“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.” WorldTwoMightWantedAmericaPoliticalWaterPowerFiveSeaProduceEuropeTwentiesDollarsJewSoilMetalsEstablishmentReservesAsiaPalestineStrategicAbsolutely NothingPolitical PowerCrossroadsZionistFatherlandPetroleumUgandaHoly LandSea WaterMadagascarEvaporation Author:Nahum Goldmann
“Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.” DoeArtCountryPhilosophyUseHomeJobsAmericaCommunityNaturalPoorResourcesLaborBasesUniversityEnterpriseEnlightenedLatinAsiaGood JobExploitsLatin AmericaNatural ResourcesPoor CountriesCheap LaborHome Base Author:Jeffrey Sachs
“Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.” PeopleTwoSelfAmericaSpiritualBlackConsciousIslamCirclesGuidanceNationalismLinksAsiaArabiaSpiritual GuidanceBlack Nationalism Author:Malcolm X
“One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.” ThinkingWorldYearsProblemAmericaSpeakTermMiddleCenturyEastMiddle EastAsiaShort Term Author:Jay Rockefeller
“Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism.” WorldHas BeensAmericaOrderWhiteGunChinaFighterQuantityAsiaImperialismTanksRubberTinBombersFree WorldFreedom FighterAdvisableSoutheast AsiaGis Author:Paul Robeson
“I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue.... It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.” WorldWellsHeartDoeProblemAmericaPresidentLosesWatchesIssuesEnvironmentMiddleSecurityHappeningsStandingIraqIsraelComplicatedCriticalEastResolveMiddle EastPalestinianAsiaExtremistTacklingSteadfastnessPresident George W BushSoutheast Asia Author:Lee Hsien Loong
“Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.” MenArtTwoAmericaHateUnited StatesCrueltyRemedyAsiaDrowningDiscarded Author:Anais Nin
“The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.” LongAmericaOrderFoundDoorsConditionsFrontsSeekingAtmosphereAsiaDiscontentKnockingColumbusFront DoorsBack Doors Book:Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes
“The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.” ShouldWarCountrySeemsAmericaUsedMethodExcusePossessionCriminalsRussiaAfghanistanAsiaImperialismAdoptedTug Of War Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
“I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.” KnowsLongAmericaCommunityConversationSouthEastAsiaSiblingSouth AsiaEast AsiaLong Conversations Author:Ronan Farrow
“The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.” SelfAmericaFormChallengesSelf RespectAsiaAsianShieldsConsonantsAmerican Power Author:Ferdinand Marcos
“The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same. The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression. Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.” PeopleWorldMindDoeMatterHandsAmericaStruggleMastersRevolutionBattleFortuneStriveWideLatinExploitationOppressedAsiaLinkedImperialismLatin AmericaOppressorsSuppressionGhana Author:Kwame Nkrumah
“America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.” AmericaValuesCultureSilenceQualityStyleCommunicationDirectEastCharacteristicsGermanyPrivacyIndividualismDominantIntrovertRestraintAsiaFast PacedNoisyFinlandEast Asia Author:Laurie Helgoe