quotes about Colonialism
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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 BellaSource : "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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The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
-- Calvin Trillin -
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 -
The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.
-- Frantz Fanon -
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Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.
-- George Ayittey -
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 -
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
-- Imran Khan -
Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.
-- J. Allan Hobson -
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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 -
The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.
-- Kim Jong IlSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 NkrumahSource : Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism”
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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 NkrumahSource : Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism”, Nelson
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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 -
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 -
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
-- Nawal El Saadawi -
Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.
-- Remi Kanazi -
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They, OLDEFO (Old Established Forces), carry out l'exploitation de l'homme par 'homme (the exploitation of man by man). Do not let them live, so that there's no colonialism anymore in the world.
-- Sukarno -
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source... To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.
-- Ward ChurchillSource : "Kill the Indian, Save the Man". Book by Ward Churchill, 2004.
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As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if not war, as was evidenced by World War I itself, which, among other things, featured Germany on one side of the barricades and Britain, which had come earlier to the table of colonial plunder, on the other.
-- Gerald HorneSource : Source: politicalaffairs.net
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Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at that particular moment in time reflected its true strength and its true weight in the imperialist world.
-- Gerald HorneSource : Source: politicalaffairs.net
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The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.
-- Kate O'Regan -
There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.
-- Mark Durie -
For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.
-- Nigel Gibson -
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Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.
-- Nigel Gibson -
Justice-seekers everywhere will celebrate Dunbar-Ortiz's unflinching commitment to truth-a truth that places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the United States.
-- Waziyatawin -
The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-Ã -vis everyone else. "Us against the rest of the world" is the formula that drives the West.
-- Abdul Sattar Abu RishaSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the west towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.
-- Martin JacquesSource : "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.
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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 SpadeSource : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.