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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African…

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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for…
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people…
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in…
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that…
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of…
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and…
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains…
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or…
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations… — John Henrik Clarke
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley
There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life. — Arnold Haultain
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more… — Aldo Leopold
If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get… — Milton Friedman
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with… — Nelson Algren
There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time,… — Unknown Author
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. — Wynn Bullock
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important,… — Alfred North Whitehead
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. — Elsa Maxwell
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions… — William Osler
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. — Robert Frost

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