Anti Colonialism Quotes

“National liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the people or Commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonization is always a violent event.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

“The obsession with seeking in Africa's colonial past the causes of all its miseries today is the work of people intimately convinced that Africa is doomed, that it is unable to take care of itself today, and that, finally, the fate of the Black will only improve if the White comes back to repair what he has done wrong: these “hidden Afro- pessimists “ are hiding, under gratuitous accusations, anger, or demand for reparation, their own disarray. This explains why their words are sterile, never accompanied by proposals for solutions to the problems they evoke. They are doing a lot of harm to Africa because they divert issues that have worth.”
― Marcel Yabili, The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba

“The work of an accomplice in anticolonial struggle is to attack colonial structures and ideas.

The starting point is to articulate your relationship to indigenous peoples whose lands you are occupying. This is beyond acknowledgement or recognition. This can be particularly challenging for "nonfederally recognized" indigenous people as they are invisiblized by the state and the invaders occupying their homelands.

Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex. Taking Sides.”
― Indigenous Action Media

“Strong communities are born out of individuals being their best selves.

Not Murdered and Not Missing: Rebelling against Colonial Gender Violence. March 15, 2014. Nations Rising. Thanks to Miigwech/Nia:wen/Mahsi Cho, Tara Williamson, Melody McKiver, Jessica Danforth, Glen Coulthard, and Jarrett Martineau.”
― Leanne Simpson

“We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities, exacting from others a proper respect for his work and properly respecting the work of others. Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...”
― Amilcar Cabral, Revolution in Guinea: An African People's Struggle, Selected Texts

“The concept of an imported epidemic laying wast to vulnerable native inhabitants works just as well applied to the British, and other colonial nations, as it does to fungal spores.”
― Nicholas P. Money, The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History

“That’s the only conquest I care about, for language is the highway to culture. Not real estate, gadgets or cash, give me languages, give me cultures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Not real estate, gadgets or cash, give me languages, give me cultures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Unassimilability is a proposition to refuse to belong here altogether, together.”
― Biana Mabute-Louis

“The West broke the world, now the human race gotta resurrect the world, offspring of the terrorists and terrorized alike - but we can do nothing at all, till we decolonize our mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“With every rocket, the "ordinary citizens" crowded into their shelters and safe rooms, putting on their masks. Our people did not worry about missiles carrying chemical warheads! No one went to their room and put on their masks. Everyone was on the roof, whistling, shrieking, and cheering and directing the missile as though they were steering it: "Yalla, muster your strength," "Hurry, be careful," "The Patriot's been fired," "Go right," "Go to Tel Aviv, " "Hurry, hurry"!

As for that old woman from Al-Bireh, she said on an internal TV network what the whole people were saying. She asked the journalist while the viewers watched: "If I say something, will Saddam hear me?" "He will hear you! Speak, hajjeh!" "Listen Saddam, strike and don't worry if it hits us along with them, hit them and hit us!”
― Wisam Rafeedie, The Trinity of Fundamentals

“The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind

“Whether read from the perspective of slavery or that of colonial occupation, death and freedom are irrevocably interwoven. As we have seen, terror is a defining feature of both slave and late modern colonial regimes. Both regimes are also specific instances and experiences of unfreedom. To live under late modern occupation is to experience a permanent condition of "being in pain": fortified structures, military posts, and roadblocks everywhere, buildings that bring back painful memories of humiliation, interrogations, and beatings; curfews that imprison hundreds of thousands in their cramped homes every night from dusk to dawn; soldiers patrolling the unlit streets, frightened by their own shadows; children blinded by rubber bullets; parents shamed and beaten in front of their families; soldiers urinating on fences, shooting at rooftop water tanks just for kicks, chanting loud and offensive slogans, pounding on fragile tin doors to frighten children, confiscating papers, or dumping garbage in the middle of residential neighborhoods; border guards kicking over vegetable stands or closing borders at whim; bones broken; shootings and fatalities - a certain kind of madness.”
― Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics