Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument!
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The statement romanticizes a colonizer's impact without addressing its harms.
Columbus' government was characterised by a form of tyranny... Even those who loved him had to admit the atrocities that had taken place. Now one can understan…
He gave the world another world.
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fette…
Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never a…
And thus He mused: 'From here, indeed Shall we strike terror in the Swede? And here a city by our labor Founded, shall gall our haughty neighbor; 'Here cut' - …
La gloire est le soleil des morts.