"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."
― John Henrik Clarke
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― John Henrik Clarke
More From 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."
- "A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson."
- "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."
More In Power
- "The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."― John Stuart Mill
- "I’m a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I’m commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car."― Murray Walker
- "I became a musician so I wouldn’t have to get up at 6 in the morning."― Norah Jones