"To control a people you must first control……" — John Henrik Clarke
"To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you."
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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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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is…
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough.…
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer…
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to…
— Jacob Bronowski
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be…
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take…
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