You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.
John Henrik ClarkeIf you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.
John Henrik ClarkeEuropeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.
John Henrik ClarkeIt is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.
John Henrik Clarke