7+ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz quotes and sayings.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals, as, for instance in Cambodia. Although clearly the Holocaust was the most extreme of all genocides, the bar set by the Nazis is not the bar required to be considered genocide. Most importantly, genocide does not have to be complete to be considered genocide. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz