Colonialism

“For all are by nature of very subtle, lively, clear and most capable understanding.”

“Orgaan boeat bangsa jang terperentah di H.O. Tempat akan memboeka swaranya Anak-Hindia.”

“Does eating African rice with a European spoon make the rice also European?”

“Orgaan boeat bangsa jang terperintah di Hindia Belanda. Tempat akan memboeka swaranya anak Hindia.”

“We were those sensitive might-have-beens who had knocked on the door of white civilisation.”

“Le problème qui va se poser à nous dans un proche avenir consistera à substituer à des limitations de souveraineté qui nous étaient imposées par la force des limitations de souveraineté librement consenties.”

“All the nations of the world are made up of human beings, and of each and every human being there is one definition and one only: that they are rational.”

“My painting is an act of decolonization—not in a physical sense, but in a mental one.”

“Dân tộc nào để một nền văn hóa ngoại bang ngự trị thì không thể có độc lập thực sự. Văn hóa là tâm hồn của một dân tộc.”

“L'indépendance de l'Algérie, comme celle de la Tunisie et du Maroc, comme celle de tous les pays colonisés, est inéluctable.”

““From now on, we place the map upside-down, so we have a fair idea of our positioning.””

“The mission of my generation was to win self-government for Jamaica.”

“No aborigine can feel absolutely free and equal to other Australians whilst the Commonwealth Constitution contains the two clauses which exclude him from the Census . . . and from Commonwealth laws.”

“An apartheid-like system is when we are talking about two peoples who live in the same territory.”

“The English call me French, the French call me English, the Turks call me infidel; I am simply an Egyptian.”

““Restrict the rate of interest, and you at once destroy the stamina of the colony.””