Soong Mei-ling Quotes

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.

The enslavement of Africans [in America] built the world's strongest economy.

Mexico seems a doomed victim to Anglo Saxon cupidity and love of dominion.

There is or there has been in the past much selfishness in the northern White man's motives in opening up Africa, and in his interference in the disorders of the Black man or the Brown.

To the Left, Islam's anger and hatred of the West is understandable because they have legitimate grievances against us.

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

Slavery is the first form of Globalization in which America participated.

With respect to the terrible things done by Western empires, there were also all sorts of terrible things being done in the rest of the world when the West showed up.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Mugabe hasn't done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

We should be lords over them…these are the politics of South Africa.

Instruction! Instruction! is what the Boers lack above all else; they call themselves Christians, and Kaffirs and Hottentots heathen, and for this reason they believe that they are permitted anything.

The cruelties committed against the Hottentots exceed everything that is said about it in Cape Town or what can be imagined.

Take up the White Man's burden— In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, To seek another's profit And work another's gain. Take up the White Man's burden— The savage wars of peace— Fill All the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease.

We are all British gentlemen engaged in the magnificent work of governing an inferior race.