{"quotes":[{"text":"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?","author":"Anthony Burgess","tags":["colonialism","colonization","reason"],"id":48205,"author_id":"Anthony+Burgess"},{"text":"Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home.","author":"S.G. Rainbolt","tags":["colonization","dear-sun-i-am-real","earth","humanity","science-fiction"],"id":49247,"author_id":"S.G.+Rainbolt"},{"text":"India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them. Over the centuries, many powers have defeated Indian armies; but none has ever proved immune to this capacity of the subcontinent to somehow reverse the current of colonisation, and to mould those who attempt to subjugate her. So vast is India, and so uniquely resilient and deeply rooted are her intertwined social and religious institutions, that all foreign intruders are sooner or later either shaken off or absorbed.","author":"William Dalrymple","tags":["colonization","india"],"id":67342,"author_id":"William+Dalrymple"},{"text":"To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong.","author":"Becky Chambers","tags":["colonization","human-nature"],"id":122753,"author_id":"Becky+Chambers"},{"text":"Their leafy whispers delighted her, and she promised her confidentiality by gently touching the trunks of both trees. They had held her secrets close to their hearts, she could do no less.","author":"Jesikah Sundin","tags":["biodome","chronicles","colonization","fillion","leaf","legacy","mars","willow"],"id":126980,"author_id":"Jesikah+Sundin"},{"text":"Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?","author":"Ambeth R. Ocampo","tags":["colonization","philippine-history","philippines","respect","rizal"],"id":133494,"author_id":"Ambeth+R.+Ocampo"},{"text":"I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this “condition” affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.","author":"Danzy Senna","tags":["colonization","race","whiteness"],"id":137786,"author_id":"Danzy+Senna"},{"text":"American schools in Guam, both before 1941 and after 1945, were established to eradicate the Chamoru, tongue and person. To educate the old Chamoru out of the new American. The native out of the patriot...But the nastier lesson their schools taught was that their dreams were ours. That indigenous knowledge had no place in the new world...As vehicles for our assimilation, American schools have attached to our longings alien aspirations for material wealth, money and power. How much of our creativity and our vision has already been laid to waste for the sake of these?","author":"Julian Aguon","tags":["chamoru","colonization","language","money","power"],"id":147320,"author_id":"Julian+Aguon"},{"text":"She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation.","author":"Thomas Pierce","tags":["colonization","planets","relationships","space","spaceships"],"id":161162,"author_id":"Thomas+Pierce"},{"text":"I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too happy it's within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me. Because their beautiful thinking ignores both history and human nature. Because they'd spoil my thing with their thing. Because I don't think any of them is wise enough to play God and create a human society. Look. I like privacy, I don't like crowds, I don't like noise, I don't like anarchy, I don't even like discussion all that much. I prefer study, which is very different from meditation-not better, different. I don't like children who are part of the wild life. So are polecats and rats and other sorts of hostile and untrained vermin. I want to make a distinction between civilization and the wild life. I want a society that will protect the wild life without confusing itself with it.","author":"Wallace Stegner","tags":["anarchy","civilization","colonization","commune","crowds","history","human-nature","idealism","noise","privacy","society","study","wild"],"id":169256,"author_id":"Wallace+Stegner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}