Quotes about Colonization
I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for it was the name the Dutch called the Hudson River when they first came here, when men set to changing the world in their image, and gave all the wild things their own names.
— Alice Hoffman
Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!
— Anonymous
I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
— Stephen Hawking
It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland.
— Edmund Burke
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
Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction.
— Lydia Millet