Quotes About Colonialism

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

So removed had the British now become from their Indian subjects, and so dismissive were they of Indian opinion, that they had lost all ability to read the omens around them or to analyse their own position with any degree of accuracy. Arrogance and imperial self-confidence had diminished the desire to seek accurate information or gain any real knowledge of the state of the country.

India's transition to colonialism took place under a for-profit corporation, which existed entirely for the purpose of enriching its investors.

The Company's ever-growing Indian empire could not have been achieved without the political and economic support of regional power groups and local communities. The

Whatever the accurate figures, the event generated howls of righteous indignation for several generations among the British in India and 150 years later was still being taught in British schools as demonstrative of the essential barbarity of Indians and illustrative of why British rule was supposedly both necessary and justified.

in 1770–71, at the height of the Bengal famine, an astounding £1,086,255 was transferred to London by Company executives – perhaps £100 million in modern currency.27

Not long after his return to England, on 22 November 1774, at the age of only forty-nine, Robert Clive committed suicide in his townhouse in Berkeley Square.

On 19 October 1774, the three Crown councillors appointed by the statutes of the Regulating Act, Philip Francis, General Clavering and Colonel Monson, finally docked in Calcutta. They were immediately offended to be given a seventeen-, not a twenty-one-gun salute, and by the 'mean and dishonourable' reception: 'there were no guards, no person to receive us or to show the way, no state.

India in the 1840s and 1850s was slowly filling with pious British Evangelicals who wanted not just to rule and administer India, but also to redeem and improve it.

plantations in Java; forty-seven chiefs were tortured and executed.

One man said it was very wrong to kill the memsahib and the children, and how were they going to get rozgar [employment]? But another said that we were kafirs, and now the King of Delhi would provide for everyone.