--- title: "4 CLR James Quotes" description: "Cyril Lionel Robert James, who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was a Trinidadian historian, journalist, Trotskyist activist, and Marxi..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/093/clr-james-73491_war_thousands-of-brave-black-soldiers-were-d_1106476.jpg" --- # CLR James **4** quotes in **5** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Cyril Lionel Robert James, who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was a Trinidadian historian, journalist, Trotskyist activist, and Marxist writer. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. His work is a staple of Marxism, and he figures ## Quotes by CLR James > [“Thousands of brave black soldiers were dead for no other crime than that of refusing to be slaves once more. The colony…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clr-james/thousands-of-brave-black-soldiers-were-dead-for-no-other-crime-than/) CLR James [War](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/093/clr-james-73491_war_thousands-of-brave-black-soldiers-were-d_1106476.jpg) > [“The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clr-james/the-race-question-is-subsidiary-to-the-class-question-in-politics-and-2/) CLR James [Politics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c38/clr-james-73491_class-race-politics_the-race-question-is-subsidiary-to-the-c_1950562.jpg) > [“The prejudice of race is superficially the most irrational of all prejudices, and by a perfectly comprehensible reaction the Paris workers, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clr-james/the-prejudice-of-race-is-superficially-the-most-irrational-of-all/) CLR James [Prejudice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/prejudice/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bea/clr-james-73491_racism_the-prejudice-of-race-is-superficially-t_2114901.jpg) > [“When Rochambeau put to death 500 at Le Cap and buried them in a large hole dug while they waited for execution,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clr-james/when-rochambeau-put-to-death-500-at-le-cap-and-buried-them-in-a-large/) CLR James [Anarchist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/clr-james-73491_anarchist_when-rochambeau-put-to-death-500-at-le-c_2452163.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clr-james/#itemlist", "name": "CLR James Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Thousands of brave black soldiers were dead for no other crime than that of refusing to be slaves once more. The colony was devastated, and blacks and whites were murdering each other with a growing ferocity, in what was called a race war, but whose origin was not in their different colours but in the greed of the French bourgeoisie.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "CLR James" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clr-james/thousands-of-brave-black-soldiers-were-dead-for-no-other-crime-than/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/093/clr-james-73491_war_thousands-of-brave-black-soldiers-were-d_1106476.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/093/clr-james-73491_war_thousands-of-brave-black-soldiers-were-d_1106476.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/093/clr-james-73491_war_thousands-of-brave-black-soldiers-were-d_1106476.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Thousands of brave black soldiers were dead for no other crime than that of refusing to be slaves once more…” — CLR James", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. 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But neither Dessalines' army nor his ferocity won the victory. It was the people. They burned San Domingo flat so that at the end of the war it was a charred desert. Why do you burn everything? asked a French officer of a prisoner. 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