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It’s very uncomfortable for all of us, but it does at least focus us on our past, on colonization, on what our society is, on what we might want it to be, and how we, particularly on this day, see and understand and recognize the experiences of First Nations people. – Kate Darian-Smith	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My feeling is that we should start having good Congolese-Belgium relations again, like before, despite what the Belgians did to us during colonization, we are ready to forgive. – Antoine Mubidiki	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Your identity and culture has been wounded, many families separated, many children have become victims of this homogenization action, supported by the idea that progress occurs through ideological colonization, according to programs studied at the table rather than respecting the lives of peoples. – The Argentine pope	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Jews has been in that area of the world since about 1200 B.C., way before the first Muslim or Arab walked the earth. ... I mean, Jerusalem was their capital. So if it's who got there first, it's not even close, the Jews were the ones who were occupied by everybody ; the Romans took over at some point and then the Persians and the Byzantines and then the Ottomans. So yes, there was colonization going on there. Beginning in the 19th century, they started to return to Palestine, which was never an Arab country. There was never a country called Palestine that was a distinct Arab country. – Bill Maher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is treaty area for the Fond du Lac Band( of Lake Superior Chippewa). And, once again, we are going to bear the brunt of colonization, these will be new colonizers coming to the area, but it's going to because they're going to come here for reasons that have nothing to do with anything that Tribal people have done. – Karen Diver	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The climate crisis really emerged from interlocking systems of capitalism, resource extraction, racism, patriarchy and colonization, it’s beyond past time to end the tragic cycle of endless economic growth based on sacrificed peoples and sacrificed lands. – Osprey Orielle Lake	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story' The Witcher : Blood Origin.' A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books -- What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans ? i've always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization's true story behind. – The Witcher	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are living under a government that uses fake news and lies to harm the indigenous population, we are having to fight against a new colonization by resorting to ethno-media to tell the truth about us. – Erik Terena	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The root cause of our problem is colonization, and this has never been touched upon in past talks. – Pak Fakir	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
John Kerry cannot come on May 30. It's postponed, it will take place, it will take place in the course of the summer, this initiative is necessary because if nothing happens, if there is no strong French initiative, then colonization, attacks, terrorist attacks and several conflicts are going to continue. – French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Invasive species ruin aquatic communities and their ecosystems, the EPA appeared to the take the path of least resistance by adopting an existing international standard that is inadequate to prevent their colonization. – Allison LaPlante	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century. – Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago

It’s very uncomfortable for all of us, but it does at least focus us on our past, on colonization, on what our society is, on what we might want it to be, and how we, particularly on this day, see and understand and recognize the experiences of First Nations people.

– Kate Darian-Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My feeling is that we should start having good Congolese-Belgium relations again, like before, despite what the Belgians did to us during colonization, we are ready to forgive.

– Antoine Mubidiki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your identity and culture has been wounded, many families separated, many children have become victims of this homogenization action, supported by the idea that progress occurs through ideological colonization, according to programs studied at the table rather than respecting the lives of peoples.

– The Argentine pope

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Jews has been in that area of the world since about 1200 B.C., way before the first Muslim or Arab walked the earth. ... I mean, Jerusalem was their capital. So if it's who got there first, it's not even close, the Jews were the ones who were occupied by everybody ; the Romans took over at some point and then the Persians and the Byzantines and then the Ottomans. So yes, there was colonization going on there. Beginning in the 19th century, they started to return to Palestine, which was never an Arab country. There was never a country called Palestine that was a distinct Arab country.

– Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is treaty area for the Fond du Lac Band( of Lake Superior Chippewa). And, once again, we are going to bear the brunt of colonization, these will be new colonizers coming to the area, but it's going to because they're going to come here for reasons that have nothing to do with anything that Tribal people have done.

– Karen Diver

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The climate crisis really emerged from interlocking systems of capitalism, resource extraction, racism, patriarchy and colonization, it’s beyond past time to end the tragic cycle of endless economic growth based on sacrificed peoples and sacrificed lands.

– Osprey Orielle Lake

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story' The Witcher : Blood Origin.' A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books -- What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans ? i've always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization's true story behind.

– The Witcher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are living under a government that uses fake news and lies to harm the indigenous population, we are having to fight against a new colonization by resorting to ethno-media to tell the truth about us.

– Erik Terena

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The root cause of our problem is colonization, and this has never been touched upon in past talks.

– Pak Fakir

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

John Kerry cannot come on May 30. It's postponed, it will take place, it will take place in the course of the summer, this initiative is necessary because if nothing happens, if there is no strong French initiative, then colonization, attacks, terrorist attacks and several conflicts are going to continue.

– French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Invasive species ruin aquatic communities and their ecosystems, the EPA appeared to the take the path of least resistance by adopting an existing international standard that is inadequate to prevent their colonization.

– Allison LaPlante

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

– Henry Miller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.

– Med Jones

added by seattle29
13 years ago

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