"The Europeans not only colonialized most of the……" — John Henrik Clarke
"The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans."
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John Henrik Clarke
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59 Quotes by John Henrik Clarke
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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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