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very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient
persistence." | |
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Sir Robert Baden-Powell
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| "A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer
because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because
he was a lawyer." | |
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A. Whitney Brown
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| "Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a
photographer"s paradise, a hunter"s Valhalla, an escapist"s Utopia. It is
what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last
vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of
people, as to myself, it is just "home". It is all these things but one
thing ? it is never dull." | |
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Beryl Markham
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| "Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your
arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me
as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes...." | |
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Aime Cesaire
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| "An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it
ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city,
we will be able to speed up that day when all of God"s children, black men
and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able
to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at
last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."" | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "For Africa to me ... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a
historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows
exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present
place." | |
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Maya Angelou
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| "He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it." | |
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Proverb
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| "I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in
Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she
can serve others." | |
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Julia Mavimbela
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| "I"ve always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are
vastly underpolluted. [Chief economist of the World Bank,explaining why we
should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.]" | |
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Lawrence Summers
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| "In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central
idea: to be African." | |
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Paul Robeson
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| "In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln did not hesitate to
dispel the notion that he was a champion of racial equality: "I will say
then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any
way the social and political equality of the white and black races ? that
I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of
Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with
white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical
difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever
forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political
equality."" | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of
always looking at one"s self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels
his twoness, ? an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two
unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged
strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." | |
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W.E.B. DuBois
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| "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of
always looking at one?s self through the eyes of others.... One feels his
two-ness ? an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled
strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone
keeps it from being torn asunder." | |
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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| "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter." | |
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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| "People in the United States still have a "Tarzan" movie view of
Africa. That"s because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals
... We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and
fall in love." | |
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Miriam Makeba
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| "Quick, sunrise, come! Sunrise out of Africa, Quick, come!" | |
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James Langston Hughes
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| "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and
for several days we had nothing to live on but food and water." | |
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W. C. Fields
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| "The African, because of the violent differences between what was
native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most
complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable." | |
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Imamu Amiri Baraka
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| "The Dark Continent, Africa." | |
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley
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| "The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me
rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove
his worth." | |
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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| "The wind of change is blowing through this content, Africa." | |
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Harold MacMillan
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| "There is always something new out of Africa." | |
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Pliny the Elder
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| "TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans")
whose bite is commonly regarded as nature"s most efficacious remedy for
insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist
("Mendax interminabilis")." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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