“If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the futu…”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“How did the British celebrate successful colonisation? By teabagging the masses”— terjnh, reddit.com
“How we so fear change, shifting numbers, so cling to old money, archaic language, worn-out tendencies and muddled colonies, that we stall and maw, hem and haw, defend Old Glory like she's more than fabric running with the combination of wars.”— Leah Angstman, amazon.com
“The video for ‘Wildest Dreams’ perfectly demonstrates the ways in which Taylor continually misses the mark: By seeing life through only her experience (and that of those similarly sociopolitically positioned), she’s unable to notice — let alone prioritize — the needs of the most marginalized. So her…”— Melissa Fabello, everydayfeminism.com
“Our victims know us by their scars and by their chains, and it is this that makes their evidence irrefutable.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“We’re the worst terrorists in the world and it was a long time coming. This entire country was built on the slaughter of innocents.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“The reason America is such a horror story is that the entire thing is built on an Old Indian Graveyard.”— Frankie Boyle, stopwar.org.uk
“The countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“Historical amnesia and incuriousness about the violence of the past is the luxury of the oppressor. The colonized subject lives the historical violence of their expropriation viscerally, corporeally, all the way to psychosis, mental disorder, and phenomena.”— Simon Critchley, amazon.com