Class Quote by Walter Rodney

Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for its…

— Walter Rodney

“From the beginning, Europe assumed the power to make decisions within the international trading system. An excellent illustration of that is the fact that…

— Walter Rodney

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

— Walter Rodney

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of…

— Walter Rodney

“On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to…

— Walter Rodney

Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to…

— Walter Rodney

“The peasants and workers of Europe (and eventually the inhabitants of the whole world) paid a huge price so that the capitalists could make…

— Walter Rodney

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

“In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts that are not…

— Walter Rodney

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

— Walter Rodney

“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are aware that…

— Walter Rodney

“Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register advances which in turn will promote further progress. The loss…

— Walter Rodney