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> [West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/west-indian-people-had-made-their-greatest-single-cultural-investment/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

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## More by Hilary Beckles

> [You can read Windrush as a morality tale, but it is about the future of black people in the Caribbean. Where next will they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/you-can-read-windrush-as-a-morality-tale-but-it-is-about-the-future/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/what-are-the-10-major-legacies-that-european-colonization-have-left/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [The Caribbean calls upon the enslaving governments of Europe and their national institutions, all enriched and empowered by their crimes against humanity, to return…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/the-caribbean-calls-upon-the-enslaving-governments-of-europe-and/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [Effectively transcending and conquering the legacies of enchainment, impoverishment and racial denigration continue to elude us. Residual elements of the plantation-based past continue to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/effectively-transcending-and-conquering-the-legacies-of-enchainment/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [Effectively, what we are saying to the governments of Europe is, 'OK, after 300 years, you have left these islands in a pretty bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/effectively-what-we-are-saying-to-the-governments-of-europe-is-ok/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of bridges across…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/reparative-justice-is-not-about-black-people-standing-on-the-street/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [West Indian Test cricketers are among the top world cricketers in terms of pay and remuneration. They are not underpaid. They are easily in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/west-indian-test-cricketers-are-among-the-top-world-cricketers-in/)

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> [If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/if-the-british-public-were-shown-slavery-in-their-own-society-seen/)

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> [Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/pushing-ahead-with-a-self-emancipatory-agenda-is-critical-but-we-must/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/west-indian-people-had-made-their-greatest-single-cultural-investment/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [The cricket star, like everyone else, should have an intelligent understanding of the crisis of the nation-state and the marginalisation of small communities within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/the-cricket-star-like-everyone-else-should-have-an-intelligent/)

[Hilary Beckles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-beckles/)

> [The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-beckles/the-caribbean-world-has-changed-radically-since-the-1960s-and/)

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