Best Ethiopia Quotes
55 Ethiopia quotes by 40 unique authors
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Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
— Richard Leakey
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I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red…
— Lenny Henry
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This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to…
— Marcus Garvey
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Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a…
— Marcus Garvey
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Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
— Marcus Garvey
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply…
— Bayard Taylor
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In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints…
— Henry Louis Gates
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Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We…
— Haile Gebrselassie
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
— Haile Gebrselassie
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You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the…
— Haile Gebrselassie
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I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a…
— Dick Gregory
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I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for…
— Hugh Jackman
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I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from…
— Brad Pitt
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As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where…
— David Sedaris
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Men!" "At least we don't fake it." "Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice and got us…
— Janet Evanovich
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What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change…
— Michael Scott
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My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her…
— Lisa Kristine
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I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make…
— Liya Kebede
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
— Dinaw Mengestu
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My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime…
— Elliott Abrams
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As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United…
— Eskinder Nega
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As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result…
— Eskinder Nega
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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to…
— Joanna Lumley
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