Dusé Mohamed Ali Quotes
A collection of quotations by the influential, early twentieth century Pan-Africanist, Dusé Mohamed Ali.
"Colour prejudice is at the root of most of the "Oriental incapacity" which bulks so largely in English literature ... Anglo-Saxon educational achievement is accounted erudition, while Oriental educational attainments are indiscriminately labelled "educational veneer", or "a veneer of Western culture"; and this applies not only to Orientals, but to all the coloured races of the world."
From chapter 1 of In the land of the pharaohs: a short history of Egypt from the fall of Ismail to the assassination of Boutros Pasha by Duse Mohamed, published by Stanley Paul and Co., 1911.
"Europe stretches out her hands on every side to squeeze the darker races to her advantage, because she knows the people of Africa and the people of Asia to be divided. Her aim has been to promote division. It therefore behoves you, men of Asia, men of Africa, to join yourselves in one common bond of lasting friendship."
From an editorial by Dusé Mohamed Ali in a November 1912 edition of his paper, the African Times and Orient Review, as quoted in Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood, Pan-African History, Routledge, 2003.
"In attempting to write a history, I am quite aware of the difficulties which beset my path, inasmuch as there are so many "histories" of Egypt. Many of these histories are wise, and not a few, otherwise; but each and every one for the most part is prejudicial to Home Rule in Egypt, and is wanting in that chief historical element -- impartiality ... That I am qualified to deal adequately with the period under consideration, there need be little doubt. In the first place, I am a native Egyptian with a full knowledge of the aims of my fellow-countrymen, and consequently in sympathy with their sufferings socially and politically ... I have no "axe to grind", nor am I identified with any political party; the reader may therefore count upon an honest and impartial statement of facts."
From chapter 1 of In the land of the pharaohs: a short history of Egypt from the fall of Ismail to the assassination of Boutros Pasha by Duse Mohamed, published by Stanley Paul and Co., 1911.
"Colour prejudice is at the root of most of the "Oriental incapacity" which bulks so largely in English literature ... Anglo-Saxon educational achievement is accounted erudition, while Oriental educational attainments are indiscriminately labelled "educational veneer", or "a veneer of Western culture"; and this applies not only to Orientals, but to all the coloured races of the world."
From chapter 1 of In the land of the pharaohs: a short history of Egypt from the fall of Ismail to the assassination of Boutros Pasha by Duse Mohamed, published by Stanley Paul and Co., 1911.
"Europe stretches out her hands on every side to squeeze the darker races to her advantage, because she knows the people of Africa and the people of Asia to be divided. Her aim has been to promote division. It therefore behoves you, men of Asia, men of Africa, to join yourselves in one common bond of lasting friendship."
From an editorial by Dusé Mohamed Ali in a November 1912 edition of his paper, the African Times and Orient Review, as quoted in Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood, Pan-African History, Routledge, 2003.
"In attempting to write a history, I am quite aware of the difficulties which beset my path, inasmuch as there are so many "histories" of Egypt. Many of these histories are wise, and not a few, otherwise; but each and every one for the most part is prejudicial to Home Rule in Egypt, and is wanting in that chief historical element -- impartiality ... That I am qualified to deal adequately with the period under consideration, there need be little doubt. In the first place, I am a native Egyptian with a full knowledge of the aims of my fellow-countrymen, and consequently in sympathy with their sufferings socially and politically ... I have no "axe to grind", nor am I identified with any political party; the reader may therefore count upon an honest and impartial statement of facts."
From chapter 1 of In the land of the pharaohs: a short history of Egypt from the fall of Ismail to the assassination of Boutros Pasha by Duse Mohamed, published by Stanley Paul and Co., 1911.