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)

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

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