Coloniser Quotes

“I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.
Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.”
― Rawi Hage, Carnival

“Anyone who tells you money is evil is probably trying to exploit you.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Do you ever feel like a stranger to your skin?
A language feels known to the ear, but alien on the tongue?
Thoughts are shaped and reshaped in words of the colonizer.
Clothes of the other world are made to fit your size?”
― Devika Todi

“The most effective colonisation is not the conquest of land but the conquest of consciousness. When the colonised can no longer recognise the virus as a virus, the enemy as an enemy, or domination as domination, colonisation is complete.”
― Yamin Kogoya, WE ARE THE LAST VOICE OF THE FIRST PEOPLES & THE FIRST VOICE OF THE LAST PEOPLES: 63 Sacred Sayings from the Edge of Extinction: Remembering 63 Years of Invasion, Betrayal, and Resistance