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Anticolonial Quotes

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Michael G. Kramer
“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

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

Gabriel García Márquez
“- 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

Rati Mehrotra
“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

Rati Mehrotra
“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

Leila Ahmed
“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