Potcoloniality Quotes

“That was no insurrection, Colonel. We were fighting a war against your enemy. You said you came to help us. In the name of democracy--to free ourselves from tyrannical Spain. Instead, you invaded. In the treaty of Paris you paid twenty million dollars to buy our islands from the already vanquished Spain. We resisted you. Your army killed six hundred thousand Filipinos from 1899 to 1902, a war worse than Vietnam. That was no insurrection, Colonel. That was our war of independence.”
― Gina Apostol, Gun Dealers' Daughter