Walter Rodney Quotes

#1. There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into sharp conflict with people's demands that their material and social needs should be fulfilled. Pg. 10

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#2. Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it's overthrow.

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#3. 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

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#4. Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

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

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#6. If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

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#7. A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.

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#8. By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

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#9. After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

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