Randall Robinson Quotes

• Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.

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  Madre, Fuerte, Padre

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• People need their history like they need air and food.

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  Air, People, Needs

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

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  Suffering, Insult, Response

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

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  Hombres, Personas, Justicia

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• Where does a black soul go to rest?

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  Soul, Black, Doe

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• Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response. For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

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  Country, Tired, People

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• Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds.

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  Country, Thug, People

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• We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

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  País, Creer, América

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• No es de extrañar que nuestro espíritu nacional esté vacío de cáscara. Tenemos más información pero menos conocimiento. Más comunicación pero menos comunidad. Más bienes pero menos buena voluntad. Más de prácticamente todo, excepto de lo que requiere el espíritu humano. Tan distraídos nos hemos vuelto en saciar esta nueva necesidad o aquel apetito material, que apenas notamos la partida de la felicidad

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  Communication, Community, Needs

  Randall Robinson (2001). “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks”, p.171, Penguin

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• Nunca conocí a un blanco hasta que fui adulto. Nunca fui a la escuela con un blanco hasta los veintiséis años, en la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard. El insulto de la segregación fue abrasador e inolvidable. Me dejó una gran cicatriz que me acompañará el resto de mi vida.

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  School, Men, Years

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

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  Self, Racist, Blind

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

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  Offending, People, Trouble

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

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  Thinking, People, Institutions

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

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  Passion, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.

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  Thinking, Oil, Community

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

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  Country, Thinking, Culture

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most powerful force in this world and who can still make it fly.

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  Country, Potente, Cortante

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.

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  Thinking, Class, Space

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Siempre he pensado que tenía muy buen instinto para las personas. Hay una corta lista de personas con las que he trabajado a lo largo de mi carrera con las que no he podido distinguir fácilmente entre la persona pública y la persona privada real.

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  Real, Careers, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but they like you to elect the people they want you to elect.

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  People, Democracy, Want

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery.

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  Eight, People, Community

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.

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  Country, America, Self

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

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  Democracy, Next, Outcomes

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

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  Thinking, Want, Christ

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

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  World, Bother

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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