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Africans Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you…
- No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an…
- South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the…
- We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we…
- There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined action…
- The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come…
- Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
- Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC…
More Africans Quotes
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all… — Bono
- I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved… — Bono
- It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or… — Bono
- We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
- Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or… — John Henrik Clarke
- The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old… — John Henrik Clarke
- When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not… — John Henrik Clarke
- Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party. — Unknown Author
- By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening,… — Brad Pitt
- Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell
- American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison