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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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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or…
— John Henrik Clarke
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we…
— Jesse Jackson
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I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
— Kendrick Lamar
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America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in…
— Pat Buchanan
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Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,…
— William J. Clinton
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Black is not defined by the media: Tall T's, Saggy Pants, Icy Teeth or Style of Dance. Black is not defined by…
— Kamanda Ndama
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.Dead dreams dropping off theheart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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