Walter Rodney Quotes

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

Walter Rodney

#2. 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.

Walter Rodney

#3. The human journey is a continuous act of transfiguration.

John O'Donohue

#4. Who we are is how we are in relation to others

C. Terry Warner

#5. 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?

Walter Rodney

#6. 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.

Walter Rodney

#7. Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.

Stella Gibbons

#8. I keep remembering - I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

Henri Barbusse

#9. A fugitive paradise smiles at him from her eyes: He dreams of her beauty made for ever his, He dreams of his mastery her limbs shall bear, He dreams of the magic of her breasts of bliss.

Sri Aurobindo

#10. I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger chance than I would have if I stayed in the car and burned to death. Hell's bells, what I wouldn't give to have my shield bracelet. Or my old staff. I didn't even have an umbrella.

Jim Butcher

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

Walter Rodney

#12. All that I have to say has already crossed your mind,' said he. "'Then possibly my answer has crossed yours,' I replied.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. And with courage came freedom.

Danielle Steel

#14. A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Saul Alinsky

#15. We must always remember that we are only midwives - if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.

Diana Athill

#16. Mad science is my middle name.

James Jannard

#17. Savage man, once he has eaten, is at peace with all of nature and the friend of all his fellow humans. Is

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Walter Rodney

#19. Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Jenni Schaefer

#20. 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

Walter Rodney

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

Walter Rodney

#22. I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

Zachary Levi

#23. 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

Walter Rodney

#24. Our prayer is that as you read, you'll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it's helping you open up; and that you'll praise not the author of this book, but the One he is pointing you to.

Timothy J. Keller