Colonialism - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy with the blood of others. Colonialism, apartheid, slavery, ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, chemical weapons - they virtually invented it all. — Arundhati Roy The Cost of...

Do you know what politics is? It is the French word for a lie. Oh! Politics! When you hear the French say: our politics, you know they mean: our lies. And when you hear the Muslims, the Friends of Independence, say: our politics, you know they mean: our lies. All lies are sins. And so, which displeases Allah more, a lie told by a Christian, who doesn't know the true faith from the false, or a lie told by a Muslim, who does? — Paul Bowles The Spider's...

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...

The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn't have to be another country. It can be the past instead - the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines? — Kurt Vonnegut Bluebeard

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...

It has been estimated that at least a thousand Indians were sold into slavery during King Philip's War, with over half the slaves coming from Plymouth Colony alone. By the end of the war, Mount Hope, once the crowded Native heart of the colony, was virtually empty of inhabitants. Fifty-six years after the sailing of the Mayflower, the Pilgrims' children had not only defeated the Pokanokets in a devastating war, they had taken conscious, methodical measures to purge the land of its people. — Nathaniel Philbrick Mayflower: A...

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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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.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

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....

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

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