Maulana Karenga Quotes
We must study history to learn its lessons, absorb its spirit of possibility, extract and emulate its models of excellence and possibility and honor the moral obligation to remember. We must measure ourselves in the mirror of the best of our history and constantly ask ourselves how can we use the past as a foundation to inform, expand and enrich our present and future.
Maulana Karenga, Director of the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies, National Chairman of The Organization Us, Member of the Executive Council of the National Organizing Committee of the Million Man March, “African Culture and the Ongoing Quest for Excellence.”
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In almost all nations until modern times, criticism of the monarch was dangerous and often life threatening and it didn’t happen very often. Taizong, one of the great Chinese Emperors, was unique in that he not only tolerated criticism of him and his administration but he purposely required that his advisors criticize him. Weizheng was his favored subject who criticized him freely and constructively. See related quote for a more modern statement of Taizong’s principle.
His act, for which he and the other plotters paid with their lives, was indeed, one of the only acts of German resistance to the murderous, evil policies of the country with Hitler as leader. Germans of future generations and other people more than half a century later condemned an entire German generation because more Germans did not act as Tresckow did.
Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, previously known as Ron Karenga, is an American professor of Africana studies, activist, and author best known as the creator of the pan-African and the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa.
