Colonialism Quotes

• A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Destiny, World, Serious

  Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism”, Nelson

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• The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Clouds, Views

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.434, Broadway Books

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• But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony,
  and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever
  their continent, their class, their color.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Mean, Dark

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Political, Mind

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.92, Beacon Press

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• Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.

  Waziyatawin

  Memories, Fog, Imagination

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• The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  War, Winning, Tyrants

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

  Frantz Fanon

  Giving, Realizing, Native

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

  Imran Khan

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Balance

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Cancer, Men, Thinking

  George Bernard Shaw (1994). “John Bull's Other Island”, p.41, Penguin UK

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• Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Groups, Earth, Soil

  Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism”

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• You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

  Malcolm X

  Soul, Dollars, Isms

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• Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Europe, Ideas

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Army, Years, Phases

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

  Simone Weil

  Opportunity, Civilization, Firsts

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• Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.

  Tim Wise

  Jesus, Reality, White

  "Erin Burnett Outfront". www.cnn.com. December 16, 2013.

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• Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

  Anthony Burgess

  Reason, Colonization, Spread

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “Earthly Powers”, p.242, Random House

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• If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

  Ho Chi Minh

  People, Revolution, Sides

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• I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world

  Sukarno

  Hate, Struggle, Play

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

  Kim Jong Il

  Trends, Politics, Force

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

  Malcolm X

  Racism, Negative, Isms

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• Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.

  Remi Kanazi

  Occupation, Problem, Palestine

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• The only way to resist colonialism is through education.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Way

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• A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

  Imran Khan

  Country, Achieve, Aids

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Country, Countries Of The World, Development

  Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism”, Nelson

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• 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.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Mistake, Iraq

  "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", January 11, 2007.

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