The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with … - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals, as, for instance in Cambodia. Although clearly the Holocaust was the most extreme of all genocides, the bar set by the Nazis is not the bar required to be considered genocide. Most importantly, genocide does not have to be complete to be considered genocide.

War, Mean, Holocaust, Bar, Although

Same Author Quotes

Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.

Basis, Came, Civilization, Civilizations, Country, Fate

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

Definitions, Modern, Genocide, Authorities, Terminate, Definition

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

Colonialism, United States, Settlers, States, Settler

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.

America, Government, People, Present, National, Right

Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.

Hate, Hatred, Missing, Organized, Passionate