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What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.


Rosa Luxemburg


#africans #antisemitism #compassion #empathy #europeans

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.


David Korten


#fabric #proud #rights #say #social

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.


Suzanne Fields


#away #concede #conflict #enough #europeans

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.


Ahmed Yassin


#enemy #europeans #fight #homeland #homes

Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in that, if terror reigned everywhere in the world, but the colonizer enjoys, in the mother country, democratic rights that the colonialist system refuses to the colonized native. In fact, the colonialist system favors population growth to reduce the cost of labor, and it forbids assimilation of the natives, whose numerical superiority, if they had voting rights, would shatter the system. Colonialism denies human rights to human beings whom it has subdued by violence, and keeps them by force in a state of misery and ignorance that Marx would rightly call a subhuman condition. Racism is ingrained in actions, institutions, and in the nature of the colonialist methods of production and exchange. Political and social regulations reinforce one another. Since the native is subhuman, the Declaration of Human Rights does not apply to him; inversely, since he has no rights, he is abandoned without protection to inhuman forces - brought in with the colonialist praxis, engendered every moment by the colonialist apparatus, and sustained by relations of production that define two sorts of individuals - one for whom privilege and humanity are one, who becomes a human being through exercising his rights; and the other, for whom a denial of rights sanctions misery, chronic hunger, ignorance, or, in general, 'subhumanity.


Albert Memmi


#colonialism #colonies #democracy #europeans #human-rights

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.


Jennifer O'Neill


#europeans #few #how #know #light

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.


Timothy Garton Ash


#canadians #common #crude #distinguishing #europeans

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.


Dominique de Villepin


#achievement #become #europe #europeans #forget

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.


Kathleen Turner


#body #enough #europeans #experience #i

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.


Jared Diamond


#diseases #epidemic #europeans #evolved #give