#colonization

We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others. ↗

— Sid Meier

#about #also #asked #century #colonization

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#communication #english #language #communication

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#community #community-development #culture #quotes #social-justice

The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mutilated. Sometimes writing can work toward a reparation, making a sheltering space for the mind. Yet it feeds off ruptures, tears in what might otherwise seem a seamless, oppressive fabric. ↗

— Meena Alexander

#writing #experience

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? ↗

— Ambeth R. Ocampo

#philippine-history #philippines #respect #rizal #imagination

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#failure #national #philanthropic #succeed #will

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#colonization #europeans #every #indian #indians

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#colonization #demanding #far #figures #indicate