Active Quote by Leon Trotsky

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized,…

— Nigel Gibson

Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain…

— Howard Zinn

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is…

— Kim Il-sung

“The history of colonization, imperialism is a record of betrayal, of lies, and deceits. The demand for that which is real is a demand…

— Bell Hooks

It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most…

— Robert Conquest

Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

— Bill McKibben

“Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be…

— Howard Zinn

The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of…

— Kwame Nkrumah

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

— Desmond Tutu

We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of…

— Judith Butler

Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into…

— Ghassan Andoni