Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth David Kaunda, also known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth28 April 1924
CityChinsali, Zambia
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Some people draw a comforting distinction between ''force'' and ''violence.'' I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.
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Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars is the annual aggregate income of African Americans. That economic potential needs to be harnessed for Africa's development and to create expanded economic opportunities for African people worldwide.
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I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.
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It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle.
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I think something very serious will happen if they took him under detention,
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There are (numerous) reasons why African leaders need to be more strategic in cultivating a relationship with the diaspora.
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I found this very disturbing, Let your challenger stand. You are popular but that is not the reason for my saying these issues. Principles are principles. They are never divided. Please to my young comrade Yoweri Museveni, let those who want to challenge you do so.
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I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.
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War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.
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The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.
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Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.
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Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.
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My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.
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The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.