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Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? — Ambeth R. Ocampo

Unlike others before him, Oglethorpe felt the disadvantaged could be reclaimed if they were given a fair chance. — Nancy Isenberg

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. — Thabo Mbeki

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial". — Dave Barry

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement. — Tom Morello

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution. — Ho Chi Minh

Australian History:
... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies. — Mark Twain

More than half the colonists who came to the North American shores in the colonial period came as servants. — Howard Zinn

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines. — Alvaro De Vasconcelos

When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony. — Alvaro De Vasconcelos

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. — Gore Vidal

The racist and colonial idea that the Holocaust began as an elemental explosion of primitive antisemitism arose as Nazi propaganda and apologetics. — Timothy Snyder

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

Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial — Henry Kissinger

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust. — Patrick Chappatte

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split. — W.C. Fields

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. — Moby

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I'm guessing normal for us won't include a two-story Colonial in the suburbs? A Corgi, two kids, and a minivan?" Roth — Jasinda Wilder

More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort. — Nancy Isenberg

As the colonial insects did to the other insects, we have pushed all other mammals to the margins, to extinction, or to servitude. — Jonathan Haidt

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. — Stephen Gardiner

she steps up to the front door of the Strongs' Colonial-style house, with Linc, Neil, and I close on her heels. — Heather Hildenbrand

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 Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime. — Samora Machel

exemplified the dull rigidity of Singapore's old colonial fantasies about itself. — Jonathan Lethem

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese. — Kevin Kwan

The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'? — Sara Sheridan

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs. — Arundhati Roy

British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to — Stephen E. Ambrose

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic. — David Morrissey

Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial wars. — Dan Simmons

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. — Albert Bushnell Hart

Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends — Luis J. Rodriguez

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people. — Roger Hilsman

A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map." - Kirkus Reviews — Milena Banks