On Decoloniality Quotes

“Obviously, Western Christian Europeans had the right to build their own image of the world, like anybody else who had done so before them. But it was an aberration to pretend and act accordingly as if their specific image of the world and their own sense of totality was the same for any- and everybody else on the planet.”
― Walter D. Mignolo, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

“Decoloniality promotes pluriversality as a universal option—which means that what “should be” universal is in fact pluriversal, and not a single totality.”
― Walter D. Mignolo, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

“Praxis is not a privilege of the Left. It is what the Right does too.”
― Walter D. Mignolo, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

“The Aztecs, it is often alluded and condemned, sacrificed human bodies to keep the Sun ongoing. Western modernity sacrifices (and it is accepted) whatever is needed to keep Civilization ongoing.”
― Walter D. Mignolo, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis