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John Henrik Clarke
Age: 83 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: July 16
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Union Springs
Alabama
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I believe in doing good for good's sake.
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I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.
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No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.
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Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
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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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We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.
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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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My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.
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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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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 order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.
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The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.
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I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
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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.
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In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.
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Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.
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We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.
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This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.
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The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.
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