Quotes About Settler Colonialism

#1. The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism - the founding of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#2. Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.

Remi Kanazi

#3. Settler colonialism, which is what this is, is by far the worst kind of imperialism, because it gets rid of the native population. Other kinds of imperialism exploit them, but settler colonialism eliminates them, "exterminates" them, to use the words of the Founding Fathers.

Noam Chomsky

#4. The state is not only repressive; it is also educative - shaping common sense through ideological state apparatuses (such as the academy) that normalize the rule of settler colonialism.

Audra Simpson

#5. The horror that grand people have for the snobs who strive so hard to make their acquaintance is also felt by masculine men for inverts, and by women for every man who is too much in love with them.

Marcel Proust

#6. It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.

Mark Batterson

#7. A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

Robert Jordan

#8. A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

Jean-Luc Godard

#9. I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

John C. Reilly

#10. This is it, this was my new home, or prison I wasn't entirely sure yet which. I am not sure if I am ready for anything that is to come, but it seems I have very little choice.

Kerri E. Lorenz

#11. If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"
and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition
then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

Peter Drucker

#12. But I hope reading will give him something to look forward to, a reason to fight. I want to believe reading will fill him with courage.

Camron Wright

#13. I've got so much money it's ridiculous.

Richard Desmond

#14. affinities under the crust of colonialism. This brief overview of precolonial North America suggests the magnitude of what was lost to all humanity and counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#15. I bought the sweetness with this pain.

Anne Reeve Aldrich

#16. The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Jack Kerouac

#17. When your reasons rise above your excuses, so will you.

Orrin Woodward

#18. What T. S. Eliot said: When all is said and done the writer may realize that he has wasted his youth and wrecked his health for nothing.

Jenny Offill

#19. There are times we need to tell ourselves, "Good job!" when we know that is true.

Charles R. Swindoll