Daniel Muresan

“Queen Victoria’s government limited food aid, lest charity foster idleness and other vices in what was deemed an inferior race, as if evolution had taken a wrong turn with these backward Celts in contrast to the eminently superior Anglo-Saxons. English publications caricatured the Irish as apelike brawlers, drinkers, and layabouts, a race predisposed to superstition, savagery, and indolence.”
― Rory Carroll, There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

“The history of central Africa before the European arrival was as filled with wars and conquests as Europe’s own, and even during Leopold’s rule not all the Congo’s violence was between colonizer and colonized. Because so many Congo peoples had earlier fought among themselves, the Force Publique was often able to ally itself with one ethnic group to defeat another. But sooner or later the first group found itself subdued as well. With their forces stretched thin over a huge territory, Leopold’s commanders made clever use of this shifting pattern of alliances. In the end, though, their superior firepower guaranteed victory—and a history written by the victors.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

“They attacked houses belonging to the city’s Jews, robbed the owners, and stripped stones from their buildings to improve the city’s defenses.”
― Dan Jones, Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

“He also brought home a new and abiding anger about race. “The white man in Europe or America is our number-one enemy,” he declared. “The white man crushes us underfoot while we teach our children about his civilization, his universal principles and noble objectives…. We are endowing our children with amazement and respect for the master who tramples our honor and enslaves us. Let us instead plant the seeds of hatred, disgust, and revenge in the souls of these children. Let us teach these children from the time their nails are soft that the white man is the enemy of humanity, and that they should destroy him at the first opportunity.”
― Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11