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  • The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.

  • We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

    Country   Mother   Pay  
    Letter to a member of the Brent family, December 6, 1770.
  • A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

    Mother   Country   Party  
  • Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

    Country   Mother   Mind  
    Thomas Jefferson (2012). “Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

    Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press
  • Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.

    Mother   Country   Light  
    Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”
  • 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  • I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

  • If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties.

    Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1844). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.574
  • In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country.

  • England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

  • This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

    Mother   Country   Blood  
  • We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.

    Mother   Country   Taken  
  • A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

    Mother   Country   Land  
    Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.136, Vintage
  • Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

    Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.98, Image
  • We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.

    Mother   Country   Stars  
  • The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

    Rocks   Hands   World  
    William Ross Wallace, “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World”
  • The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

    "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.
  • A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!

    Mother   Country   Ocean  
  • Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

    Country   Mother   Bird  
  • Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

    Country   Mother   People  
    Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press
  • The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

    Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
  • Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

    Country   Mother   Mean  
  • Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

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