Quotes
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John Henrik Clarke

"It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization."

Source : Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1977). “Seven Servants: Four Works”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

John Henrik Clarke

#Skills Quotes #Roots Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I had to give it a full go and see what happened.”
“Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.”

Source : "Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii", 1972.
“Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.”
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter â€” the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. ...Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.”
“If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.”
“Progress is the stride of God.”
“In marriage for example, you say 'Yes' on the day you get married, 'I do', but each day you implicitly if not explicitly, also say 'Yes', by every act that one performs in a marriage, one is saying 'Yes', making a cup of coffee for one's wife or husband is a form of saying 'Yes' to the marriage vow that one is continuing the marriage by affirming it in one's deeds. And exactly the same in the religious life.”
“...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis because of confusion, malaise, and yes, even propriety.”

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