Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Instruction! Instruction! is what the Boers lack above all else; they call themselves Christians, and Kaffirs and Hottentots heathen, and for this reason they believe that they are permitted anything.

White Man’s Road Thru Black Man’s Home!

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

For people who have been slaves for 150 years doing all the work to be called lazy and shiftless by the man who was sitting on the porch—that is a phenomenon in itself.

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

The biggest of all Indian problems is the white man.

The Cambodians [Khmer] are so stupid that we must frighten them. Ordinary moral suasion has no effect.

Now in speaking like this, it doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. And if the white man doesn't want us to be anti-him, let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading us.

African slaves, the substratum of our society is made of the material fitted by nature for it.

“Slavery always degrades labor. The white people who work with their hands are ranked with the other laborers— the slaves ... They feel that they are degraded and despised.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.