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There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism. — Mark Durie

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism. — Calvin Trillin

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism. — Prem Kishore

Colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead. — S.A. David

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

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated? — Arundhati Roy

British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism — Fareed Zakaria

C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most! — Mrs. Ernest Ames

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit — Edward W. Said

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise. — Arundhati Roy

The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk. — Eduardo Galeano

Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past. — Thorsten J. Pattberg

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Being colonized automatically makes you bipolar. — Sherman Alexie

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim

The only way to resist colonialism is through education. — Tariq Ramadan

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it? — Arundhati Roy

If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging? — Ho Chi Minh

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing. — Frantz Fanon

Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion. — Remi Kanazi

Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism? — Assata Shakur

Shoving hot bread up a roasting bird's ass & feasting on it seems like an apt celebration of colonialism. — Sherman Alexie

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now. — Wangari Maathai

A Motswana in Zambia or Zimbabwe was referred to as gwerekwere and so was a Zimbabwean or Zambian in Botswana. Post-colonialism tragedy. — Thabo Katlholo

We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism. — Nawal El Saadawi

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down. — Andrew Cohen

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

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. — Malcolm X

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. — Imran Khan

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

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe

Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant. — Marlon James

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim

There is a psychological phenomenon that consists in the belief that the world will open to the extent to which frontiers are broken down. — Frantz Fanon

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that. — Jesse Jackson

White people covered the earth like lice. — Louise Erdrich

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. — George Orwell

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance. — Imran Khan

It was as hard to be a Norwegian in 1881 as it was to be an American in 1770. Perhaps even harder, as Norway was far from a young nation. — Chris Nicolaisen

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back. — Kim Jong Il

Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit. — Thomas Pynchon

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena. — Nguyen Cao Ky

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

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. — Chinua Achebe

Euro-American colonialism, an aspect of the capitalist economic globalization, had from its beginnings a genocidal tendency. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

And Englishmen like posing as gods. — E. M. Forster

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself. — David Halberstam

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. — Stephen Kinzer

Under what circumstances would those who are the beneficiaries of colonialism stop denying and choose to act differently? — Paulette Regan

Until then he had believed they justified colonialism: Christianity, civilization, and commerce. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing. — Joseph Conrad

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world. — J.M. Blaut

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. — Barack Obama