Black Activists on Anti-Imperialism:

"As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism."- Angela Davis

Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments.” - MLK

“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

- MLK

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No, I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help...”

“...murder & burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have...”

“...said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people, or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.“ - Muhammad Ali

“The history of our day....may be epitomized in one word—Empire; the domination of white Europe over black Africa and yellow Asia, through political power built on the economic control of labor, income and ideas. The echo of this industrial imperialism in America was...”

“...the expulsion of black men from American democracy, their subjection to caste control and wage slavery. This ideology was triumphant in 1910.”

- W.E.B Du Bois

“The cause of war is preparation for war; and of all that Europe has done in a century there is nothing that has equaled in energy, thought, & time her preparation for wholesale murder. The only adequate cause of this preparation was conquest and conquest, not in Europe, but...”

“...primarily among the darker peoples of Asia and Africa.” - W.E.B Du Bois

“In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy of power and desire, of seduction by the Other. This longing is rooted in the atavistic belief that the spirit of...”

“...the ‘primitive’ resides in the bodies of dark Others whose cultures, traditions, and lifestyles may indeed be irrevocably changed by imperialism, colonization, and racist domination. The desire to make contact with those bodies deemed Other, with...”

“...no apparent will to dominate, assuages the guilt of the past, even takes the form of a defiant gesture where one denies accountability and historical connection.” - bell hooks

“And I might point out right here that colonialism or imperialism, as the slave system of the West is called, is not something that’s just confined to England or France or the United States. But the interests in this country are in cahoots with the interests in France and...”

“...the interests in Britain. It’s one huge complex or combine, and it creates what’s known as not the American power structure or the French power structure, but it’s an international power structure. And this international power structure is used to suppress...”

“...the masses of dark-skinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural resources.” - Malcolm X

“I think that more than anything, the whole cultural imperialism that is going on today where people, whether they're in Senegal, South Africa, Indonesia, are looking at this USA vision of the world that is totally distorted, totally unreal, that really diminishes...”

“...and minimalizes the cultural values and wisdom of people all over the world, and sells this kind of McDonald-ized vision of the world that everybody is supposed to aspire to.”

- Assata Shakur

“Cuba is very important in that struggle, because Cuba is not only talking about racism in abstract terms, but connecting it with imperialism, which is the underlying motor of racism today. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its...”

“...various forms today. I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.” - Assata Shakur

“In the spirit of international revolutionary solidarity the Black Panther Party hereby offers to the National Liberation Front and Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam an undetermined number of troops to assist you in your fight...”

“...against American imperialism. It is appropriate for the Black Panther Party to take this action at this time in recognition of the fact that your struggle is also our struggle, for we recognize that our common enemy is the American imperialist who is the leader of...”

“...international bourgeois domination. There is not one fascist or reactionary government in the world today that could stand without the support of United States imperialism. Therefore our problem is international, & we offer these troops in recognition of the necessity for...”

“...inter-national alliances to deal with this problem.” - Huey P. Newton

“There is a document I was told about, I have not actually seen it, but a document in the possession of the State Department that was released somehow. It stated that what the government needed most to prevent, what they were most concerned about, was the formation of close...”

“...alliances to work together between African American or black revolutionaries, the Arab revolutionaries and people fighting in Asia and Latin America, which is exactly what we were doing. We were working with people in Cuba, people in Mexico. We went to conferences...”

...with Vietnamese. When Eldridge left the country and went to North Africa, Algeria, we organized something called the International Section of the BPP, which put us right in the same town with representatives of the MPLA from Angola, ZAPU and ZANU from Zimbabwe, ANC from...”

“South Africa, with people who were fighting in Ethiopia, in Canada, the FLQ, in Brazil. So we made that link - completely. We were very clear about the way that the struggle that we were a part of was similar to struggles going on by people of color who were all...”

“...fighting against the same imperialist. It was anti-imperialist from the beginning, and recognized that we were up against the same enemy.”

- Kathleen Cleaver

“Well, the, the Black Panther party was never a nationalist organization. Um, in the sense that we, our purpose was not to build a Black nation. We felt that the oppression of Black people was our primary, more subjective interest. And that interest could best be served by...”

“...the freedom and the destruction of oppression for all people. So therefore that would include other people of color, women, and anybody else who was disenfranchised and was oppressed by the system that we felt was the real perpetrator of all of this, ah, harm and ill...”

“...which was a system of capitalism in the United States and ultimately of imperialism. So when we recognized early on that the war in Vietnam, ah, had nothing to do with Black people and our oppression, that we were doing no more than being cannon fodder--our first position...”

“...was not to take a position against the war, but to suggest that Black men not go into the war. And so we promoted, if you look at some of our early papers, you'll see us promoting Black men saying, "Don't go to the war." We would never allow our own Panthers...”

....to be drafted. We would send them down to the draft boards in Panther uniforms with Panther papers, and say, yeah, I'm ready to go and of course the draft board would be glad to have them leave as opposed to go to Vietnam. So...”

“...generally speaking, we tried to discourage Black people from being a part of the war because we were cannon fodder, and we did not have an enemy in the Vietnamese people.

- Elaine Brown

There’s waaaaaaaaaaaaay more quotes and texts out there. But I just want to make it plain that being anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascism, and etc is fundamental to the struggle for Black lives EVERYWHERE.

Not just in America.

Links to some of the quotes above:

http://pages.vassar.edu/mampilly/files/2013/11/Kathleen-Cleaver.pdf

https://web.viu.ca/davies/H324War/letter.HueyNewton.Vietnam.1970.htm

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~geostein/docs/Steinmetz%202008%20Du%20Bois%20theorist%20of%20colonialism.pdf

http://www.afrocubaweb.com/assata6.htm 

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1965-malcolm-x-speech-ford-auditorium/

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/beyond-vietnam

http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/bro5427.0311.022marc_record_interviewer_process.html