Nelson Mandela Quotes

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.

All this colonial business is a sham but we need it for elections.

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don't really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that... that it's just kind of glossed over as this thing.

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.

For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to "civilize" Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.

If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.