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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)