Decolonization Quotes

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

The black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of white supremacy and an adoption of values and traditions endowed from the black experience.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.

The 20th century was not only a century of totalitarian systems and wars. It was also the century of decolonization, of a great liberation. Three quarters of the residents of our planet freed themselves from colonial subjugation and - at least formally - became fully entitled citizens of the world. There never had been such an event in all history, and never will be again.

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

I was a hardliner with regard to colonialism, which had occupied Africa and large parts of the world. We were waging an armed struggle, and therefore, one had to be strong. But now, no one asks for weapons but for economic aid, which changes your position.

… there is a notion of exchanging Hong Kong for a more healthy colony.

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.

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

Visit to Africa reshaped my point-of-view of colonialism. It reshaped my point-of-view of my own sense of source, and my own place of birth. It made it more organic inside of me, because it placed me in a position where my job was to understand and to become more African.

All my people want is independence under a protectorate.

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

The Americans will have no interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England, when they are not oppressed by the weight of it …

To make a union with Great Britain would be fusion with a corpse.

A whiter, brighter Rhodesia

Africa for the Africans.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

The achievement of independence for my own country will be fragmentary and incomplete so long as one square inch of African soil remains unfree.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

Native American activists have been present as long as the Europeans have been working to colonize us.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

We will bring imperialism to its knees.