Maulana Karenga famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.
-- Maulana Karenga

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There was a thrust to raise the consciousness of the people and we argued that in order to free ourselves we must be ourselves, Africans, a people oppressed and in struggle. And we must be self-conscious about this.
-- Maulana Karenga

#Struggle #People #Consciousness
The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture.
-- Maulana Karenga

#Integrity #Holiday #Kwanzaa
I'm grateful to see my work flourish in my lifetime. Many of the great people in our history were not able to see how much their work, suffering and sacrifices enriched our lives and pushed our struggle forward. But I've been blessed to see my work begin in a family home, spread around the world and be embraced by millions of African people throughout the world African community.
-- Maulana Karenga

#Struggle #Blessed #Grateful

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.
I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.

Maulana Karenga famous quotes

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