A Quote by Susan Sontag

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag
American - Author
January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to "civilize" Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.

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Annalee Newitz

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Margaret Mead

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Judith Butler

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J. I. Packer

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

Jack Schwartz

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Christian Picciolini

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Louis Walsh

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Matthew Mercer

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Jeff Fortenberry

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Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

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