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"You cannot proceed to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—in that location has to be a limit" ― Edward Said
"Until the lions take their own historians, the history of the hunt will e'er glorify the hunter." ― Chinua Achebe (Writer)
"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial guild. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. Nosotros are possibly the only nation which tried every bit a affair of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we take not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are nevertheless taught to respect the violence which reduced a cherry-red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations." ― Dr. Martin Luther Rex Jr.
"Really—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine merits underlay not but 'the occupation' only the whole idea of a separate country for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy State and where were you, and what were you? Simply another country-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this instance you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—'a land without a people for a people without a state'—disclosed its own negation when I saw the densely populated Arab towns abode sullenly under Jewish tutelage. Yous want irony? How near Jews becoming colonizers at but the moment when other Europeans had given upwards on the idea?" ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
"The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they vest to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn't have to be some other land. It can be the past instead—the Usa as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks.
This country of listen allows too many of usa to prevarication and cheat and steal from the residual of us, to sell the states junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of u.s.a., after all, but sub-man aborigines?" ― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard
"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed past President Richard G. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Flesh." As the United states of america was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would damage no one on a lifeless stone." ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Futurity in Space
"I detest imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of ane small corner of the world" ― Soekarno
"Suppose that a human leaps out of a burning building—every bit my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a tabular array at La Tomate in Washington not 2 years ago—and lands on a bystander in the street below. At present, brand the burning building be Europe, and the luckless man underneath be the Palestinian Arabs. Is this a historical injustice? Has the man below been made a victim, with space cause of complaint and indefinite justification for violent retaliation? My ain answer would exist a provisional 'no,' simply only on these conditions. The homo leaping from the burning edifice must still make such restitution as he can to the man who broke his autumn, and must not pretend that he never fifty-fifty landed on him. And he must base his case on the singularity and uniqueness of the original leap. Information technology can't, in other words, be 'leap, spring, jump' for four generations and more. The people underneath cannot be expected to tolerate leaping on this scale and of this duration, if you grab my drift. In Palestine, tread softly, for you tread on their dreams. And exercise not tell the Palestinians that they were never fallen upon and bruised in the kickoff identify. Exercise not shame yourself with the cheap lie that they were told by their leaders to run abroad. As well, stop proverb that nobody knew how to cultivate oranges in Jaffa until the Jews showed them how. 'Making the desert bloom'—one of Yvonne'southward stock phrases—makes desert dwellers out of people who were the agricultural superiors of the Crusaders." ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
"Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa'south souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa go along to let its wealth meet the needs of those exterior its borders and so follow behind with easily outstretched for a loan of the very wealth information technology let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the toll of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?" ― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow
"Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything almost them. Nosotros sentry their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade educatee in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, arable gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Just the nearly enlightened teachers will explain that this globe certainly wasn't new to the millions of ethnic people who already lived hither when Columbus arrived." ― Wilma Mankiller, Every Mean solar day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Gimmicky Ethnic Women
"Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. Information technology contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to encounter the needs of the female parent country's industries, thereby allowing sure sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. Just the rest of the colony follows its path of under-evolution and poverty, or at all events sinks into information technology more deeply." ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
"I regard anti-Semitism equally ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which organized religion has infected us. Possibly partly for this reason, I accept never been able to see Zionism equally a cure for it. American and British and French Jews have told me with perfect sincerity that they are always prepared for the day when 'it happens again' and the Jew-baiters have over. (And I don't pretend not to know what they are talking about: I have actually seen the rabid phenomenon at work in modern and sunny Argentine republic and am unable to forget it.) And so then, they seem to think, they will take refuge in the Law of Return, and in Haifa, or for all I know in Hebron. Never listen for at present that if all of world Jewry did settle in Palestine, this would actually necessitate further Israeli expansion, expulsion, and colonization, and that their departure under these apocalyptic conditions would leave the new brownshirts and blackshirts in possession of the French and British and American nuclear arsenals. This is ghetto thinking, hardly fifty-fifty fractionally updated to accept into account what has changed. The important simply delayed realization will have to come: Israeli Jews are a part of the diaspora, non a group that has escaped from it. Why else does Israel daily beseech the oftentimes-flourishing Jews of other lands, urging them to help the most endangered Jews of all: the ones who dominion Palestine by force of arms? Why else, having supposedly escaped from the demand to rely on Gentile goodwill, has Israel come to depend more and more upon it? On this reckoning, Zionism must constitute i of the greatest potential non sequiturs in human history." ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
"It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly but if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of operations of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than whatever white homo that ever lived. The very middle of whiteness." ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
"Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a boyfriend can let his pants downward and relax, relish the odour of his own shit." ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity'southward Rainbow
"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?" ― Anthony Burgess
"To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is just this absence of wish, this lack of interest, this indifference, this automatic fashion of classifying him, imprisoning him, primitivizing him, decivilizing him, that makes him angry.
