"After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7,……" — John Henrik Clarke
"After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality."
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John Henrik Clarke
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59 Quotes by John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke has 59 quotes on this site.
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not…
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Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to…
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans 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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