American Imperialism Quotes:

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

- Paul Robeson

source: Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

topic: Fighting, Movement, Resistance, American Imperialism

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Peace, America, Independence, Isolationism, American Imperialism

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

- Mark Twain

topic: War, Eagles, Land, Talons, American Imperialism

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

topic: War, Truth Is, Imperialism, Strategic, American Imperialism

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Presidential, Sticks, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Wise Proverbs

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.

- Tariq Ali

source: Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

topic: Names, Way, Imperialism, American Imperialism

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

- Ashley Montagu

source: Ashley Montagu (1958). “Education and Human Relations”

topic: World, Danger, North Korea, Taliban, American Imperialism

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

- Angela Davis

topic: Struggle, Fighting, People, Affiliation, American Imperialism

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

- C. L. R. James

topic: Historical, Today, Commodity, Grandiose, American Imperialism

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

- Peter Kuznick

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Home, Stories, Flip, American Imperialism

American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less resilient enemy, the American people. Here, the prospects for success are much greater. The battleground is ideological, not military. At stake are the lessons to be drawn from the American war in Indochina; the outcome will determine the course and character of new imperial ventures.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: chomsky.info

topic: Military, War, Character, Indochina, American Imperialism

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

- Walter E. Williams

topic: Men, Government, Consent, Independence And Freedom, Secession

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 Douglas

source: Tommy Douglas' speech at NDP National Convention in Ottawa, Ontario, April 21, 1971.

topic: Imperialism, Plain Speaking, Said, Anti-american, American Imperialism

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

- Karl Liebknecht

topic: Groups, Creation, Imperialism, American Imperialism

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Islamic, Mean, Thinking, American Imperialism

It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.

- Alejandro Castro Espin

source: "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

topic: Country, Thinking, Political, Political Systems, American Imperialism

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

- Hugh Walpole

source: Hugh Walpole (2007). “Fortitude”, p.350, 1st World Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Play, American Imperialism

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

- Fredric Jameson

source: Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

topic: Country, War, Agreement, American Imperialism

Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

- Tim Buck

source: "Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1957.

topic: Giving Up, Circles, Allies, American Imperialism

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

- Nikita Khrushchev

topic: Order, President, Toady, American Imperialism

Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse.

- Anthony Bourdain

source: "Anthony Bourdain Talks Travel, Food, and War". Interview with John Little, blogsofwar.com. July 20, 2014.

topic: Hate, Self, Talking, Zionist, Cia Agents

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

- Fredric Jameson

source: Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

topic: Games, Culture, Reassuring, American Imperialism, Mass Culture

Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

- Jennifer Beals

source: PlanetOut Inc. Interview, 2004.

topic: Love Is, World, Dangerous, Murphys Law, Taliban