"As Africans, we need to share common recognition……" — Thabo Mbeki
"As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent."
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41 Quotes by Thabo Mbeki
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How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An…
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There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard…
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We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival…
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A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
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For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
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Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of…
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We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.
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Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not…
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South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
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The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human…
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One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a…
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In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the…
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or…
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most…
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When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans…
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Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a…
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By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time…
— Brad Pitt
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for…
— Thomas Sowell
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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity…
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