Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, >>
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. >>
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. >>
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; >>
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has >>
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.