Han Suyin Quotes

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

A world divided into blocs, in which instead of solidarity, imperialism and exploitation hold sway, can only be a world structured in sin.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

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

You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

Property is organized robbery.

It is not right that a servile race should inhabit the same locality which their ancestors inhabited in power and glory.

A people that patiently lets itself be trampled, deserves to be trampled and crushed.

U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely, but with a fair degree of accuracy, as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.

Mexico seems a doomed victim to Anglo Saxon cupidity and love of dominion.

Imperialism dies hard, especially when there are people making money.

All the rivalries of nations have been reduced to this one - a degraded struggle for their share of the spoils of barbarous countries to be used at home for the purpose of increasing the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Slavery is the first form of Globalization in which America participated.

How long can we keep kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?

Throughout history, people with few educational or economic resources and little bargaining power have often looked to authoritarian, ruthless people to stand up for them.