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Colonization Quotes

The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

Jimmy Carter
Israel, Obstacles, Colonization
"Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace". www.haaretz.com. March 16, 2006.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Favors, Colonization
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

Sherman Alexie
Reactions, Colonization, Knows

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Theodor Herzl
Failure, Succeed, Colonization
Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Steve Jobs
Gains, Nothing To Lose, Colonization

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

Anthony Burgess
Colonialism, Reason, Colonization
Anthony Burgess (2012). “Earthly Powers”, p.242, Random House

I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

Albert Memmi
Understanding, Half, Colonization
Albert Memmi (2013). “The Colonizer and the Colonized”, p.12, Routledge

The American continents, by the free and independent condition by which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

James Monroe
Independent, Colonization, Subjects
Seventh Annual Message to Congress (The Monroe Doctrine), 2 Dec. 1823

There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.

Pope Francis
Trying, Colonization, Be Careful

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

Melissa Farley
Historical, Prostitution, Colonization
"Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women". Transcultural Psychiatry 42, article co-written with J. Lynne and A. Cotton, 2005.

Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it became an appendage of the "internal market" of Western capitalism.

Paul A. Baran
Country, Colonization, Treaties
"The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 6, (p. 174), 1957.

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