Abu Taha

“The emergence of markets abroad put Americans to work, but it distorted the economies of poor countries in ways that greatly increased their poverty. As American companies accumulated vast sugar and fruit plantations in the Pacific, Central America, and the Caribbean, they forced countless small farmers off their land. Many became contract laborers who worked only when Americans needed them, and naturally came to resent the United States. At the same time, American companies flooded these countries with manufactured goods, preventing the development of local industry.”
― Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

“Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.”
― Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

“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