„American wheat, sold in Europe at lower prices than the domestic product, brought on a crisis in European peasant agriculture, sending a migrant stream of ruined peasants to seek new sources of livelihood in the burgeoning Americas. Ironically many of them made the journey westward on the same ships that carried to Europe the wheat that proved their undoing.“

„Traders (like the Phoenicians) carried their methods as well as their wares to Europe by ship.“

—  Cyrus H. Gordon American linguist 1908 - 2001

Introduction
Adventures in the Nearest East (1957)

„In Europe Negro soldiers are used principally as service troops ·behind the ·lines, and I state now, on the authority of many American officers, that they ·were lazy; that they would not work; that it was a mistake to send them to Europe, and furthermore, that. they should be returned from Europe ar:d sent to the Pacific, where there are races of color.“

—  James Eastland American politician 1904 - 1986

1940s

„Globalization has brought a new challenge to Europe: migration.“

—  Klaus F. Zimmermann German economist 1952

"Introduction: What We Know About European Migration" in European Migration: What Do We Know? (2005) edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann

„The landlord owes his riches to the poverty of the peasants, and the wealth of the capitalist comes from the same source.“

—  Peter Kropotkin, книга The Conquest of Bread

Источник: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 4 : Expropriation

„A decrease in the world supply of wheat has resulted in a very large increase in the price of that commodity. The position of all agricultural products indicates a better balanced supply, but we can not yet conclude that agriculture is recovered from the effects of the war period or that it is permanently on a prosperous basis. The cattle industry has not yet recovered and in some sections has been suffering from dry weather. Every effort must be made both by Government activity and by private agencies to restore and maintain agriculture to a complete normal relationship with other industries.“

—  Calvin Coolidge American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929) 1872 - 1933

1920s, Second State of the Union Address (1924)

„One of the common means by which one nation exploits another and one that is relevant to Africa’s external relations is exploitation through trade. When the terms of trade are set by one country in a manner entirely advantageous to itself, then the trade is usually detrimental to the trading partner. To be specific, one can take the export of agricultural produce from Africa and the import of manufactured goods into Africa from Europe, North America, and Japan. The big nations establish the price of the agricultural products and subject these prices to frequent reductions. At the same time the price of manufactured goods is also set by them, along with the freight rates necessary for trade in the ships of those nations. The minerals of Africa also fall into the same category as agricultural produce as far as pricing is concerned. The whole import-export relationship between Africa and its trading partners is one of unequal exchange and of exploitation.“

—  Walter Rodney, книга How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Источник: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 38.

„The migrant and refugee crisis is deepening and reaching a critical level. It used to take refugees and migrants six to eight months to reach their destination countries. Now they can do it in just a few days. Today united Europe has more walls than divided Europe had during the Cold War. Greece is facing a possible humanitarian crisis, and there are armies in a state of alert deployed on the borders of Balkan countries“

—  Gjorge Ivanov President of Macedonia 1960

„Today, the Italians have (hard) wheat foods like spaghetti and macaroni as their staple, while most Europeans use the potato. The Italians took the idea of the spaghetti-type foods from the Chinese noodle after Marco Polo returned from travels there, while Europe adopted the potato from American Indians. In neither case were Europeans enslaved before they could receive a benefit that was the logical heritage of all mankind, but Africans are to be told that the European slave trade developed us by bringing us maize and cassava.“

—  Walter Rodney, книга How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Источник: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 156.

„The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology was Protestant and bourgeois, and whose politics were petty-capitalist rather than traditionalist, had no reason to share the social outlook of the rural classes of Europe. In Europe land was limited and dear, while labor was abundant and relatively cheap; in America the ratio between land and labor was inverted.“

—  Richard Hofstadter American historian 1916 - 1970

Источник: The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. (1955), Chapter I, part II, p. 44

„Among the world's crops wheat is pre-eminent both in regard to its antiquity and its importance as a food of mankind. In prehistoric times it was cultivated throughout Europe, and was one of the most valuable cereals of ancient Persia, Greece, and Egypt.“

—  John Percival British agricultural botanist 1863 - 1949

[The Wheat Plant: A Monograph, 1921, London, Duckworth & Co, 3, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t56d5r310&view=1up&seq=21]

„Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.“

—  Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936

Civilization is Civilism

„Humanity has not yet evolved and we do not as yet know a type of government superior to and better than the Soviets of Workers’, Agricultural Labourers’, Peasants’, and Soldiers’ Deputies.“

—  Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924

Collected Works, Vol. 24, pp. 38–41.
Collected Works

„From "old" Europe's point of view, America seems bent on squandering the admiration — and gratitude — felt by most Europeans.“

—  Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004

Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Контексте: From "old" Europe's point of view, America seems bent on squandering the admiration — and gratitude — felt by most Europeans. The immense sympathy for the United States in the aftermath of the attack on September 11, 2001 was genuine. (I can testify to its resounding ardor and sincerity in Germany; I was in Berlin at the time.) But what has followed is an increasing estrangement on both sides. The citizens of the richest and most powerful nation in history have to know that America is loved, and envied... and resented.

„The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.“

—  David Ricardo British political economist, broker and politician 1772 - 1823

Источник: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter I, Section IV, On Value, p. 19

„Conditions became intolerable by the time of Shahjahan when, according to Manucci, peasants were compelled to sell their women and children to meet the revenue demand. Manrique writes that the peasants were “carried off… to various markets and fairs, (to be sold) with their poor unhappy wives behind them carrying their small children all crying and lamenting…” Bernier too affirms that the unfortunate peasants who were incapable of discharging the demands of their rapacious lords, were bereft of their children, who were carried away as slaves. Here was also confirmation, if not actually the beginning, of the practice of bonded labour in India.“

—  Shah Jahan 5th Mughal Emperor 1592 - 1666

Manucci, II, p. 451.,Manrique II, p. 272., Bernier, p.205., quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 7

„The main problem in Britain is that there are too many competitions and too many games. There is no time to prepare properly for Europe or to introduce new ideas because there is far too much emphasis on domestic football.“

—  Johan Cruyff Dutch association football player 1947 - 2016

International Football Hall of Fame http://www.ifhof.com/hof/cruyff.asp.

„Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions“

—  Frantz Fanon Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary 1925 - 1961

„We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.“

—  George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946

Speech on new space exploration initiatives http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040114-3.html (January 14, 2004)
2000s, 2004

„instead of migrants, European families must be given the money to enable them to commit to having as many children as possible.“

—  Viktor Orbán Hungarian politician, chairman of Fidesz 1963