Best Africa Sayings
1183 Africa quotes by 694 unique authors
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An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my…
— Henry Morton Stanley
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not…
— Paul Robeson
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When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me…
— Hakeem Olajuwon
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved…
— Thomas Sowell
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In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and…
— James Madison
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Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people…
— Mother Teresa
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When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully…
— George W. Bush
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Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force…
— Winston Churchill
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine…
— Mamphela Ramphele
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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
— Taylor Kitsch
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[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set…
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime
— Unknown Author
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That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.
— Nigel Dennis
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In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories…
— Osama bin Laden
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or…
— Ban Ki-moon
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If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and…
— Adam Sedgwick
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We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept…
— Julius Malema
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We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of…
— John Dramani Mahama
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I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that…
— Unknown Author
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