Colonialism

“I suppose I must call myself a slave for I am the colour of those of whom you made slaves.”

“The Caribbean is part of the frontier of the transformation of societies everywhere, but we suffer from the Columbus Syndrome.”

“I hope the foundation, not the fall, of an empire will be dated from it.”

“As an African writer I did not have to sound like a carbon copy English boy if I wrote in English.”

“I arrived as a Javanese in Europe and return a real German to Java.”

“¿Éstos no son hombres?”

“The concept of Africa is an invention.”

“We had equality till Britain came.”

“Our future is nothing but what is the present of today’s West.”

“Every time [a global seed company like] Monsanto takes a seed [from indigenous communities] they deny 1000 generations of agricultural history.”

““No Congolese will ever forget that independence was won in struggle.””

“I wanted a persona to really reflect our point of view at the time that colonial policies were beginning.”

“In the above manner the Gospel has been introduced into New Zealand, and I fervently pray, that the Glory of it may never depart from its Inhabitants till Time shall be no more.”

“White leadership is therefore a myth and a heritage of impoverishment.”

“Je ne veux pas de chemin de fer. Ne le construis pas, et nous vivrons en paix.”

“Nothing was further from the thoughts of the natives than that the Crown should be allowed to get any footing in the district.”

“Décoloniser la philosophie, c'est cesser de croire qu'il existe des lieux où la philosophie éclot.”

“Peruanos: ya tenéis patria. Levantad esa cabeza que vosotros y vuestros padres habéis llevado humillada por tres siglos de cautiverio.”