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Top 20 Walter Rodney Quotes (2024 Update)

Walter Rodney Quote: “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?”

1. “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

Walter Rodney Quote: “For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.”

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

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “The presence of a group of African sell-outs is part of the definition of underdevelopment. Any.”

3. “The presence of a group of African sell-outs is part of the definition of underdevelopment. Any.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Walter Rodney Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Walter Rodney Quote: “Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.”

6. “Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “Sometimes, the word “stateless” is carelessly or even abusively used; but it does describe those peoples who had no machinery of government coercion and no concept of a political unit wider than the family or the village. 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.”

7. “Sometimes, the word “stateless” is carelessly or even abusively used; but it does describe those peoples who had no machinery of government coercion and no concept of a political unit wider than the family or the village. 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

Walter Rodney Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Walter Rodney Quote: “Christ was a member of the Essene group of Jews from Egypt. Were he alive today, he would suffer from racial discrimination.”

9. “Christ was a member of the Essene group of Jews from Egypt. Were he alive today, he would suffer from racial discrimination.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it’s overthrow.”

10. “Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it’s overthrow.”

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Walter Rodney Quote: “If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means.”

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

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Walter Rodney Quote: “It is as though no black man can see another black man except by looking through a white person. It is time we started seeing through our own eyes.”

13. “It is as though no black man can see another black man except by looking through a white person. It is time we started seeing through our own eyes.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “The white world defines who is white and who is black.”

14. “The white world defines who is white and who is black.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “I’m putting it to my black brothers and sisters that the colour of our skins is the most fundamental thing about us.”

15. “I’m putting it to my black brothers and sisters that the colour of our skins is the most fundamental thing about us.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent’s raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial rule.”

16. “It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent’s raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial rule.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “There is nothing with which poverty coincides so absolutely as the colour black – small or large population, hot or cold climates, rich or poor in natural resources – poverty cuts across all of these factors in order to find black people.”

17. “There is nothing with which poverty coincides so absolutely as the colour black – small or large population, hot or cold climates, rich or poor in natural resources – poverty cuts across all of these factors in order to find black people.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “Beauty is in the very existence of black people.”

18. “Beauty is in the very existence of black people.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “Malcolm X, our martyred brother, became the greatest threat to white power in the USA because he began to seek a broader basis for his efforts in Africa and Asia, and he was probably the first individual who was prepared to bring the race question in the US up before the UN as an issue of international importance.”

19. “Malcolm X, our martyred brother, became the greatest threat to white power in the USA because he began to seek a broader basis for his efforts in Africa and Asia, and he was probably the first individual who was prepared to bring the race question in the US up before the UN as an issue of international importance.”

— Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney Quote: “Black Power is not racially intolerant. It is the hope of the black man that he should have power over his own destinies. This is not incompatible with a multiracial society where each individual counts equally. Because the moment that power is equitably distributed among several ethnic groups, the very relevance of making the distinction between groups will be lost.”

20. “Black Power is not racially intolerant. It is the hope of the black man that he should have power over his own destinies. This is not incompatible with a multiracial society where each individual counts equally. Because the moment that power is equitably distributed among several ethnic groups, the very relevance of making the distinction between groups will be lost.”

— Walter Rodney

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