#european

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

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time. ↗

— Sergio Leone

#any #european #eyes #fascinates #i

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#demonstrate #embrace #equip #european #globalization

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#deal #european #financial #hand #i

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#behind #european #mask #matter #modern

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#european #european union #fact #fair #free

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#difficulty #enemy #european #i #imagine

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas. ↗

— John Redwood

#being #bureaucracy #concern #core #democracy

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#amazing #amazing things #capabilities #european #european union

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #european #european union #help #into