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John Henrik Clarke has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people…
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A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in…
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To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that…
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A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
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What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of…
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and…
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains…
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or…
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Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
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I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning.…
— John Henrik Clarke
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I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.
— Chuck Close
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Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn…
— Charles Barkley
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We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged…
— Barack Obama
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You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?
— Anthony Hopkins
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A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black…
— Wilbur Smith
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He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
— Jupiter Hammon
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white…
— Rita Mae Brown
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I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians,…
— Gordon Parks
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I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice…
— Henry Louis Gates
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I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
— Eminem
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I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should…
— J C Watts
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