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Singapore continues to be governed using the same values, institutions and assumptions that underpinned British colonialism so the government can not reject or repudiate colonialism without also criticizing its own values, institutions and methods of governance. – Thum Ping Tjin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think it's absolutely justified to say,' We need, finally, some real commitment to addressing loss and damage from climate change, a lot of what leads to disaster is related to existing vulnerabilities and not to human-caused climate change. But of course, the Global North plays a very large role in that as well, because a lot of these vulnerabilities are from colonialism and so on. So there is a... very huge responsibility for the Global North to finally do something real and not just talk. – Friederike Otto	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For gender, myself, it’s been a constant struggle under colonialism, not to accept and affirm myself, but to find acceptance and affirmation and understanding outside of myself. – Ganesha Gold Buffalo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
My first introduction to colonialism looked a lot like me waking up at four in the morning, five in the morning, every morning, to sounds of my ancestors screaming from outside my window, coming from the ground, coming from the earth, i followed those screams into the woods as a child … and was taught by my ancestors in those woods, in the forms of nature spirits, in the forms of elementals, in the forms of natural deities and old gods. While I was out there, I was taught many things and my mind was decolonized. – Ganesha Gold Buffalo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There has been such an awakening of how racism, capitalism, colonialism, enslavement of people, has impacted our everyday lives and people are starting to see how problematic two people who have directly benefited from colonialism and the Empire, walking around, smiling and laughing, how that actually is not adding anything to these countries, there's absolutely no need for them. What do they represent ? What is the message that you're saying when you're sending people who have colonized, stolen from other countries, and you're sending representatives over there ? For what ? I don't understand what the purpose is of them unless it's to go and apologize, and to start talking about how you repair the damage. – Naomi Evans	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As the first stewards of the land and ocean, our traditional knowledge can guide the way, all together we hold the keys to solving the issues of militarization, climate change and climate colonialism. We are not passive victims. I am here to amplify the voices of those who live on the frontlines. – Sheila Babauta	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Congress, like education, like every American institution, is rooted in European settler colonialism and white supremacy. – Jamaal Bowman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm Blake Flayton. I'm Blake Flayton. I kill babies. I'm Blake Flayton. I am Blake Flayton. I support ethnic cleansing and colonialism, i get more death threats than my parents would probably like to know about. – Blake Flayton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The [Columbus] statue is really a tribute to genocide, colonialism, religious intolerance, racism, gender violence, and white supremacy. There are mixed feelings among locals, but Taíno and other Indigenous peoples of Borikén [an Indigenous name for the island] would like to see it gone, as it is looked upon as an embarrassment. – Roberto Mukaro Borrero	added by oirrc 3 years ago
The 'Great' in Great Britain was predicated on slavery and colonialism. And its legacy we still live with today, the structures that lock people out - that's not wallowing in victimhood, that's an honest conversation. And we need to confront that. – Simon Woolley	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The full decolonization of Mauritius, and of Africa, is long overdue, the ICJ has made The ICJ clear that this must be accomplished today and not tomorrow. Only then the Africans can be free and the continent can aspire to live free of colonialism. – Namira Negm	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The issue of salary delays is a temporary problem. It's not a reason for teachers, doctors and nurses to go on strike. Most of them don't understand where we have come from during times of colonialism. – Zimbabwe Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
One hundred years ago, two officials by the name of Mark Sykes and Francois-George Picot tried to dictate a new order in the Middle East. It was at the apex of the era of colonialism in our era. This effort utterly failed then, and will completely fail today. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The paper is simply impossible to read with a straight face. It employs liberal buzzwords -- colonialism, marginalization, masculinist discourses, etc. -- with such frequency that the entire thing comes off like a joke. – The University of Oregon	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Everybody ... asks, Andy, how can you support the guy? I have to be able to sleep at night. So I have answered that: I believe Junipero Serra was a very, very good man in a very, very bad situation. And the bad situation is what we call colonialism, junipero Serra is being proclaimed a saint because he lived the life of a saint. – Andrew Galvan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our protest is to tell the Pope that by canonizing Junipero Serra, they want to canonize colonialism, they want to canonize white supremacy and they want to canonize the genocide of our people. And that is an immoral act. – Olin Tezcatlipoca	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This isn't racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism. – Giuliani Giuliani	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I thought that was a joke, since (Obama) was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, this isn't racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism. – Giuliani Giuliani	Found on CNN 9 years ago

Singapore continues to be governed using the same values, institutions and assumptions that underpinned British colonialism so the government can not reject or repudiate colonialism without also criticizing its own values, institutions and methods of governance.