If a man who speaks pidgin to a man of color or an Arab does not see anything wrong or evil in such behavior, it is because he has never stopped to think." ― Frantz Fanon, Black Pare, White Masks
"America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The lord's day has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies beingness systematically robbed of every valuable resource. United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist past charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and fifty-fifty themselves." ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر ازدادت ثقة الجمهور [الغربي] بالإستشراق. لكنه إذا كانت هذه الزيادة في الثقة قد تزامنت مع نقصان الإصالة، فلا ينبغي لنا أن ندهش كثيراً، لأن أسلوب الإستشراق منذ البداية كان يقوم على إعادة البناء والتكرار" ― Edward Westward. Said, Orientalism
"The oppressed peoples of the globe are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and activeness. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying." ― Alain Badiou, Movie house
"My ain concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own country, for two reasons. For one affair, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more of import reason than that; namely, I can practice something almost information technology. So even if the U.S. was responsible for 2 pct of the violence in the earth instead of the majority of information technology, information technology would be that two per centum I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. That is, the ethical value of ane's actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. Information technology is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value equally denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century." ― Noam Chomsky
"The people come to sympathize that wealth is not the fruit of labour just the consequence of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are zilch more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood." ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
"A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets." ― George Orwell, Burmese Days
"Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre." ― Olivier Weber
"We are laying the foundation for some new, monstrous civilization. Just now do I realize what price was paid for building the ancient civilizations. The Egyptian pyramids, the temples and Greek statues—what a hideous criminal offence they were! How much blood must have poured on to the Roman roads, the bulwarks, and the city walls. Artifact—the tremendous concentration camp where the slave was branded on the forehead by his chief, and crucified for trying to escape! Artifact—the conspiracy of the free men against the slaves! .... If the Germans win the state of war, what will the globe know most us? They volition erect huge buildings, highways, factories, soaring monuments. Our hands will be placed under every brick, and our backs volition carry the steel rails and the slabs of physical. They will kill off our families, our sick, our aged. They will murder our children. And we shall be forgotten, drowned out past the voices of the poets, the jurists, the philosophers, the priests. They will produce their own beauty, virtue, and truth. They volition produce faith." ― Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
"No ane starts a war warning that those involved volition lose their innocence - that children volition definitely die and be forever lost as a consequence of the conflict; that the war will not terminate for generations and generations, even after cease-fires accept been declared and peace treaties have been signed. No one starts a war that fashion, simply they should. It would at to the lowest degree be off-white warning and an honest admission: even a expert state of war - if there is such a thing - will kill anyone former plenty to die." ― Alexandra Fulller
"I really knew nothing about the dancing habits of the Scottish. But I wanted to aid. "I could teach them Indian folk dances," I offered, scrounging my mind for schoolhouse dances in gaudy garments.
"Well, I'm not sure that they would be complex plenty for competitions," she said. Pursing her lips, she blushed a dark, deep red. I knew I had said something wrong, simply it took me a few days to empathise the reason for Miss Manson's disapproval and discomfort. She blushed a beetroot red because I had unwittingly questioned the cadre belief of the schoolhouse: British was Ameliorate." ― Nayana Currimbhoy, Miss Timmins' Schoolhouse for Girls
"[The] association of wealth with whites and poverty with blacks is not adventitious. It is the nature of the imperialist relationship that enriches the metropolis at the expense of the colony i.e. information technology makes the whites richer and the blacks poorer." ― Walter Rodney, The Groundings with My Brothers
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