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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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