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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 lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
John Henrik Clarke
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John Henrik Clarke
Age: 83 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: July 16
Historian
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Union Springs
Alabama
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Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.
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In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.
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Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
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People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.
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The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.
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I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.
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The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.
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History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.
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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
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I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.
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In the African matrilineal society, the lineage of the bloodline comes down through the female side. The Arabs who invaded East Africa and other parts of Africa reversed it to the patrilineal where everything comes down through the male side and the woman has no basic rights except that which the male is willing to grant her.
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Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.
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In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.
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I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.
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In a matrilineal society, a woman has basic rights that no one has to grant her but you can't take it away from her because the society is based on the concept that the lifegiver is equal to those she gave the life to. And that will remain... until you find a pregnant man.
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I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'
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No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.
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Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY
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Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.
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