Ward Churchill Quotes

• The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

  Ward Churchill

  People, Propaganda

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• Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

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  Country, War, Years

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• It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all

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  Mean, Responsibility, Bystanders

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• The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

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  Lying, Order, Roots

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• I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.

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  Rights, Talking, Libertarian

  Z Magazine, vol. 8, p. 32,

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• If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

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  Politics, Innocence, Destruction

  "Ward Churchill’s Case To Win Back His Job At CU-Boulder To Be Heard By Colorado Supreme Court Today" by Matt Ferner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2012.

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• As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

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  Patriotism, Towers, World

  "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens" by Ward Churchill, www.kersplebedeb.com. September 12, 2001.

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• I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

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  People, United States, Natural

  Ward Churchill's Statment, www.denverpost.com. June 8, 2005.

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• White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.

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  Children, Cowboy, Play

  Ward Churchill, M. Annette Jaimes (1992). “Fantasies of the master race: literature, cinema and the colonization of American Indians”, Common Courage Pr

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• Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.

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  Children, School, Talking

  "The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools". Book by Ward Churchill, November 2004.

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• A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

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  Bridges, People, Sound

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• Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.

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  Virtue, Innocent

  "Rewriting War on Terror History, and March Towards Socialism". www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2009.

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• When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

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  Country, Children, Order

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• Truth is the best defense.

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  Defense, Truth Is

  Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.23, City Lights Books

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• One of the things I've suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary.

  Ward Churchill

  May

  "Dismantling the Politics of Comfort". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. April 2004.

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• Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.

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  Add, Facts, Journalism

  Ward Churchill (1995). “Since predator came: notes from the struggle for American Indian liberation”, Artemis Communications Ltd

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• And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

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  Should Have, Long, People

  Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center, August 10, 2003.

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• Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source. To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.

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  Colonialism, Way, Genocide

  "Kill the Indian, Save the Man". Book by Ward Churchill, 2004.

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• People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!

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  People, Ems, Blame

  "Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left". Ward Churchill's Speech in Oakland, California, November 16, 2001.

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• In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

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  Israel, Years, Punishment

  Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.15, City Lights Books

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• Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

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  Responsibility, Choices, Toxic

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• Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.

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  Order, Support, Pieces

  "CU Prof Defends Military Remarks" by Jim Kirksey and Amy Herdy, www.denverpost.com. June 29, 2005.

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• I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.

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  Horse, Cowboy, Steel

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• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

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  Consensus, Homogeneity

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• I consider PirateBallerina to be the most credible news source in the Denver area.

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  News, Denver, Source

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