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1. “RBG Communiversity Professor John Henrik Clarke Quotes”
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress,
because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You
will take it.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became
the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to
people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the
framework to control their minds.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part
of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when
you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people,
you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
“RBG Communiversity Professor John Henrik Clarke Quotes”
From: RBG DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE STUDIES COLLECTION

2. “RBG Communiversity Professor John Henrik Clarke Quotes”
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's
attention, then he can teach his lesson.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development,
study guides and other teaching materials.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but
to facilitate the European's control over the world.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first
civilizations were in Africa.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African
civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians,
for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land of The Burnt-Face
People.'
Professor John Henrik Clarke
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that
they are supposed to be oppressed.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
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.
Professor John Henrik Clarke

3. “RBG Communiversity Professor John Henrik Clarke Quotes”
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least
understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the
15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade
system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they
began to colonialize information about the world and its people.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships
brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians
or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African
people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the
places where slave ships dropped us off.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States
would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a
European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European
scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a
reality.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear
Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said.
Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and
join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more
believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free
man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are
on your mind.
Professor John Henrik Clarke

4. “RBG Communiversity Professor John Henrik Clarke Quotes”
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly
troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and
notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions
that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated
way, articulate a series of answers.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
History 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.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
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.
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.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
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.
Professor John Henrik Clarke

5. “RBG Communiversity Professor John Henrik Clarke Quotes”
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing
segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of
hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
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.
Professor John Henrik Clarke
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama
clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I
was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and
I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones
and in my spirit.
Professor John Henrik Clarke