I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.

Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.

In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.

I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.

I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.

Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.

Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at that particular moment in time reflected its true strength and its true weight in the imperialist world.