Culture Quote by Ibn Warraq Download Open image “Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.” — Ibn Warraq ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Positive response Response Society and culture Western Western society
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed... — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Contrary to various economic theories of imperialism, Africa was not a major outlet for European investment or exports.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share
Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share
Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image