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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 have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls -…
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To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to…
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We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to…
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To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon
— Nelson Mandela
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Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can…
— Lil Wayne
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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground.…
— Karl G. Maeser
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
— Pat Brown
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Some bright morning when this life is over, I'll fly away, Like a bird from these prison walls, No more cold iron…
— Glen Rambharack
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