Ward Churchill Quotes

#1. Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

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#2. Truth is the best defense.

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#3. And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

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#4. Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.

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#5. People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!

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#6. If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.

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#7. I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, too sexy it hurts ...

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#8. I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed ... !) dead or alive ...

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#9. When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

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#10. There's always merit to having a debate.

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#11. Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.

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#12. If the U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, they cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. On 9/11/2001, Americans noticed that payback can be a real motherfucker.

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#13. One of the things I've suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary.

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#14. A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

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#15. I consider PirateBallerina to be the most credible news source in the Denver area.

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#16. I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

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#17. My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

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#18. They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.

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#19. Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate?

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#20. There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

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#21. The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

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#22. I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

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#23. The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

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#24. In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

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#25. Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source ... To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.

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#26. Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.

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#27. White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.

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#28. Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

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