John Henrik Clarke Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• 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.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Slave Ships, People, West

• It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Games, Slave Ships, People

• 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.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, World, Information

• 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 Clarke

  People, Support, Community

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• When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Europe, Firsts, Slave

  John Henrik Clarke (1993). “African people in world history”, Black Classic Pr

• I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch of hypocrites. They don't mean what they say because all of them are in the slave trade one way or the other.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Hypocrite, Mean, Thinking

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• The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Slave, Trade, Slave Trade

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• What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I think that the most atrocious of all of this is Islam. They were in the slave trade before Islam. The Arabs were natural slave traders. They were the people who were called on to conquer us, unfortunately.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Thinking, People, Islam

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• After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Independent, Islam, Spain

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