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.
John Henrik ClarkeEuropeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.
John Henrik ClarkeHistory is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.
John Henrik ClarkeThe population of African people in the United States is far in excess of six small European nations. Where we are going? We have to go back as best we can to where slavery and colonialism took us from. And they took us from a concept of nation management and nation maintenance. We have been so long away from home we unfortunately have forgotten how we ruled states before the foreigners got there.
John Henrik Clarke...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.
John Henrik ClarkeIt is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.
John Henrik Clarke