70 Quotes About Colonization
- Author Albert Memmi
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The ' colonized do not know how to breath', the 'people here do not know how walk; they make little steps which do not get them ahead.
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- Author Ann Leckie
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I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep you in your place. With Queter’s help I can remove Raughd from this place, permanently. I will try to do more if I can
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- Author Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
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Sarah (Winnemucca) is best known for her 1883 autobiography, Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Theirs Claims, the first memoir writen and published by a Native American woman. Her story begins; 'I was born somewhere near 1844, but am not sure of the precise time. I was a very small child when the first white people came to our country. They came like a lion, yes, like a roaring lion, and have continued to do so ever since, and I have never forgotten their first coming.
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- Author Zeyn Joukhadar
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But you failed to realize that America has only ever deemed certain heritages worth preserving. If the Lenape were forced from their ancestral home on the island of Mannahatta, the eviction of Little Syria's impoverished immigrants is no surprise, and it's hard for me to imagine that things will ever be any different.
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- Author Claire G. Coleman
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What souls they have, we will save. Whatever it is they use for brains we will educate it -' she smiled the self-satisfied smile the other sisters most likely hated though they should be scared to say it, '- whether they like it or not.
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- Author Orson Scott Card
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What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.Then they'd come home and take over Earth.OK, not that.
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- Author Dr. John Henrike Clark
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The first thing that the Europeans did was to laugh at the African gods. Then they made the Africans laugh at their own gods.
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- Author Peter Frankopan
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The age of empire and the rise of the west were built on the capacity to inflict violence on a major scale.
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- Author Greg Bear
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Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.
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