I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people…

“Cultivating an ethic of responsibility begins with nonnatives understanding ourselves as beneficiaries of the illegal settlement of indigenous people's land, and unjust appropriation of…

— Harsha Walia

So, transform yourself first… Because you are young and have dreams and want to do something meaningful, that in itself, makes you our future…

— Yuri Kochiyama

“The West broke the world, now the human race gotta resurrect the world, offspring of the terrorists and terrorized alike - but we can…

— Abhijit Naskar

My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we…

— Max Roach

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

— Octavio Paz

A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in…

— Lesslie Newbigin

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

— Ibn Warraq

An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has…

— Pope John Paul II

“Western society has in the past few decades taken a great step forward, which gives its members a perhaps unparalleled opportunity. This has been…

— Idries Shah

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

“The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands either to…

— N.T. Wright

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant…

— Raoul Peck

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to…

— Lewis Mumford

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

— Eckhart Tolle