Quotes about Colonization

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When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the w — T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mut — Meena Alexander, The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience
The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly! — Bob Bello, Sci-Fi Almanac, 2010
So spoke the man whose importance originated in the golden harvest he had reaped with the resistless hand of force, from — Helen Craik, Stella of the North
The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the — Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home — S.G. Rainbolt
American schools in Guam, both before 1941 and after 1945, were established to eradicate the Chamoru, tongue and person. — Julian Aguon, The Fire This Time: Essays on Life Under Us Occupation
Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and — Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, s — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll — Martin J. Rees
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, — Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
I am glad we have not yet been able to reach the stars or inhabitable planets that dance about them. For they would in a — Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
It's quite conceivable that [life] will eventually spread through thegalaxy and beyond. So life may not forever be an un — Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees
To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans h — Becky Chambers
Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother cou — Ambeth R. Ocampo, Rizal Without the Overcoat
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? — Anthony Burgess
Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained — John Scalzi, Old Man's War