Colonialism - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola {Haiti and the Dominican Republic today}: "In fourteen hundred and ninety - five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive." Columbus — Brian D. McLaren The Great...

In this Ferguson is at least living up to the ethos of the colonial project, which primarily benefited the European imperialists in material, moral and intellectual terms. Imperialism elevated European notions of humanity to predominance in the world, posited the white male as the apotheosis of the ideal of the Enlightenment, and did so by fiat and military power. In the process imperial historians wrote the 'history' of their subject peoples in tendentious terms to explain and justify their own imperium. — Shashi Tharoor Inglorious...

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

Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to {Mma Ramotswe} at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in...

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...

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