“What does the black man want? He wants to be liberated from the chains of economic, social, and political slavery in which he finds himself, so that he can realise his full potential and thereby his full consciousness.”
Author: historyiswhat
“While the whole world writhes in a spasm of madness, let us in America be mad with a method, mad with a purpose. Let us say No to the atomic bomb rather than say No to life itself.”
“…I must express my emphatic dissent from the theory that the labor question can be brought to its solution by a mere diminution in the number of laborers.”
“Black people living in Canada are afflicted by all the problems that confront the French Canadian, the Indian, and the Eskimo in the so-called ‘Just Society.'”
“Patriotism, an adoration of government, whatever it may be, is being fostered; the feeling of hatred toward our brothers in another country is created and encouraged.”
“The ‘Conscience’ volunteers have been attacked and likely abducted by Israeli forces while in international waters on their way to open a sea corridor to Gaza.”
“For a number of years the Spanish imperialists waged a ruthless campaign against the Moroccan tribes.”
“For a Russian to see an inexorably increasing population inevitably straining potential supplies of food and space required quite a leap of imagination.”
“…obviously from the start it was clear that the only way what was then Palestine could become a Jewish State would be by genocide…”
“I am strongly convinced that the libertarian ideal which opposes all rulers and states, makes no exceptions, grants no privileges to a Jewish or Israeli state.”
“It is we that have driven out hundreds of thousands of people from their native country and filled their hearts with hatred and despair.”
“… roadblocks were erected on the main roads accessing their land, through which no police, oil companies or others were allowed without a Band-issued permit.”
“They are kids … in jail because they raised their own flag or sang their national anthem, or spray-painted walls with messages.”
“A number of people felt that the next logical step would be to involve Indians as filmmakers.”
“…instead little children are torn from their mothers arms or homes by the police or Government Agents and taken sometimes hundreds of miles to large Schools perhaps to take sick and die when their family cannot see them.”
“Production is, for us, the mere servant of consumption; it must mold itself on the wants of the consumer, not dictate to him conditions.”
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Remembering comrade Yarrow
Recently, a friend and comrade, who at one point, long ago, used the name ‘Yarrow’ among others, died after a lengthy struggle with cancer in our mutual hometown of Metro Vancouver, within Coast Salish territories.
“Let the starving multitudes answer.”
“Their real struggle isn’t to protect us from weapons of mass destruction held by foreign evildoers, rather it’s to subject us to even greater domination and exploitation at their own hands.”
“They wanted to give the natives a voice in running their affairs, without giving power to the masses.”
“British industry is the work of the British nation — nay, of Europe and India taken together — not of separate individuals.”
“The recent bloody repressions in Jamaica… the continual cleaning-up operations in India… the savage repression of the Arabs in Palestine… all these are symbolic of British Imperialism.”
