Author: historyiswhat

“How can we be united with French women when they participate in the colonisation of our country? Their slogans are simply designed to blind Kanak women from our real struggle.”

“I have every reservation about a neo-colonialist plan that would aim to maintain the French army on a territory still promised independence.”

“The Red Scarves attracted a big following around the ideas of revaluing Kanak culture, asserting power and reclaiming stolen Kanak land.”

“Kanak society at its origin is a classless society, relations of production and between men are linked to a philosophy that excludes all forms of domination, exploitation and oppression.”

“The appeal of the Zionists is the appeal of paranoia. But our survival as a people depends on loyalty to the essence of our cultural traditions: brotherhood and reconciliation.”

“But something must be done, for as long as the recurrent desire for Arab unity struggled with the political and economic handicaps the West had left them with, anything might happen to the precious oil supplies — even the dreaded Communism.”