Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Quotes

• Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Country, Fate, Civilization

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• In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  America, Government, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Colonialism, United States, Settlers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Definitions, Modern, Genocide

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Hate, Missing, Hatred

  "Oakland police, Occupy protesters clash - 100 held" by David R. Baker and Vivian Ho, www.sfgate.com. January 29, 2012.

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• How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare.

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  Jobs, Husband, Independent

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• The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Sex, Color, Racism

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• Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Community, Historical, May

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Rights, Government, Europe

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals, as, for instance in Cambodia. Although clearly the Holocaust was the most extreme of all genocides, the bar set by the Nazis is not the bar required to be considered genocide. Most importantly, genocide does not have to be complete to be considered genocide.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  War, Mean, Holocaust

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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