Quotes from Vijay Prashad

There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.

It's Israelis who are ready to abandon the hard work of peace.

The annual budget is a much better reflection of a country's morality than its constitution. You put more money into repression, police, military... and so little to taking care of human troubles

For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza.

The dominant classes in the South might divert the funds towards the creation of an America instead, with vastly well-off sector living in protected zones, separated from rest of the population by well crafted cordons sanitaires.

It was class against class in the immediate years after the Second World War, with the CIA helping the ruling elites to maintain their property and privilege against democracy.

There is that old joke. Why is there never a coup in the United States? Because there is no US embassy there.

The war against the English was premised against a desire by the European settlers to break out of the Thirteen Colonies and conquer the entire continent; this was a war for colonization, not a war against colonialism.

W]ho would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? What an audacious thought: that those who had been fated to labor without want, now wanted to labor in their own image!

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.