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one of the historical truths of all history is that the oppressed never revere their oppressors.

— Claudia Jones Statement (1953)

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Marxism-Leninism — that philosophy that not only rejects racists ideas, but is the antithesis of them.

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The thinking process, as your Honour well knows, is a process that defies jailing.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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