Colonization Quotes

• There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.

  Khaled Mashal

  Israel, Resistance, Occupation

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• I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Favors, Known

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

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• The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

  Jimmy Carter

  Israel, Obstacles, Palestine

  "Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace". www.haaretz.com. March 16, 2006.

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• It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Skills, Roots, Racism

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• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bible, Prayer, Eye

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• The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Loss, Identity, Defeat

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• The American continents, by the free and independent condition by which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

  James Monroe

  Independent, Subjects, Continents

  Seventh Annual Message to Congress (The Monroe Doctrine), 2 Dec. 1823

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• Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

  Anthony Burgess

  Colonialism, Reason, Spread

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “Earthly Powers”, p.242, Random House

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• I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

  Albert Memmi

  Understanding, Half

  Albert Memmi (2013). “The Colonizer and the Colonized”, p.12, Routledge

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• Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation Proclamation he advises some blacks to labor faithfully for reasonable wages, here in the United States. He doesn't say anything about them leaving the country. He puts black men in the army. That is a whole different vision than simply saying "let's have them go out of the country." I think what's interesting is the change in Lincoln's view, but one must realize that he did adhere to this idea of colonization for many years.

  Eric Foner

  Country, Army, Men

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Land, Events, Matter

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

  Sherman Alexie

  Reactions, Knows, Has Beens

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• For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

  Melissa Farley

  Historical, Prostitution, Trauma

  "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women". Transcultural Psychiatry 42, article co-written with J. Lynne and A. Cotton, 2005.

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• Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

  Gustav Stresemann

  War, Loss, Territory

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• Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

  Theodor Herzl

  Failure, Succeed, Philanthropic

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way.

  Joseph Boyden

  Hate, Ideas, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, Space, Way

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• We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

  Steve Jobs

  Gains, Nothing To Lose, Tranquil

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• Those human groups that
  entertain a subjective belief in
  their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization
  and migration; this belief must be important for group
  formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.

  Max Weber

  Memories, Blood, Important

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• Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

  David Oyelowo

  Trying, Way, Lost

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Enemy, World, Made

  Jean Baptiste Say (1834). “A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.217

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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Class, Pay

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Country, Fate, Civilization

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• In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.

  Jared Diamond

  Real, Animal, Axes

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