– Thum Ping Tjin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it's absolutely justified to say,' We need, finally, some real commitment to addressing loss and damage from climate change, a lot of what leads to disaster is related to existing vulnerabilities and not to human-caused climate change. But of course, the Global North plays a very large role in that as well, because a lot of these vulnerabilities are from colonialism and so on. So there is a... very huge responsibility for the Global North to finally do something real and not just talk.

– Friederike Otto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For gender, myself, it’s been a constant struggle under colonialism, not to accept and affirm myself, but to find acceptance and affirmation and understanding outside of myself.

– Ganesha Gold Buffalo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My first introduction to colonialism looked a lot like me waking up at four in the morning, five in the morning, every morning, to sounds of my ancestors screaming from outside my window, coming from the ground, coming from the earth, i followed those screams into the woods as a child … and was taught by my ancestors in those woods, in the forms of nature spirits, in the forms of elementals, in the forms of natural deities and old gods. While I was out there, I was taught many things and my mind was decolonized.

– Ganesha Gold Buffalo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There has been such an awakening of how racism, capitalism, colonialism, enslavement of people, has impacted our everyday lives and people are starting to see how problematic two people who have directly benefited from colonialism and the Empire, walking around, smiling and laughing, how that actually is not adding anything to these countries, there's absolutely no need for them. What do they represent ? What is the message that you're saying when you're sending people who have colonized, stolen from other countries, and you're sending representatives over there ? For what ? I don't understand what the purpose is of them unless it's to go and apologize, and to start talking about how you repair the damage.

– Naomi Evans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As the first stewards of the land and ocean, our traditional knowledge can guide the way, all together we hold the keys to solving the issues of militarization, climate change and climate colonialism. We are not passive victims. I am here to amplify the voices of those who live on the frontlines.

– Sheila Babauta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Congress, like education, like every American institution, is rooted in European settler colonialism and white supremacy.

– Jamaal Bowman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm Blake Flayton. I'm Blake Flayton. I kill babies. I'm Blake Flayton. I am Blake Flayton. I support ethnic cleansing and colonialism, i get more death threats than my parents would probably like to know about.

– Blake Flayton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The [Columbus] statue is really a tribute to genocide, colonialism, religious intolerance, racism, gender violence, and white supremacy. There are mixed feelings among locals, but Taíno and other Indigenous peoples of Borikén [an Indigenous name for the island] would like to see it gone, as it is looked upon as an embarrassment.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero

added by oirrc
3 years ago

The 'Great' in Great Britain was predicated on slavery and colonialism. And its legacy we still live with today, the structures that lock people out - that's not wallowing in victimhood, that's an honest conversation. And we need to confront that.

– Simon Woolley

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The full decolonization of Mauritius, and of Africa, is long overdue, the ICJ has made The ICJ clear that this must be accomplished today and not tomorrow. Only then the Africans can be free and the continent can aspire to live free of colonialism.

– Namira Negm

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The issue of salary delays is a temporary problem. It's not a reason for teachers, doctors and nurses to go on strike. Most of them don't understand where we have come from during times of colonialism.

– Zimbabwe Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

One hundred years ago, two officials by the name of Mark Sykes and Francois-George Picot tried to dictate a new order in the Middle East. It was at the apex of the era of colonialism in our era. This effort utterly failed then, and will completely fail today.

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The paper is simply impossible to read with a straight face. It employs liberal buzzwords -- colonialism, marginalization, masculinist discourses, etc. -- with such frequency that the entire thing comes off like a joke.

– The University of Oregon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Everybody ... asks, Andy, how can you support the guy? I have to be able to sleep at night. So I have answered that: I believe Junipero Serra was a very, very good man in a very, very bad situation. And the bad situation is what we call colonialism, junipero Serra is being proclaimed a saint because he lived the life of a saint.

– Andrew Galvan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our protest is to tell the Pope that by canonizing Junipero Serra, they want to canonize colonialism, they want to canonize white supremacy and they want to canonize the genocide of our people. And that is an immoral act.

– Olin Tezcatlipoca

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This isn't racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.

– Giuliani Giuliani

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I thought that was a joke, since (Obama) was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, this isn't racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.

– Giuliani Giuliani

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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