Charles George Chinese Gordon Quotes

The role of the inhabitants of the American hemisphere has for centuries been purely passive. Politically they were nonexistent. We are still in a position lower than slavery, and therefore it is more difficult for us to rise to the enjoyment of freedom.

Disenfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

People have nothing to lose. Government has stripped them of their dignity and their respect.

Belgium’s deplorable record of inhumanity as a colonial power in the Congo was surpassed only by that of Germany in South-West Africa.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

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

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

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 feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.

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.