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
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place. — 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
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and… — 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
