Abu Taha

“Caste is another name for control. Caste puts a limit on enjoyment. Caste does not allow a person to transgress caste limits in pursuit of his enjoyment. That is the meaning of such caste restrictions as inter-dining and inter-marriage … These being my views I am opposed to all those who are out to destroy the Caste System.57”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition

“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“The main concern in Chile is that [Allende] can consolidate himself, and the picture projected to the world will be his success. . . . If we let the potential leaders in South America think they can move like Chile and have it both ways, we will be in trouble.”
― Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

“On December 4, 1972, President Salvador Allende of Chile told the United Nations General Assembly that his country would “no longer tolerate the subordination implied by having more than eighty percent of its exports in the hands of a small group of large foreign companies.”
― Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq