Quotes about Colonization
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible.
— Desmond Tutu
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
— Ignatius of Loyola
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
— Desmond Tutu
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
— Abraham Lincoln
Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!
— Anonymous
Europe got over the loss of its colonies much more quickly than the colonies got over their loss of Europe.
— Pascal Bruckner
It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland.
— Edmund Burke
Canada is built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
— Stephen Hawking
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
— Alice Walker
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
— Stephen Hawking
Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
— Bill Bailey