Ward Churchill

“You can't have a circumstance in which you have a native population and a non-native population in the same territory and not have a colonial dynamic.”

“A 'settler' is not merely a land-thief. The term has a much more profound meaning than that, a meaning which is readily understood by indigenous peoples everywhere.”

“The genocide, you know, is a process, not a single event. It's been a process that's been ongoing for 500 years.”

“There is no nation on the planet that has not experienced excesses.”

“It is not merely that the United States is a colonial power, but that it is the pristine model of the modern colonialist state.”

“If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.”

“One of the things I've always admired about Native American philosophy is that it's a philosophy of accommodation. It's a philosophy of trying to find a place for everything.”

“They were not civilians in any meaningful sense of the term. They were technocrats of empire.”

“My work is about trying to understand the nature of the beast, the system in which we live, and to find a way to dismantle it.”

“The function of the university is not to make students comfortable, it is to make them think.”

“America was never 'discovered.' It was conquered.”

“If you're going to be a nazi, you have a right to be a nazi. You have a right to your ideology.”