Adam Hochschild Quotes

America was not discovered. America was built.

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

No new state is ever fully ready for independence ..

The test of a good colonial policy is that it shall prepare colonies for independent self—government.

Iraq may be able to run along in a corrupt, inefficient, oriental sort of way, something better than she was under Turkish rule…. If this is the result, even though it be not a very splendid one, we shall have built better than we know.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Our job is to make people free.

If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

One of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.

Each nation has to find its own path and follow that path at its own speed.

Liberty Enlightening the World

We cannot impose democracy where it has no constituency.

Be it for the defense, or be it for the assertion of a nation’s liberty, I look upon the sword as a sacred weapon …. Abhor and stigmatize the sword? No, no, my lord, for at its blow a giant nation sprang from the waters of the Atlantic and by its redeeming magic, and in the quivering of its crimson light, the fettered Colony became a daring free Republic—prosperous, limitless and invincible.

I would rather die as an Indian than live as a white man.

We want democracy, we want human rights, we want civil liberties, but we will do it our way.