Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.
Source: The Crippled Tree, pt.1, ch. 9, 1965.
-- Han Suyin, (Sep 12 1917-2012), Chinese writer, physician; She writes fiction and nonfiction about Modern China; wrote Tigers and Butterflies : Selected Writings on Politics, Culture and Society, 1990.