colonial quotes

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to impose the views of the revolutionists on the British government and large sections of the colonial populationat whatevercosttofreedomofopinionor the sanctity of life and property.

- Arthur Meier Schlesinger
  'TheAmerican Revolution Reconsidered', in Political Science Quarterly, Mar.

But we live like our names and you would have to be colonial to know the difference, to know the pain of history words contain.

- Derek Alton Walcott
  The Star-Apple Kingdom,'The Schooner Flight', pt.6.