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- I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is…
- 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…
- Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can…
- I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the…
- I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in…
- Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we…
- It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the…
- Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle