Quotes About Colonialism

They speak like that because they're afraid of the Irish language coming back and killing everybody in the country this time. He [my father] says Irish people drink too much and talk too much and don't want to speak Irish, because it stinks of poverty and dead people left lying in the fields. That's why they speak posh English and pretend that nothing ever happened.

The British response to the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising between 1936 and 1939 was devastating. Britain stormed all of Palestine once more, killing more than five thousand Palestinians and wounding more than fifteen thousand others. It exiled and executed the Palestinian leadership. In addition, it organized death squads made up of British soldiers and Zionist forces known as 'special night forces,' which attacked Palestinian villages by night and killed many Palestinians.

Thank God I'm blind, since I can't see the crimes Britain is committing against my people.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.

He said that all you British are the same – you never bother to learn anyone else's language. You think you can still rule the world by shouting slowly at the natives.

Europeans extracted an estimated 222,505,049 hours of forced labour from African slaves between 1619 and 1865. Valued at the US minimum wage, with a modest rate of interest, that's worth $97 trillion – more than the entire global GDP.

All told, in the colonial period, Europeans increased their share of global GDP from 20 to 60 per cent, Hickel points out. 'Europe didn't develop the colonies. The colonies developed Europe.' The Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle sums it up: 'We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.

A la hija pequeña de Salome, Miep, la violentaron los hombres entre dos y tres veces distintas, pero Peters ha prohibido que la niña, que tiene tres años, reciba tratamiento médico, alegando que el médico difundiría rumores sobre la colonia y la gente sabría lo de las agresiones y convertirían todo el incidente en un escándalo.

Germany belonged, with Italy, to the so-called verspätete Nationen (late-coming nations), which sought to compensate for their delayed arrival in the game of imperialism.

A major problem for victims of all empires is to identify so strongly with this role that they become double victims: victims of the empire, and victims of themselves.

You see, it was largely a matter of tariffs. Export and import duties. Silk and cotton goods had seventy or eighty per cent tax slapped on them, and we were not allowed to retaliate.' Nazneen had drifted. She straightened the dining chairs and shivered at some remembered pleasure. 'The Dhaka looms were sacrificed,' said Chanu, 'so that the mills of Manchester could be born.' Nazneen came round to her duties. 'They were closed down by the British?

Every day, Anh Hoâng was shoved into the ground by the weight of the vanity cases of French wives. They, with their government clerk husbands, were touring their colony, forgetting who they were, forgetting that they had to cross oceans to move up a class.

A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly of the other races and civilization of the world, who left his own country in the West to set up a home among them in the East, and was ruined as a result, paying dearly for his foolish mistake. His life smashed to pieces by the barbarians surrounding him.

Jugée petite-bourgeoise par les gauches, la cause des femmes est aussi présentée comme le cheval de Troie de l'impérialisme ; et dans le meilleur des cas, comme soluble dans la libération de la nation.

The ability to discount darker people and darker nations in order to justify stealing their land and labor was foundational, and none of it would have been possible without those theories of racial supremacy that gave the whole morally bankrupt system a patina of legal respectability. In other words, economics was never separable from "identity politics," certainly not in colonial nations like the United States—so why would it suddenly be today?

In much of the Southern Hemisphere, neo liberalism is frequently spoken of as the second colonial pillage: in the first pillage, the riches were seized from the land, and in the second they were stripped from the state.

The climate science will no longer be denied; what will be denied is the idea that the nations that are the largest historical emitters of carbon owe anything to the black and brown people impacted by that pollution. This will be denied based on the only rationale possible; that those non-white and non-Christian people are lesser than, are the other, are dangerous invaders.

Climate change is indivisible from decolonization.