Sun Yat-sen Quotes

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won't change easily overnight.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.

The Chinese people don't get to vote but they do get to grumble.

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.

The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white.

I am one of the forgotten (in this land), one of the faceless ones, a Native American. I am One from whom this Land was stolen through the use of Deceit, through Lies, through Ravage, through Rape, through Pillage. I am one of those who knows the degradation continues...

When the people are sheep, the government is always a wolf.

The truth that we are required to face about the slave trade is that it was founded on violence and terror … not done to Americans but done by Americans to others.

Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb.

Great Britain is a tyrant state. They are not worthy to be our bretheren.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction; from the point of view of the proletariat the difference between the types of reaction is meaningless.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative. the history of the capsulize era is characterized by the degradation of my people: despoiled of their lands, their true culture destroyed...denied equal protection of the law, and deprived their rightful place in the respect of their fellows.

The Declaration of Independence was written by white men for white men.

If ... America is to become an empire, there is very little chance that it can avoid becoming a virtual dictatorship as well.

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

… to go at once and establish a perfectly despotic government in Quebec, contrary to the genius and spirit of the British Constitution, carries with it the appearance of a love of despotism, and a settled design to enslave the American people.

Italians must learn to be less sympathetic, to become hard, implacable, hateful masters

The effects of U.S. intervention in Latin America have been overwhelming negative. They have had the effect of reinforcing brutal and unjust social systems and crushing people who are fighting for what we would actually call “American values.” In many cases, … we actually overthrew governments that had principles similar to ours and replaced those … leaders with people who detest everything the United States stands for.

“You are dictatorial.” My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

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.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe. Chavez the tyrant! Chavez the strongman! Chavez, who wants to stay forever. While there, they have kings, my friend!