Top 38 Quotes On Colonialism And Imperialism
#1. The evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.
Mao Tse-tung
#2. King not only encouraged church members to become registered voters and NAACP leaders but also to see the Southern Jim Crow system as part of a passing global order of colonialism and imperialism.
Troy Jackson
#3. The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#4. Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
Marlon James
#5. Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.
Ted Dekker
#6. Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it?
Arundhati Roy
#7. Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.
J.M. Blaut
#8. Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
Malcolm X
#9. Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs.
Eduardo Galeano
#10. Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.
George Lucas
#11. You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit
Edward W. Said
#12. I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world
Sukarno
#13. The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#14. Painted mafritty fritters frittering fitty fitty scented candelabra abra cadaver. Candle blah blah.
Fiddles McMonkeypants
#15. History's best thinkers eventually concluded that our flaws were too powerful to trust with freedom. Thus we've been groomed as hamsters in a wheel that benefits a laughing few. No more great works will be accomplished under the regime, because beauty is not democratic or profitable.
D.B.C. Pierre
#16. I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.
Drake
#17. The Lourie Center is an important model to consider ... (in) mental health care ... It is imperative that we use this knowledge to help ensure that every young child in our society has the opportunity to get an emotionally healthy start in life.
Tipper Gore
#18. 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
#19. Human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.
Edward W. Said
#21. A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
George Orwell
#22. C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most!
Mrs. Ernest Ames
#23. Colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.
S.A. David
#24. In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
Rumi
#25. Lauren," Kenzie managed finally as she dramatically fanned herself, and then me. "You did not just meet him last night."
"No really," I said when I could speak. "He kind of swept me off my feet. Literally.
Lily Paradis
#26. Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.
George Ayittey
#27. Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.
Eduardo Galeano
#28. Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.
Napoleon Hill
#29. These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.
Emily Greene Balch
#30. 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
#31. According to Okonkwo, the British via its indirect rule system ensured that Africans saw their native leaders as the demons who betrayed their people. He called it a demonocracy and that was the first time I had seen him become so passionate about issues that affect Africa as a people and continent.
S.A. David
#32. With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#33. The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk.
Eduardo Galeano
#34. One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.
Lucy Corin
#35. I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?
George Balanchine
#36. You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.
Malcolm X
#37. Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
Brit Marling
#38. In order for ethnology to live, its object must die; by dying, the object takes its revenge for being 'discovered' and with its death defies the science that wants to grasp it.
Jean Baudrillard
