Asian Quote by Han Suyin

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers…

— Han Suyin

It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic,…

— Ash Sarkar

Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

— Camille Paglia

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to…

— C. L. R. James

“manufacturing false hierarchies based on race and gender in order to enforce a brutal class system is a very long story. Our modern capitalist…

— Naomi Klein

“The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to…

— CLR James

“The ability to discount darker people and darker nations in order to justify stealing their land and labor was foundational, and none of it…

— Naomi Klein

For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white;…

— Kwame Nkrumah

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa,…

— Loretta Napoleoni

The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“In truth, neither the narrative of oppression and exploitation nor that of ‘the White Man’s burden’ completely matches the facts. The European empires did…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is fair to say that we have witnessed an evolution in the United States from a racial caste system based entirely on exploitation…

— Michelle Alexander