Affair Quote by John Henrik Clarke

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.

— Kwame Nkrumah

Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by…

— Walter Rodney

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African…

— Kwame Nkrumah

The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst…

— John Henrik Clarke

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

— Arthur L. Herman

“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread…

— Scott Anderson

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

My grandfather passed away in 1946, too early to see his dream of an independent India being realized.

— Rohini Nilekani

“The subject was not foreign missions anyway but the situation in India, which many Englishmen called ‘East India’ to distinguish from the American Indians.…

— Sam Wellman

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like…

— Doris Lessing

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples…

— Stanley Wolpert