"For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor."

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Source : Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.131, Fahamu/Pambazuka

Walter Rodney

#Struggle Quotes #Men Quotes #Unfree Quotes

“Trump claims he'd be the "best jobs president that God ever created." But isn't his claim to fame firing people?”
“I feel like I've been becoming more and more like the city I had been living in and creating in.”
“The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.”
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”
“We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.”
“Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.”
“The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.”

Source : "Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind". Book by John Searle, 1983.
“I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.”

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