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

- Walter Rodney

Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for it…

- Walter Rodney

Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessar…

- Walter Rodney

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

- Walter Rodney

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 th…

- Walter Rodney

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

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 b…

- Walter Rodney

Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of …

- Walter Rodney

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

- Walter Rodney