Quotes About Colonialist

#1. Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

George Ayittey

#2. Mer-people could be read as a colonialist term, explained the biologist.

Lydia Millet

#3. China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation.

Andre Vltchek

#4. There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the sort of well-intentioned villains who do great harm and don't understand that they are doing great harm.

Kyle Minor

#5. Awareness of the settler-colonialist context of US history writing is essential if one is to avoid the laziness of the default position and the trap of a mythological unconscious belief in manifest destiny. The

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#6. Israel is a colonialist-imp erialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#7. I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

Dinesh D'Souza

#8. It is significant that racism is part of colonialism throughout the world; and it is no coincidence. Racism sums up and symbolizes the fundamental relation which unites colonialist and colonized.

Albert Memmi

#9. I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

Madeleine Albright

#10. (Matty) 'I'm going to a corn maze.'
(Elliot) 'Oh, bitch. You've lost your ever-loving mind.

Leta Blake

#11. With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

Richard Benjamin

#12. Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

Nelson Mandela

#13. It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#14. We didn't wish
wishes are wasted ...
We didn't hope
because our future was inevitable ...
And we didn't pray
we were on our own.

James St. James

#15. We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

Robert Browning

#16. first, that in a counterinsurgency campaign, the top priority is not to kill the enemy but to protect the population from enemy intimidation. This was a dramatic change from U.S. policy

John A. Nagl

#17. Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved up some countries and created others. When some of the world we had made by force wanted something in return, we were outraged.

Jeanette Winterson

#18. This is where people misunderstand war. When you attack another country for its resources, you are the pirate. But when you protect your country from the pirates, you are the hero.

Suzy Kassem

#19. I fell in love with the pageant world. People that don't compete in pageants, I think they have a negative feeling for them, but really, they are incredible.

Abbey Curran

#20. The number one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule and you will be sorry.

Kris Kristofferson

#21. When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'

Charles Duhigg

#22. I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent crime because you can really never truly recover from that." It's a story pitfall.

Julie Plec

#23. We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

Nellie Fox

#24. I've learned that love is a beautiful burn in a quiet corner of the heart that won't be ignored.

Adriane Leigh

#25. I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would.

John Oliver

#26. Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.

Marvin Gaye