British East India Company – the world's first multinational corporation – increased the taxes it forcibly collected on crops, and ten million people, a third of Bengal, starved to death.

He chuckles at his own joke. No one wants the Jews. Not even America. Americans have no right to criticize us. They rounded up their Indians, you know. Put them on reservations.

Whether V. be the eternal feminine of Goethe or the great Goddess of Graves, symptom or cause of the chaos of the twentieth century, blighter or ghastly redeemer of the waste land, Western Civilization, as Pynchon sees it, is caught in a dying fall. Randomly dispersed natural energies, creeping inanimateness, rampant colonialism and racism, expiring romanticism, perverted sexuality, degenerate politics, and holocaustic wars have turned the Western world into a waste land.

De manera que Cervantes quería ir a Colombia. No lo logró: en el reverso de su propio memorial, el Consejo de Indias escribió las nueve palabras crueles que constituyeron su única respuesta: " Busque por acá en que se le haga merced

As Americans gained a new belief in their manifest destiny around the globe, Hawaiians lost their country, the first sovereign nation to become a casualty of America's imperial outreach.

dark Africa and take up cannibalism

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

There's much about the British Raj which I think is disreputable. It was rapacious; it was a sort of kleptocracy, and it was also racist. Indians were not treated as equals.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts.

From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this is very clear. Like every other western empire that has ever existed, Americans may claim to have inherited the mantle of ancient Rome.

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.