Gerald Horne Quotes
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I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.
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Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.
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Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at that particular moment in time reflected its true strength and its true weight in the imperialist world.
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I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.
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As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if not war, as was evidenced by World War I itself, which, among other things, featured Germany on one side of the barricades and Britain, which had come earlier to the table of colonial plunder, on the other.
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I think that even though we should always welcome allies within the four corners of the United States, we shouldn't limit our allies to the four corners of the United States. I think that would be a grave mistake.
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It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.
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I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.