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During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and…

— Stephen Kinzer

The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to…

— Nelson Mandela

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

— Omar Bongo

The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times…

— J. Anthony Lukas

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles did not…

— Malcolm H. Murfett

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

— George Ayittey

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it…

— Angela Merkel

After the end of the cold war, everybody thought, fantastic, finally the UN may be able to do what it was originally set up…

— Kofi Annan

“after the Civil War both parties now were controlled by capitalists. They were divided along North-South lines, still hung over with the animosities of…

— Howard Zinn

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

— Matt Taibbi

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

— Umberto Eco