“It is a natural human instinct to turn our fears into symbols, and destroy the symbols, in the hope that it will destroy the fear. It is a logic that keeps recurring throughout human history, from the Crusades to the witch hunts to the present day.”
― Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
― Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
“The presence of a group of African sell-outs is part of the definition of underdevelopment. Any”
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.”
― A Collection of Essays
― A Collection of Essays
“Indeed we generally remember ancient civilizations best by those buildings which most exploited the labor of ordinary people and most glorified the vanity of a single autocrat.”
― The No-Nonsense Guide to World History
― The No-Nonsense Guide to World History
“If economic power is centered outside national African boundaries, then political and military power in any real sense is also centered outside until, and unless, the masses of peasants and workers are mobilized to offer an alternative to the system of sham political independence. All”
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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