"Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa……" — Haile Selassie
"Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous."
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72 Quotes by Haile Selassie
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A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice…
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A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed…
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge…
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As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
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Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal,…
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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness…
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If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon…
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It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the…
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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in…
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That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual…
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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