Walter Rodney

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

— Walter Rodney

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

— Walter Rodney

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

— Walter Rodney

Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it's overthrow.

— Walter Rodney

After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose…

— Walter Rodney

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and…

— Walter Rodney

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the…

— Walter Rodney

Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work…

— Walter Rodney

Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been…

— Walter Rodney

Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause…

— Walter Rodney

“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out…

— Walter Rodney

“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are…

— Walter Rodney

“The moment that the topic of the pre-European African past is raised, many individuals are concerned for various reasons to know about…

— Walter Rodney

“On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a…

— Walter Rodney

“Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register advances which in turn will promote further progress.…

— Walter Rodney

“In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts that…

— Walter Rodney

“The peasants and workers of Europe (and eventually the inhabitants of the whole world) paid a huge price so that the capitalists…

— Walter Rodney

“The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound…

— Walter Rodney

“From the beginning, Europe assumed the power to make decisions within the international trading system. An excellent illustration of that is the…

— Walter Rodney