6 Quotes by Chancellor Williams

In ancient times "African" and "Ethiopian" meant the same thing: A Black

The hand of opposition is never exposed.

In other words, there can be no real identity with our heritage until we know what our heritage really is. It is all hidden in our history, but we are ignorant of that history. We have been floating alone, basking blissfully in the sunny heritage of other peoples!

For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints.

In this way, and in no other, we can determine what our heritage really was and, instead of just talking about “identity,” we shall know at last precisely what purely African body of principles, value systems or philosophy of life gradually evolved from our own forefathers over countless ages, and we will be able to develop an African ideology to guide us onward. In other words, there c.

And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that slavery was finally concentrated in Africa on Blacks only? In short, no books or other studies in high school and college answered or gave clues to answers to the problems that puzzled me the most.