Darold Cuba

“Notice that within a white supremacist society, I am rewarded for not interrupting racism and punished in a range of ways—big and small—when I do. I can justify my silence by telling myself that at least I am not the one who made the joke and that therefore I am not at fault. But my silence is not benign because it protects and maintains the racial hierarchy and my place within it. Each uninterrupted joke furthers the circulation of racism through the culture, and the ability for the joke to circulate depends on my complicity.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“If by their fruits we shall know them, they must first grow the fruits.”
― Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”
― A.R. Moxon

“The ways in which scientific research is
implicated in the worst excesses of colonialism remains a powerful remembered
history for many of the world’s colonized peoples”
― Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples