"[W]hile Negro labor in America suffers because of the fundamental equities of the whole capitalistic system the lowest and most fatal degree of suffering comes not from the capitalists but from fellow white laborers." — W.E.B. Du Bois, "Marxism and the Negro Problem"

"It is no sufficient answer to say that capital encourages [racial] oppression and uses it for its own ends[...] the bulk of American white labor is neither ignorant nor fanatical. It knows exactly what it is doing and it meant do it."— DuBois, "Marxism and the Negro Problem"

"The real owners of capital are small as well as large investors​—​workers who have deposits in savable banks and small holdings in stocks and bonds; families buying homes and purchasing commodities on installment[...]" — W.E.B. Du Bois, "Marxism and the Negro Problem"

"Thus the engineers and the saving better-paid workers, form a new petty bourgeois class, whose interests are bound up with those of the capitalists and antagonistic to those of common labor." — W.E.B. Du Bois, "Marxism and the Negro Problem"

"[...]a world-wide new proletariat of colored workers, toiling us the worst conditions of 19th century capitalism, herded as slaves and serfs and furnishing by the lowest paid wage in modern history a mass of material for industry."—W.E.B. Du Bois," Marxism and the Negro Problem"

"[C]olored labor has no common ground with white labor. No soviet of technocrats would do more than exploit colored labor in order to raise the status of whites." — W.E.B. Du Bois, "Marxism and the Negro Problem"

"The Negro is exploited to a degree that means poverty, crime, delinquency and indigence. And that exploitation comes not from a black capitalistic class but from the white capitalists and equally from the white proletariat." — W.E.B. Du Bois, "Marxism and the Negro Problem"

"In the hearts of black laborers alone, therefore, lie those ideals of democracy in politics and industry which may in time make the workers of the world effective dictators of civilization."— W.E.B. Du Bois, "Marxism and the Negro Problem"

— Kwame Nkrumah, "Class Struggle in Africa" https://twitter.com/aiukliAfrika/status/1032459985136041984?s=20

"The international division of labor of the colonial period also ensured [the] growth of employment opportunities in Europe, apart from the millions of white settlers and expatriates who earned a livelihood in and from Africa."— Walter Rodney, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"

"Higher standard [of living] was made possible by the exploitation of colonies, and there was no justification for keeping African living standards so depressed in an age where better was possible[...] because of the work output of Africans themselves." — Walter Rodney, Ibid.

"[W]hen black people got together among themselves to work out their problems, it becomes a threat to white people, because such meetings were potential slave revolts." — Kwame Ture, "The Basis of Black Power"

"Industrial workers cannot fulfill their world-historical mission of emancipating mankind from the yoke of capital and from wars if [they] smugly confine themselves to care and concern for improving their own, sometimes tolerable, petty bourgeois conditions." — V.I. Lenin

"I am aware of the fact that US racism grew out of capitalist exploitation, but today it has become a part of the American way of life. It is a part of the nature of a Yankee." — Robert F. Williams

"The colonialists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history."— Amilcar Cabral

"Our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others—the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison." — Eduardo Galeano, "Open Veins of Latin America"

"A revolution, as he sees it, can be made only if it does not worsen the workers’ conditions “too much”. Is it permissible, in a Communist Party, to speak in a tone like this, I ask? This is the language of counter-revolution."— V.I. Lenin

"[I]t was by helping their [the workers] “own” bourgeoisie to conquer and strangle the whole world by imperialist methods, with the aim of thereby ensuring better pay for themselves, that the labour aristocracy developed."— V.I. Lenin

"[T]he national liberation of a people is the regaining of the historical personality of that people, its return to history through the destruction of the imperialist domination to which it was subjected." — Amilcar Cabral, "The Weapon of Theory"

"We can therefore conclude that national liberation exists only when the national productive forces have been completely freed from every kind of foreign domination." — Amilcar Cabral, "The Weapon of Theory"

"We established a great historic truth: a colonized and weak people once it has risen up and is united in the struggle and determined to fight for its independence and peace, has the full power to defeat the strong aggressive army of an imperialist country." — Võ Nguyên Giáp

"When a colonial and imperialist power is forced to give independence to a people, this imperialist power says: ‘you want independence? Then take it and die of hunger." — Frantz Fanon

"[The imperialist circles] are trying to solve the problem of markets by enslaving the weak nations, by intensifying colonial oppression and repartitioning the world anew by means of war. That is why they need fascism."— Georgi Dimitrov

"[T]he division of nations into oppressor and oppressed...forms the *essence* of imperialism, and is *deceitfully* evaded by the social-chauvinists and Kautsky." — V. I.Lenin

"May [the French] shudder when they approach our coastline, either because they remember all the exactions they committed, or because of our horrifying pledge to kill every Frenchman who soils the land of freedom with his sacrilegious presence." — Jean-Jacques Dessalines

"[O]bjectively the opportunists are[...] a certain strata of the working class who have been bribed out of imperialist superprofits and converted to watchdogs of capitalism and corruptors of the labour movement." — V. I. Lenin
Imperialism and the Split in Socialism

"The only resources we have are destruction and fire. Annihilate everything and burn everything... Leave nothing white behind you." — Toussaint L' Oueverture

"Victims of our own credulity and indulgence for 14 years; defeated not by French armies, but by the pathetic eloquence of their agents’ proclamations... [the French] are not our brothers...they never will be." — Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Declaration of Independence)

"[I]t used to be said, there is a community of interests between the colonized people and the working class of the colonialist country. The history of the wars of liberation waged by the colonized peoples is the history of the non-verification of this thesis." — Frantz Fanon

"Even now, there are not a few people who still regard odd quotations from Marxist-Leninist works as a ready-made panacea which, once acquired, can easily cure all maladies." — Mao Zedong, "Rectify the Party's Style of Work"

"Merely talking about linking theory and practice without actually doing anything about it is of no use, even if one goes on talking for a hundred years." — Mao Zedong, "Rectify the Party's Style of Work"

"Yes, we have rendered to these true cannibals [white Frenchmen] war for war, crime for crime, outrage for outrage; yes, I have saved my country; I have avenged America." — Jean-Jacques Dessalines, "Liberty or Death"

"In our revolution we aim at creating the new society— without classes, capital dictatorship, feudal dictatorship, exploitation, and monopoly, but with social justice and equality." — Gamal Abdel Nasser

"[W]hen, finally, I turn on my radio and hear that in Africa forced labor has been inaugurated and legalized, I say that we have certainly been lied to: Hitler is not dead." — Aimé Césaire