Quotes about africa
african-american
Our only hope is to control the... Medgar Evers
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The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. Mary Landrieu
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Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time. Michelle Alexander
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If the man is good, we in Africa can keep him. He's solving our problems. Why trouble ourselves with uncertainty? Why must we discuss longevity as an issue on its own? Maybe this is African-style democracy.
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It has both social, political and historical dynamics to it. That story is not singularly an African American story, it has universality to it. Danny Glover
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I play drums. And not the kind you're thinking of. I play big African wooden drums.
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Clearly, we cannot allow such a critical part of African history to die, because such a death would mean erasing an important link to our glorious past, Thabo Mbeki
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Clearly, looking at the 2004 presidential election the issue of same-sex marriage resonated with African Americans.
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Clearly it's in my company's best interest to have 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa join the network,
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Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen. Martin O'Malley
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I never made it to Liberia. I was in West Africa with Al Sharpton and members of the Nation of Islam. The rebels had captured the airport in Moravia, and our pilot refused to fly us in. So we met with some of the rebel groups in West Africa. Tucker Carlson
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The Central African Republic is free to close its border, but we regard the decision only as a gesture of courtesy with Chad rather than an objective move.
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The commission, meeting in Botswana last week (October 10 to 14) was examining the security situation in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region with particular emphasis on developments in Angola and the DRC,
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While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice. Harvey Fierstein
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The EU strategy ... will mark a true turning point to help Africa help itself.
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The Habre case is more worrying for African leaders as it is more universal in its implications. They will find it a very difficult decision.
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The herpes virus that I found in the Asian elephants that have died is the same virus that is in African elephants. But it doesn't cause any disease in them,
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(The helicopter) was on the ship not because HMS Cornwall was cooperating in any kind of mercenary activity, but because the West African commander was cooperating with HMS Cornwall in its humanitarian effort, Robin Cook
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The Great Lakes region, and Congo in particular, have the potential to become the motor of African development.
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The information relayed was disturbing to the African American community. These are threats we heard in the early 1960s. For them to be swept under the rug would be an insult to the black community and the state Department of Education.
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The IIC claims that Mr. Sevan received money from African Middle East Petroleum in concert with Fred Nadler, a friend, and a relative by marriage of Mr. (Fakhry) Abdelnour, the principal of AMEP.
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The ideologues are as equally important as the operational people and he was in close contact with very prominent figures with movements in different countries, particularly the North African region.
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The ideological battle and the power struggle between the two blocks plunged a substantial number of African countries into armed civil conflicts. Omar Bongo
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A lot of kids watch football and basketball, and that's fine, ... If they don't see any other African Americans playing golf, then you don't want to do it, either.
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Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda. Kathleen Troia McFarland
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the... Malcolm X
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I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
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All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. Mo Ibrahim
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All of Africa's mammalian domesticates - cattle, sheep, goats, horses, even dogs - entered sub-Saharan Africa from the north, from Eurasia or North Africa. Jared Diamond
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All of Africa must get the most out of this event. Sepp Blatter
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The children of southern Africa need help now - before their tiny emaciated bodies appear on television screens.
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The chief executives of the Australia and South Africa boards and I will come back with recommendations for a change, if any, to the ICC anti-racism policy during the April 30 meeting.
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The Giraffe Savannah is next to the Elephant Savannah, which really gives people a nice landscape of the African plains area.