“My mother was often denied pain or not taken seriously. She was given the wrong medication during a hospital stay due to liver disease. Against her will and although she pointed this out several times. The side effects were very drastic, she lost a lot of weight, could no longer eat and had hardly any energy. Nevertheless, she was always told that she was exaggerating and that the treatment was the right one. Up to the point where her life was in real danger …”

I am, because we are; and since we are therefore I am.

I told him that it was not honourable for a woman to love anyone else except her husband, and that this evil being among them, he himself was not sure that his son, who was there present, was his son. He replied: “Thou hast no sense. You French people love only your own children; but we love all the children of our tribe.” I began to laugh, seeing that he philosophised in horse and mule fashion.

The barbarian princes cannot prevent their subjects from trading with the Spanish, and the Kings of Spain on their side cannot forbid the Spanish to trade with the Indians.

No government in the world would have tolerated having the main square of its capital occupied for eight weeks by tens of thousands of demonstrators who blocked the authorities from approaching the area in front of the main government building. (…) A crackdown was therefore inevitable. But its brutality was shocking (…)

Art. 3. There cannot exist slaves on this territory, servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born, live and die free.
Art. 4. All men, regardless of colour, are eligible to all employment.
Art. 5. There shall exist no distinction other than those based on virtue and talent, and other superiority afforded by law in the exercise of a public function. The law is the same for all whether in punishment or in protection.

What can we do apart from resisting? (…) It will not be easy to avenge their crimes against our people, for every step we take will be met with massive and arbitrary retribution. (…) But the destiny of our people on this earth is already certain. (…) We can either die with them or try to avenge their death. Our revenge will have to be unbridled and merciless.

And so they say we came to this earth to destroy the world. They say the winds ravage the houses and cut the trees and the fire scorches them. But we would devour everything, we would use up the earth, divert the rivers, we would never be quiet, would never rest, but always rush from here to there, looking for gold and silver, and then we would gamble with them, wage war, kill each other, rob each other, curse, never tell the truth, and we would have robbed them of their livelihood.

… for wherever it is found that the sheep of any soil yield a softer and richer wool than ordinary, there the nobility and gentry, and even those holy men, the abbots! not contented with the old rents which their farms yielded (…) They stop the course of agriculture, destroying houses and towns, reserving only the churches, and enclose grounds that they may lodge their sheep in them.

“Peoples of the World, we American Negroes appeal to you; our treatment in America is not merely an internal question of the United States. It is a basic problem of humanity; of democracy; of discrimination because of race and color […].”

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun… Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn, without making an effort worthy of our race? Shall we without a struggle, give up our homes, our lands, bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit? The graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will say with me, Never! Never!

Poor countries – and poor people – differ from rich ones not only in that they have less capital, but in that they have less knowledge (…) Even greater than the knowledge gap is the gap in the capacity to create knowledge.

„Following the dethronement of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II, as known for all, the Ottoman administration was taken over by the statesmen controlled by the Jewish League Zion and known as Committee for Union and Progress. The same Union and Progress organized its huge congress in Salonica with all of its parliamentarians on an October day of 1325 (1909) – whose exact date I cannot remember anymore. In a secret meeting, a smaller commission consisting of leading persons and chairmen answered the question of “How will be Turkey ruled?” which was posed by the Zionist League and its sub-organization East Jews Masonic Lodge with the following resolution listed as four points:

1-   The influence and power of the religion in Turkey will be ruptured,

2-   The financial resources of the country will be distributed among brothers,

3-   Caliphate will be disassociated from the sultanate and thus weakened,

4-   The republic will be declared and the dynasty eradicated at the earliest possible date.”

I was focusing on the politics—mass action, going to Bisho [site of a definitive showdown between demonstrators and police] (…) But that was not the real struggle—the real struggle was over economics. And I am disappointed in myself for being so naive.

Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food? (…) You see us unarmed, and willing to supply your wants, if you will come in a friendly manner, and not with swords and guns, as to invade an enemy. I am not so simple, as not to know it is better to eat good meat, lie well, and sleep quietly with my women and children; to laugh and be merry with the English; (…) I insist that the guns and swords, the cause of all our jealousy and uneasiness, be removed and sent away.

Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Give him a fishing rod and he can feed himself. Alternatively, don’t poison the fishing waters, abduct his great-grandparents into slavery, then turn up 400 years later on your gap year talking a lot of sh*te about fish.

Aboriginal women and families have been on the frontline all along trying to expose violence against indigenous women and its deep-seated roots, as well as to bring about chang. It has been more than 519 years that our women are still resisting colonial violence against us, our people, our nation and our land. It is the longest social movement in North America. To end violence for all people, aboriginal women must be at the epicenter of the solution.

England has a double mission to fulfil in India: one destructive and one renewing – the destruction of the old Asian social order and the laying of the material foundations of a Western social order in Asia. The Arabs, Turks, Tartars, Mughals, who invaded India one by one, were quickly Hinduised (…). The British conquerors were the first to reach a higher level of development and were therefore inaccessible to Hindu civilisation.

“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!”

“The natural laws and rules of men are common to all peoples, Christian and pagan, without distinction and no matter what their sect, law, status, color or origin may be.”

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