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European imperialism4 quotes
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves. — C.L.R. James · 1938When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. — George Orwell · 1936When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. — Frantz Fanon · 1961When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the viper whose sting is destined to poison all their joys. — Herman Melville · 1846Europe1 quote
When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. — Frantz Fanon · 1961Imperialism1 quote
When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. — George Orwell · 1936