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You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.
John Henrik Clarke
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John Henrik Clarke
Age: 83 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: July 16
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Alabama
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No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.
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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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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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What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I think that the most atrocious of all of this is Islam. They were in the slave trade before Islam. The Arabs were natural slave traders. They were the people who were called on to conquer us, unfortunately.
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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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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
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I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.
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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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The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.
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All life is a test one way or the other.
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Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.
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I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.
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If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.
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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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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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If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.
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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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I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.
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We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.
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