A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
If you expect the present day school system to give history to you, you are dreaming. This, we have to do ourselves.… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The population of African people in the United States is far in excess of six small European nations. Where we are going?… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share
