"Those who oppressed us described us as the…" — Thabo Mbeki
"Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!"
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41 Quotes by Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mbeki has 41 quotes on this site.
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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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More Continent Quotes
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one of 345 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
— James Agee
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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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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look…
— Bono
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through…
— David Cameron
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
— David Cameron
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer…
— Richard Lamm
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Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there.…
— Benjamin Boukpeti
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Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation…
— Richard Halverson
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In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her…
— Adolf Hitler
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