Colonialism Quotes - Page 2

• After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

  Hans Kung

  War, Two, Humanity

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• Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

  Arundhati Roy

  Mutants, World, Poverty

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.183, Haymarket Books

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• The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-à-vis everyone else. "Us against the rest of the world" is the formula that drives the West.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Long, Arrogance, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Race, World, Communism

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• We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

  Indira Gandhi

  Struggle, Evil, India

  Source: sangam.org

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• I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

  Slavoj Žižek

  Focus, Hatred, Annoyed

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• A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Evil

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• 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.

  Susan George

  Powerful, Army, Administration

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• The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Independent, Reality, Essence

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

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• Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

  Bill McKibben

  Slavery, Kind, Imperialism

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

  David Cronenberg

  Country, Mother, Betrayal

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• There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

  Mark Durie

  Religious, World, Reason

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

  Che Guevara

  Determination, Latin, Self

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.325, Ocean Press

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• Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

  Wole Soyinka

  Adventure, Pride, Giving

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Jul 22, 2016

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• I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. (...) I also deeply believe in human rights.

  David Duke

  Believe, Rights, Humans

  David Duke Podcast, www.davidduke.com. August 25, 2006.

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• I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Party, Two, Islam

  Al Jazeera, March 27, 2007.

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• We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Egypt, Feds, Fed Up

  "Egypt’s Nawal El Saadawi: 'We Will Not Let Egypt Burn'". The Root Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

  Jesse Jackson

  Proud, Slavery, Apologetic

  "Jesse Jackson: UK should apologise for slavery". www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2001.

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• Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?

  Assata Shakur

  Sacrifice, Racism, World

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• I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

  Wilbur Smith

  Country, Reality, Views

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

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  War, Brain, Remember

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• As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of
  Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!

  Douglas Pearce

  Mean, Successful, Australia

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• The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as inferior to the Spaniards as children are to adults and women are to men, there being as much difference between them as that between wild and cruel and very merciful persons, the prodigiously intemperate and the continent and tempered, and I daresay from apes to men

  Juan Gines de Sepulveda

  Children, Men, Differences

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• We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.

  Dean Spade

  Law, White, Legal System

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  United States, Settlers, States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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