“The world is real; the suffering of others is real; one's actions can sometimes irrevocably determine the destiny of others; the mistakes one makes are often transmuted directly into others' pain; there is sometimes no way to undo that pain-the dead remain dead, the maimed are forever maimed, and th…”— David Shields, amazon.com
“I think that the white man has a great deal of nerve to refer to any black people as merchants of hate in the face of the hell that black people have caught in this country at the hands of the white man, even at a time when the whites are admitting that they have brutalized black people for four hun…”— Malcolm X, amazon.com
“Look at the American Revolution in 1776. That revolution was for what? For land. Why did they want land? Independence. How was it carried out? Bloodshed. Number one, it was based on land, the basis of independence. And the only way they could get it was bloodshed.”— Malcom X, csun.edu
“Our victims know us by their scars and by their chains, and it is this that makes their evidence irrefutable.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“Historical amnesia and incuriousness about the violence of the past is the luxury of the oppressor. The colonized subject lives the historical violence of their expropriation viscerally, corporeally, all the way to psychosis, mental disorder, and phenomena.”— Simon Critchley, amazon.com