Tom Tancredo Quotes

The lessons of history are taught by the victors.

Be committed to … smashing feudalists, conservatives, and imperialists who are "reactionaries".

Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Our battle is against the bourgeoisie as the enemy of German Socialism and the saboteur of national freedom.

The socialist or anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions is to be regarded as attacking the foundation upon which civilization itself rests.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed-upon myth of its conquerors.

They do not even believe in God any more and … want to turn everything upside down in the apparent beautiful name of freedom and equality.

These white people think this country belongs to them—they don't realize that they are only in charge right now because there's more of them than there are of us. The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedly-ass pilgrims that came over here in the 1500s. And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass Indians to do the same, and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass Indians.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”

There is a Communist conspiracy to further or participate in the invasion of Mississippi.

I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.

I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.

People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.

Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.