63 Colonial Quotes for You to Enjoy

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. Nelson Mandela

Freedom Fight Communism Active Correspond Would Objects Colonial Long-Term Countries Because Always Role Movements Short-Term Communists Played

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today. Os Guinness

Positive Today Freedom You Oppression Negative Power Alcohol Addiction Colonial Freed Freedom From Whether Ignored Need

You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. Malcolm X

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

Church Colonial Catholic Catholic Church Regime Fascist

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. V. S. Naipaul

Simple Society Philistine Complex Seem Colonial Knows May Anyone Who

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. W. E. B. Du Bois

Today War Man Problem Black Nation Before Those Degraded Civil Civil War Similar Colonial Colored Imperialism Had Cheap Raw Raw Material Like Souls Built Material South Tragedy Labor Greek America After Central Used Manufacture Whom Oligarchy Million Four Raising

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

Made Colonial Had Attempts Been Off Tax Cut Many Slaves

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world. Alice Morse Earle

The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit. Alice Morse Earle

Women Too Unknown Plentiful Though Colonial Records Habit Shape Annoying Learn Scold Were America Irritating Far English Bridle

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten. Arthur Laffer

History You Inflation Value Think Increase Seven Crop Ten Colonial Fed Price Had Over Prospects Without Falling Years Bumper Five Times Quite Six The History Of Cannot Next Each Serious Base Monetary Apple Largest Apples Present

We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina. Binyavanga Wainaina

Good People Father First Too Ways Brothers Brothers And Sisters Adopted Adopting Colonial Had Name Naming Also Schools Were Mixed Western Up Sisters Grandfather Produce Show Christians

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye. Charlie Pierce

Financial Political Digital Few Control Our Papers Eye Pens Colonial Instead Over Beyond Institutions Globe Blink Dollars Nations Anymore Transferring Bursts Little Billions Billions Of Dollars Millions

The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence. Edmund Morgan

Politics History Culture People Definition Has-Been High Rather Only Colonial Almost New Faint Period Traces Leave Been Existence Proving Than America Behind Unfortunately Ordinary Which Ordinary People Social Ground

The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England. Edmund Morgan

History Every Other Has-Been Marriages Kind Record Colonial Both Records Point Abundant New Most New England Another Been Deaths Surviving America Form Literate Which England Europe Societies Starting Starting Point Preserve

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. Eliot Engel

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. Emily Greene Balch

I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure. Fernando Botero

Art Seen Single Painting Saw Churches Small Colonial Picasso Had Since Course Very Modern Any Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Century Sculpture Painters Exposure Museum Museums

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century. Fidel Castro

Power First Half Caribbean East East Asia Colonial Part True Over Islands Australia Dominion North North America America Africa Middle Middle East Asia Century Use England Large Many Large Part

There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China. George Ayittey

Best Criticism Building Resources Evidence Favor Must Best Friend Structured Colonial Exchange Main Raw Since Deal Deals Got West Friend Africa China Chinese Infrastructure Then Show Belief

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. Gore Vidal

Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system. Greg Grandin

Health History Dark Black Think Thomas Thomas Jefferson Harriet System Black Americans Emerged Colonial Fact Smallpox Performed Documents His Times American In Fact Experimentation Experiments Apartheid Public Much Public Health Jefferson Washington Now Medical Present Slave Slaves

Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords. Harvey Pekar

Me Suffering People Events Amazing Creation Other Jews Way Horrible Colonial Like Self-Determination Make Unusual Understand Israel Caused Frighten Going Politically Endured Centuries Now Deserve Right Awkward Number

The Caribbean calls upon the enslaving governments of Europe and their national institutions, all enriched and empowered by their crimes against humanity, to return to the region in order to participate in cleaning up their colonial mess. Hilary Beckles

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