"How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?..." Read more "..The term is used to describe the policy of a nation's dominance over distant lands, regardless of whether the subjugated nation considers itself part of the empire. It is also considered the action by which one country controls another country or territory accomplished by military means to gain certain advantages." Read more "African people educated within the parameters of western civilization have measured our human worth based on the standards of European people, thus always putting African people in a position of human inferiority from a cultural and social perspective." Read more "There is neither a struggle, nor fight more pressing for we African Americans than this one, for this is how we are being systematically exploited, suppressed, confused and turned against each other." Read more