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Hitler was famously inspired by the U.S. state. In 1928, he admiringly said the United States had “gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keep the modest remnant under observation in a cage." In Mein Kampf, he praised the United States as the “one state” that had worked toward a “better conception” of race-based citizenship. American whiteness was exporting new and vicious forms of segregation, imprisonment, and genocidal violence. Hitler is presented as a historical exception, an aberration, when in reality he is part of a lineage that includes men like King Leopold, Andrew Jackson, and George W. Bush.

— The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson (88%)

I think of being Black not so much as an ethnic category but as an oppositional force or touchstone for looking at situations differently. Black culture has always been oppositional and is all about finding ways to creatively resist oppression here, in the most racist country in the world. So, when I speak of a Black anarchism, it is not so tied to the color of my skin but who I am as a person, as someone who can resist, who can see differently when I am stuck, and thus live differently.

— The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson (61%)

"...America has always lived up to the true meaning of its creed. Its creed is genocide and slavery.” All of these distortions of history reinforce the idea that this country is somewhere migrants, immigrants, and refugees can find freedom, despite the fact that Black migrants have been attempting to do this by moving around within its boundaries for centuries.

— The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson (57%)

The truth is that sets of DNA markers cannot tell us who we really are because genetic data is technical and identity is social.

— The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson (Page 77)

The narrative that we are all descended “from kings and queens” is disturbing. Emphasizing African royalty as something to take pride in reproduces the notion that wealth and power is what determines a person’s value. Even if the kingdoms whose rulers we all supposedly descend from predate capitalism, they still contained relations in which hierarchy and domination gave people their value. It was putting a monetary value on people’s heads that drove slavers to put people into chains in the first place. Feeding into this sort of irrationality will not free us of them.

— The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson (Page 69)

Since the very beginning of the United States, the right to land and natural resources and the right to commit acts of violence against people—Indigenous, Black, or otherwise— have been closely linked to citizenship. To be a citizen has meant to be white and, like whiteness, citizenship itself is an invention that is of no good use to us here. It has done much more harm than good. Anything that affords some people more rights than others based on borders, race, or class should be abolished.

— The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson (Page 45)

The fact is money and not votes is what rules the people. And the capitalists no longer care to buy the voters, they simply buy the “servants” after they have been elected to “serve.”

— The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson (Page 36)

“Black experience in any modern city or town in the Americas is a haunting. One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.”

— The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson (Page 27)