quotes about Imperialism
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Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
-- Bill Ayers -
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
-- Charley Reese -
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.
-- Chiang Kai-shek -
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
-- Chiang Kai-shekSource : "The voice of China; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & co. ltd, 1944.
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We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
-- Edward Said -
Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas -
Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.
-- Hugo Chavez -
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The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism.
-- Hugo ChavezSource : "Chavez appears with Castro in TV broadcast" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. August 22, 2005.
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When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.
-- James Henry BreastedSource : James Henry Breasted (2010). “Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt”, p.315, Cosimo, Inc.
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Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
-- Karl Liebknecht -
Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.
-- Lin Biao -
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
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There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.
-- Rebecca West -
Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.
-- Robert GilpinSource : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.172, Princeton University Press
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We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.
-- Tommy DouglasSource : Tommy Douglas' speech at NDP National Convention in Ottawa, Ontario, April 21, 1971.
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Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
-- Unita BlackwellSource : Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
-- John Roberts