I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.” — Peter Heather Copy Share Image
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.” — Michael Kazin Copy Share Image
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was in large part a critique of imperialism. We often associate opposition to imperialism with Marxism and… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the… — Tim Buck Copy Share Image
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The President certainly did not take amiss Churchill’s excitement over Mediterranean operations, or even the Prime Minister’s loyalty to a decaying British… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are not anti-American. We do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous.… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Community after community is rising up, ranchers, developers, environmentalists, and local commissioners, all saying this is not the best use of our… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
I think it is inevitable that leftist forces in the US would be divided, if not balkanized, to some extent. Among the… — Robert Pollin Copy Share Image
“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“European imperialism was entirely unlike all other imperial projects in history. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The absolute monarch was supposed to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, to be the visible exponent and proof… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.” — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“A country bent on conquest is necessarily a country internally enslaved.” — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since. — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
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