Quotes About Colonialism

It was not that "slave trade profits" flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade of the eighteenth century derived its value from the products of slave labor and would have been much diminished in the absence of slavery. As sugar became an item of common consumption in Britain, the sugar trade provided a powerful stimulus for a diverse range of occupations and ancillary activities, especially in London.

The great [Indochinese] possessions," wrote an early colonial administrator, "should be organized as true states…and made to possess all the characteristics that define states, except one: political independence.

In sharp contradiction to Kipling, Mark Twain had no wish to succeed the British in any imperial role. He abhorred what his country had done to the people of the Philippines as much as what the British had done to the Boers, and so he finished introducing his English guest with the playfully reproachful words: 'We are kin. And now that we are kin in sin, there is nothing more to be desired.

Hun ba for de døde og sendte lykkønskningsbrev til de levende hver gang det var bryllup eller barnedåp - akkurat som engelskmennene i koloniene, som drakk seg fulle i all ensomhet hver gang London feiret dronningens fødselsdag.

Many Europeans see immigrants as they saw colonial subjects – as lower peoples who have to be assimilated by education – and assume that their civilization will be defined only on European terms.

Pedro y Francisco agradecían la suerte de ser católicos, garantía de salvación del alma, y españoles, es decir, superiores al resto de los mortales. Eran hidalgos de España, soberana del mundo, larga y ancha, más poderosa que el antiguo Imperio romano, señalada por Dios para descubrir, conquistar, cristianizar, fundar y poblar los más remotos rincones de la Tierra.

we turn our backs on Latin America, always comparing ourselves instead to Europe.

If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear.

'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter.

Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my limbic system.

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.