Trinidad and Tobago is a country with a rich cultural heritage, reflecting the diverse histories of its individuals. From the rhythms of calypso and soca songs to the colorful practices of Carnival, Trinidad and also Tobago is a country that commemorates life, pleasure, as well as resilience. In this article, we will certainly check out a few of the most unforgettable and also inspiring quotes from Trinidadian poets, writers, as well as leaders. These quotes use insight into the challenges and also accomplishments of the Trinidadian people, as well as the worths and ideas that are essential to their society. Whether discussing identification, creativity, or the relevance of neighborhood, these quotes provide a glimpse right into the unique society and heritage of Trinidad as well as Tobago.
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts"
"The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class"
"It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more"
"I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation"
"Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached"
"I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist"
"I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking"
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island"
"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people"
"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism"
"The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848"
"One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership"
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo"
"Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation"
"In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital"
"After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government"