Amos N. Wilson

Amos Nelson Wilson (February 23, 1941 or 1940 January 14, 1995) was an African-American theoretical psychologist, social theorist, Pan-African thinker, scholar, author and a professor of psychology at the City University of New York. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941 Wilson completed his undergraduate degree at the Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1964, master's degree at The New School of Social Research, and attained a PhD degree from Fordham University in New York.[1][2] QuotesWilson worked as a psychologist, social caseworker, supervising probation officer and as a training administrator in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice. As an academic, Wilson also taught at City University of New York from 1981 to 1986 and at the College of New Rochelle from 1987 to 1995. He was also an adjunct instructor for several colleges in the New York City area, including New York Institute of Technology. On January 14, 1995, Wilson died from complications of stroke at a local hospital in Brooklyn, NY. He was 53. His survivors include a son, Raheem.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amos_N._Wilson&action=edit Quotes Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons, anger is a positive emotion if it used correctly, so is aggression. God did not put anger and aggression in you just for negative purposes alone. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5968207.Amos_Wilson Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpetration of injustice. If restitution is not made and reparations not instituted to compensate for prior injustices, those injustices are in effect rewarded. And the benefits such rewards conferred on the perpetrators of injustice will continue to "draw interest," to be reinvested, and to be passed on to their children, who will use their inherited advantages to continue to exploit the children of the victims of the injustices of their ancestors. Consequently, injustice and inequality will be maintained across the generations as will their deleterious social, economic, and political outcomes.https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5968207.Amos_Wilson If your history is not usable as a tool for your survival, then it is a history that has been written for you by your enemies. We study history not to look back, but to prepare to move forward with power. The oppressor must control the mind of the oppressed, or the oppressor must leave. The education of the child must look toward the liberation of the people. References