"Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot……" — Eskinder Nega
"Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated."
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13 Quotes by Eskinder Nega
Eskinder Nega has 13 quotes on this site.
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Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and…
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I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.
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Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave…
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Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit…
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In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world…
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I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s.…
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As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and…
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I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said…
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All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
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Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
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As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia.…
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We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in…
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More Averted Quotes
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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and…
— Cameron Diaz
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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are…
— Adolf Hitler
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Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer…
— Jonathon Porritt
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to…
— Elihu Root
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We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest…
— Noah Feldman
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My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given…
— Mary Slessor
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Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us…
— Robert Ley
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Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the…
— Charles Dickens
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So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
— Michael Kinsley
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R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought.…
— John Thomas Sladek
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Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the…
— George Eliot
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