"If this is how you treat someone that's much loved I'd hate to see how you treat someone you don't like."

Conservative MP Nigel Evans at a House of Commons select committee in April 2007 criticising the “appalling” decision by the BBC to sack esteemed newsreader, Moira Stuart and responding to the BBC Director-General, Mark Thompson’s dubious assertion that Moira is “a very valued and much-loved BBC colleague”.

"We won't stop this by pretending it isn't young black kids doing it. The black community - the vast majority of whom in these communities are decent, law-abiding people horrified at what is happening - need to be mobilised in denunciation of this gang culture that is killing innocent young black kids."

Tony Blair, the then Prime Minister of Britain during the Callaghan Memorial Lecture on regeneration in Cardiff, Wednesday 11th April 2007. His comments caused great consternation amongst many who criticised what they saw as Blair's ignorance of the views of many in the African community in Britain and the stigmatization of the community as inactive.

“Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world, it was the first place in which it was possible to assemble artefacts from around the world and allow people to study them. Never before had it been possible to compare the different continents, to consider the world as one.”

A quote from an article in the Guardian newspaper in April by the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor who presents a sanitized version of the circumstances by which many of the world’s misappropriated cultural property in the British museum was acquired. The British Museum still hoards the Benin Bronzes which were stolen during the British punitive expedition of 1897 which followed a number of failed attacks against Benin City. The expedition was initially met with huge and successful resistance. However, the City was eventually captured after the British indiscriminately shelled the village, killing the local community with their Maxims and guns. The treasures were then removed by British troops and ultimately dispersed to various international institutions, including the British museum. Following the horrendous and devastating attack, Ralph Moor, the governor of Britain's Niger Coast protectorate, declared: "Now this is white man's country. There is only one king in the country, and that is the white man."

“It's not a life, it's an existence. I can't feel anything, so I can't touch the world and can only watch as it passes by. They assessed my case and agreed that, based on my condition my wish to die is justified.”

47-year-old Noel Martin expresses his intention to end his life following a racist attack by neo-nazis in Mahlow, Berlin 1996 during which they yelled “n*****r piss off” and subsequently threw a 44lb concrete block through the side window of his car causing him to crash into a tree. After waking from a coma after several weeks, he discovered that he was paralysed from the neck down and is now confined to life in a wheelchair. Both his attackers have been released following their eight and five year terms for what the judge described as ‘silly racism’. Martin details his story in his autobiography, Call It My Life published in April 2007.

"People have been marginalised, widely neglected for years. We have the oil, the God-given resources, but we have no electricity, no water, no hospitals. Everything has gone to extinction. The government has abandoned us as a people, and meanwhile they are sucking from us.
Where these oil companies operate there is electricity, there is water. But just outside, in the host communities, there is nothing. See the structures people live in. People are living hand to mouth. They have a short lifespan. People die at a tender age. They piss in the water, shit in the water and then drink the water. Most of these companies don't fulfil their social responsibilities. What they do in other countries they don't do here, and what they do here they don't do in other countries."

Biochemist and member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta quoted in an article in the Guardian news paper Thursday May 10, 2007. MEND are a resistance movement fighting against the inhumane exploitation pf the people of the Niger Delta whose natural environment has been violated, polluted and destroyed by multinational oil companies in collusion with the Nigerian government. The devastation has inhibited the ability of the indigenous population to live a self sufficient existence with their ability to farm and fish grossly and unjustly impaired. Mend have declared that “our aim is to totally destroy the capacity of the Nigerian government to export oil”. They have repeatedly and successfully sabotaged the production of oil by bombing pipelines, allegedly attacking floating storage, production and offloading vessels and by instigating a number of kidnappings in the Niger Delta area.

"I'm sad it is taken so much time to settle something so straightforward, a matter of simple human rights."

50-year-old Roch Evenor, former inhabitant of the Chagos Islands, comments on the verdict of the Court of Appeal on 23 May 2007, who found the British government guilty of an “abuse of power” for their immoral and inhumane attempts to prevent the Chagossian Islanders from reclaiming the land that the British audaciously leased from under their feet to the US over 40 years ago. Following the ‘leasing’ of the island of Diego Garcia, the Chagossian inhabitants were forcibly depopulated from their land to Seychelles and Mauritius allowing for the US to establish yet another military base. Despite claims that no money was exchanged in the underhand deal done between the UK and US, Britain subsequently received a $14 million discount on the acquisition of Polaris missiles.