“The point here is that as the overriding aim was to preserve the Empire, peace with a Greater Germany — a fascist empire — was a conceivable option for British policy-makers, if only the Empire could be safeguarded.”
Author: historyiswhat
“Deportation as such, whether to a fascist-ruled country or not, is unjust, willful, and an insult to every one who holds ideas of Justice and Freedom as above those of ruthless exploitation and rulership.”
“So much for Freedom under Democracy… So much for the real aims of the Allies.”
“I am overwhelmed with a view of the injustice of my country to the suffering Indians!”
“What is called human government is usurpation, imposture, demagogueism, peculation, swindling and tyranny, more or less, according to circumstances, and to the intellectual and moral condition of the people.”
“…many see in ‘foreigners’ the cause of economic distress… This is evidently a stupid error…”
“The tribes have faced tremendous odds in this ceaseless battle. In addition to the machinery of state government, the news media had been attempting to write the Indians’ obituary daily.”
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We Are Not Free – Clyde Warrior (1967)
“We are not allowed to make those basic human choices and decisions about our personal life and about the destiny of our communities which is the mark of free mature people.”
“In short, we need to grapple with men as they are, events as they emerge and reap maximum possible advantage for the success of our ideas.”
“I have served the United States in a less compelling struggle in Vietnam and will not be restricted from doing less for my People within the United States.”
“…think not that you are safe and out of danger while you are under the wings of the flesh-devouring eagle of America, which protects the liberties of fugitives from Southern bondage as the wolf protects the lamb.”
“I’m on my way to Canada,
That cold and dreary land;
The dire effects of Slavery
I can no longer stand.”
“No policeman’s club adorned their thoroughfares!”
“…we would consent to eat at no other [table]…”
“Having at this moment a very strong belief that we, as natives of this country, and as half-breeds, have the right to hunt furs in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territories whenever we think proper…”
“The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, and a Ladies’ Society at Toronto, provide these Refugees with food, clothing, tools, or whatever they require, until they procure employment and can support themselves.”
“I was always at odds with the socialists, because they said we shouldn’t rush things, we should let time do its work for the Revolution…”
“We want to save Morocco from colonial exploitation; you have to help us in obtaining that independence.”
“The military-fascist provocation of July 19 gave rise to an authentic and indisputably popular movement which definitively condemned, among other things, hierarchical military organization…”
“Anarchists have overcome their antagonism for authority and the State and turned militarist, if not with glee, at least with ardour.”
“Quantitative terms cannot be used in speaking of freedom.”
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Why They Oppose Civilization – Why? (1913)
“The press, as usual, in dealing with this incident, strives to belittle and cast ridicule upon Venezuela and the sympathetic nature of her sons in order to magnify and extol the merit that we ought to possess ourselves.”
