Mao Zedong
Politician, Revolutionary
"Imperialism is a paper tiger."
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Imperialism
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Hugo Chavez
Politician
"The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts."
Hugo Chavez
Politician
"When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force."
Assata Shakur
Activist
"Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms."
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"... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism."
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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)"
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"Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution."
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"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."
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"Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising."
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"Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated."
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"While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America."
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"Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse."
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"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."
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"Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually."
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"I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form."
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"There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists."
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"Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism."
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"No nation is wise enough to rule another."
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