Quotes of Colonization - somelinesforyou

“ Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States… ”

- John Adams

“ The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. ”

- James Monroe

“ The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. ”

- Slobodan Milosevic

“ Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ 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… ”

- Henry Miller
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