When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.
John Henrik ClarkeTo 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.
John Henrik ClarkeIf we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.
John Henrik ClarkeYou walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.
John Henrik ClarkeHistory is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
John Henrik Clarke