200 Quotes About Imperialism

  • Author Edward W. Said
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    We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

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  • Author محمد عفيفي
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    ماذا إذن كانت فائدة كل تلك القرون من قتل الهنود والسود والبيض في أربعة أركان الأرض ؟ أهذه نهاية كل هذا التعب - أن بعض الأسرات البريطانية ما زالت ربح في الأسبوع مبلغاً لا يزيد عن الذي تربحه أسرات البلاد المنهوبة في اشهر وربما في العام ؟!

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  • Author Julius Nyerere
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    And just as, in the First Scramble for Africa, one tribe was divided against another tribe to make the division of Africa easier, in the Second Scramble for Africa one nation is going to be divided against another nation to make it easier to control Africa by making her weak and divided against herself

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  • Author Thomas Sowell
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    The question as to whether flesh-and-blood people of indigenous ancestry today would have been better off had the Europeans not invaded can scarcely be asked, much less answered, because most flesh-and-blood contemporary American Indians would not exist if the Europeans had not invaded, since they are of European as well as indigenous ancestry. Nature is remarkably uncooperative with our moral categories. There is no way to unscramble an egg.

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  • Author Katharine Burdekin
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    Unshakable, impregnable Empire has always been the dream of virile nations, and now at last it's turned into a nightmare reality. A monster that is killing us.

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  • Author Black Elk
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    Crazy Horse was dead. He was brave and good and wise. He never wanted anything but to save his people, and he fought the Wasichus only when they came to kill us in our own country. He was only thirty years old. They could not kill him in battle. They had to lie to him and kill him that way. I cried all night, and so did my father.

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  • Author Michael Parenti
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    [I]t is the powerful who write the laws of the world-- and the powerful who ignore these laws when expediency dictates.

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