"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool"
- Plato
"Teach a child or nation that it springs from an inferior race and that is can never hope to overcome that inferiority, and you have made an obedient servant and a community of slaves."
- George Wells Parker
"They must find it difficult, those who have accepted authority as truth, rather than the truth as authority."
- Gerald Massey, Egyptologist
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery...
- Bob Marley
"Colonialism is not satisfied merely with hiding
a people in its grip and emptying the native's
brain of all form and content. By a kind of
perverted logic, it turns to the past of the
oppressed people, and distorts,
disfigures and destroys it."
- Frantz Fanon, On National Culture Colonial
Discourse and Post-colonial Theory
"Three things cannot be hidden for long:
the sun, the moon, and the truth."
- HoneyB
"To manipulate an image is to control
a peoplehood. Zero image has for a long
time meant the repression of our peoplehood."
- Carolyn Gerald
"My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that
thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou
hast forgotten the law of thy God,
I will also forget thy children."
- Hosea 4:6.
"In my music, my plays, my films, I want
to carry always this central idea:
to be African."
- Paul Robeson, Activist, Actor and Singer
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