Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

John Henrik ClarkeAuthor · American · 1915 – 1998
More from John Henrik Clarke
History QuotesEducation QuotesSunday Quotes
#Age
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H. L. Mencken
  • If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. — George Bernard Shaw
  • It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. — Eric Hoffer
  • A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. — John Henrik Clarke
  • Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. — John Henrik Clarke
  • My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. — John Henrik Clarke
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026