wrul (pre‐2023) quoted Insurgent Empire by Priyamvada Gopal
Both abolition and decolonization — twin outcomes of Britain’s expansionary colonial project over three centuries — are all too frequently regarded as deriving chiefly from the campaigning consciences of white British reformers or as the logical outcome of the liberal and liberalizing project that empire ostensibly always was, conquering in order to free.
— Insurgent Empire by Priyamvada Gopal (Page 3)