Colonialism Quotes

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.

We wonder why we get credits only to be indebted

Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

White people covered the earth like lice.

human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.

That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you – and it’s not unique to the West either.

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.

Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.

C" is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!

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

...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.

Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.