Anticolonial Quotes

“The war in Vietnam was little more than an attempt… to keep the people of Indochina ‘in their place and enslaved.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

“REPLACE SUCCESS AND PRODUCTION AND PROGRESS
WITH ABUNDANCE, CUNNING, STILLNESS”
― Metropolarity, Style of Attack Report

“- Hoje, em circunstâncias iguais, não me tremeria a voz para dar a mesma ordem, nem os europeus teriam autoridade moral para me censurar, pois se há uma história regada de sangue, de indignidade, de injustiças, é a história da Europa. (...) Então nos façam o favor de não nos dizer mais o que devemos fazer. Não tentem nos ensinar como devemos ser, não tentem nos tornar iguais a vocês, não pretendam que façamos bem em vinte anos o que vocês fizeram tão mal em dois mil.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

“Fardan bent to peer at her face. “What are you thinking?”
She pushed him away, annoyed. “I’m thinking what a fool you are.”
“I knew it.” He gave a satisfied smile. “You’re always thinking about me, even when you’re frowning.”
― Rati Mehrotra, Flower and Thorn

“His gaze narrowed. “Why do you think the Portuguese are here, so far from their own country?”
“Greed,” she said after a moment. “It’s always greed.”
He nodded. “Europeans crave spice, are willing to pay its weight in gold.”
― Rati Mehrotra, Flower and Thorn

“Anthropology, it has often been said, served as a handmaid to colonialism. Perhaps it must also be said, that feminism, or the ideas of feminism, served as its other handmaid.”
― Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam