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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Colonial Everything Foreign Imported
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When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Colonial Country Fight Gain
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

American Because Colonies Impossible
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Anyone Colonial Complex Knows
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

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All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

About America Colonial Colonies
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Away Colonialism Describe Legacy
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Achieving Aid Better Colonialism
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

Back Balance Colonialism Fight
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Religious disintegration began with colonization.

Religious Disintegration Colonization
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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

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Robert Mugabe will be remembered, above all, for his immense contribution to the liberation of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa from imperialism, colonialism and racist rule. His dedication to the cause of Pan-Africanism is fully acknowledged.

Robert Mugabe Africa Imperialism Colonialism
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The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

Die Colonies Submit Retreat
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I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

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There is no history that can be wished away in human existence. Colonialism was a complex history that cannot be erased by demolishing a statue of an imperialist who built the very halls in which you sit to learn about evils of imperialism.

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It is impossible for us to speak about the history of education in Africa without thinking about colonialism.
About Africa Education History
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Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

Colonial atrocities Have prepared Soil
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If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

Condemn colonialism Colonial people Revolution
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

America Colonies Different Establishing
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It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, and promoted in a big way the awakening of the people of all countries, especially those of colonial and semi-colonial countries, thus exerting a sustaining influence on the development of human civilization.

Helped spread Basic values Freedom Equality
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Music ministers; Please don’t let your music be an extension of colonial rule, find your sound and keep it.

Music ministers An extension Colonial rule
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.

Trouble Military Ambition General
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As long as the neo-colonialists who pretend to be our friends succeed to set one section against another, they will ensure our continued dependence on them.

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This is a historic day for our nation, for it marks an important milestone in our march towards a maturing democracy. For the first time since we cast off the shackles of colonialism almost a half-century ago, we have at last managed an orderly transition from one elected government to another.

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57 years ago, Africa laid the foundations for its unity that had been undermined by colonization, by establishing a common organization, the OAU which became the African Union in 2002.

The foundations Been undermined Colonization By establishing
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We need a Decolonized Economy that would Put South Africans First.

We need Decolonized economy Put
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Entitlement, tribalism and the after taste of colonialism are the pillars of corruption.

Entitlement Tribalism Taste Colonialism
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Germany Needs to Own Up to the Horrors of Its Colonial Past in Africa.

Own up The horrors Colonial past
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The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.

State Health Individual Colon
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If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.

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