Not Stolen Quotes

“Worse, it teaches them to think of modern American capitalism and democracy as enemies, and to think of modern western economic and legal systems as oppressive, rather than what they really are: the greatest creators of opportunity and wealth the world has ever seen.”
― Jeff Fynn-Paul, Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World

“When McGill professor of religious studies Arvind Sharma posed the question Are Human Rights Western? in his 2006 book, his conclusion was “yes.” The global discourse of human rights as we know it today is fundamentally European in its pedigree. Thus, for every ten freebooters bullying their way into a fortune, there was always a Las Casas, a Queen Isabella, a William Wilberforce, or simply a humble local pastor ready to call such ruffians out for their cruelty. We simply do not find such a plethora of humanitarian sentiment in most traditional cultures, where individual human rights are normally subsumed under the rights of powerful men, institutions, and family honor.”
― Jeff Fynn-Paul, Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World

“The pattern in the New World is similar to what happened during the European colonization of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. In all those regions Europeans gained near-total political power for a time, but they continued to remain a small minority of the population. No one bothers to claim that Europeans committed “genocide” in these Old World regions; but in the New World and Australia, they take advantage of low initial population densities in some regions to press unsubstantiated claims of mass slaughter.”
― Jeff Fynn-Paul, Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World

“know of no more efficient way to create poverty, despair and violence in native communities than to teach identity politics and identity history.”
― Jeff Fynn-Paul, Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World