724 Africa Quotes for You to Enjoy

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world. Marcus Garvey

Today Game World Political Big Become Nation Hunters Industrial Greatest Commercial Prize Africa

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this. Bono

Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death. J. M. Coetzee

Life Love Death World South Africa Busy Indifferent Bleeding Sore Narrow-Minded Israel Lebanon South Ireland Same Africa Wherever Fanatics Body

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. Jane Goodall

Life Dreams Family Me College Girl My Life Animals Back Everyone Secretary Laughed Out About Through Put Almost Over Supposed Look Passionate Go Afford Africa Laid Little Plan Little Girl Who Whose Her

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was. Jim Elliot

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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. Malcolm X

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that. Miriam Makeba

Truth People World Political South Africa Everybody Tell Admit About My Truth Wrong Come Know Becomes How South Did Just Africa Where Wanted Anything Apartheid Then Who Lived Now

We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior. Steven Biko

Made Superior South Africa Relationships Must Blacks Only Know Also South Inferior Same Human Africa Which Realize Prelude Whites Groups

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important. Fred Hampton

Education You Colonialism Important About Instead Haiti Like Talking Got Educational Very Africa Now Program

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. Joe Slovo

Capitalism South Africa Exploitation Difficult Immediately See Sees Between Terms Alternative South Link Person Africa Ordinary Ordinary Person Socialist Thinks

We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality. Meles Zenawi

Best Reality Poverty Past Own Our Worst Calendar Terms Also Greatness Represent Africa African Script Present

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself. Athol Fugard

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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa. Bono

You Walk Christian Africa Cannot Away

I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself. Burning Spear

Me Yourself Speak Fear Doubt Defeat Tries About Individual No-One Feel Like Himself Within Africa Form Wherein Ashamed Themselves Roots Should Who Originate

I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa. Candice Swanepoel

Inspirational Day People World Made Wildlife One Day Featured Putting Like Underprivileged End List Africa Difference Whether Who Helping

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers. John Henrik Clarke

Best History Local Has-Been Record Writers Written Adventurers Missionaries Been Foreigners Left Egyptians Africa The History Of Unfortunate Much Conquerors

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible. Justin Cartwright

Strange Corruption Crime South Africa Sense Possible About Seems Stimulating South Offer Africa Anything Anything Is Possible Strange Thing Thing

We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard. Marcus Garvey

Welcome Battle World See Determined Through Because Opposition Heard Africa

My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans. Oliver Tambo

Youth People Problem South Africa Pressures Cheap Goods Forced Calling South South African Governments Labor Africa African Convince

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. Robert Mugabe

Man White Indigenous Africa African Zimbabwe

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