Ward Churchill

Ward LeRoy Churchill is an American writer, activist, and academic. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder prior to being fired for research misconduct. He is also author of over twenty books and hundreds of essays.

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• White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.
  • Fantasies of the Master Race, 1992

• Well, really. Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire – the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly.
  • Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, September 12, 2001

• 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.
  • Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, September 12, 2001

• And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
  • Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center, August 10, 2003

• You carry the weapon. That's how they don't see it coming. You're the one. They talk about 'color blind or blind to your color.' You said it yourself. You don't send the Black Liberation Army into Wall Street to conduct an action. You don't send the American Indian Movement into downtown Seattle to conduct an action. Who do you send? You. With your beard shaved, your hair cut close and wearing a banker's suit. There's probably a whole lot more to it, you know that, but there is where you start. Who carries the front-end? Why is it always people of color carrying the weight on this, when people who are much more proximate in terms of acceptability to the centers of power, professing solidarity and principled nonviolence on the one hand, and critiquing the practice of those who are carrying the weight on the other. Why is that?
  • Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center, August 10, 2003

• Your first thought was, "Oh shit, that plays right into what they want to do to us." Well, then, welcome to the club. Welcome to the club along with 565,000 Iraqi children who were systematically starved, and denied medical attention, to death, in less than 10 years, while Madeleine Albright goes on television, on 60 Minutes no less, receives the number, says, "Yes, I've heard it, we've decided it's worth the cost." Welcome to the club with the rest of the world, a little bit. I don't care if it plays into the hands of what they had in mind for you, unless you're doing something tangible to make it stop, what's already being done to those people on the receiving end. Why should you be exempt and immune? So, instead of "Oh shit", "Right on".
  • Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center, August 10, 2003

• Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.
  • Talk at Portland, Oregon, June 23, 2005

• People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. [Sarcastically] Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!
  • Speech on "Pacifism as Pathology", available via CD from AK Press.