200 Quotes About Imperialism
- Author Louis Yako
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In many ways, the language, the sect, and the ethnicity are the IDs in post-U.S. occupation Iraq—the 'new Iraq'.
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- Author Naomi Mitchison
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VICTRIX CAVSA DIIS PLACVIT SED VICTA PVELLIS
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- Author George Orwell
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Empire– in essence nothing but mechanisms for exploiting coloured labor.
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- Author Noam Chomsky
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It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.
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- Author Eduardo Galeano
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Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs.
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- Author Michael Moore
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[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
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- Author Bell Hooks
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Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels, as well as a commitment to reorganizing society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires.
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- Author Joseph Conrad
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the takingit away from those who have a different complexion or slightlyflatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you lookinto it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at theback of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and anunselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow downbefore, and offer a sacrifice to…
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- Author Christopher Hitchens
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Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)
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