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"349 Race Quotes

South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

African Bondage Exactly Expect
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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong

Because Color Does Hating
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Barbaric Because Black Detest
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To move forward as a continent, as Africans, we need to teach people to question things.

Move forward Continent Teach people Question things
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The African culture is built on stories

Culture Built On stories
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Bite Bitten Dogs Get
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

About Continuing Fury Germany
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Black is killing Black in Africa and Asking For foreign Aid,Where as the only Solution is Love.

Black Africa Foreign Love
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The problem of Africa is we believe in people's report and names but in the context of global development, names and titles have no meaning or merit. What is important is what you DO in order to grow rapidly.

Africa Development Grow Merit
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Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

Because Big Bury Change
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I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

Am Behind Chair Children
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More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

Accepted Against Any Away
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It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

Men He Man Brushe Tools
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All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
Capability Humans Want Human
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Am Designer Either European
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
Always Looks Means Modern
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Become Becomes Birth Bone
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Almost Artist Chaos Confusion
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We cannot develop as a continent if we continue to depend on hand-outs. Our under-development is tied to our inability to develop foresight and to adapt quickly.

Develop Continent Hand-outs Foresight
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Robert Mugabe will be remembered, above all, for his immense contribution to the liberation of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa from imperialism, colonialism and racist rule. His dedication to the cause of Pan-Africanism is fully acknowledged.

Robert Mugabe Africa Imperialism Colonialism
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Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.
Never again Ghanaians Dubious Live
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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

About Because Been Hard
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When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

Any Basic Basic Human Rights Citizenship
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I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

Actually Again Been Broadcasting
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And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Africa Progress Continent Recognize
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It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
Great day White people Black Latinos
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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

About black White Many people Mixed backgrounds
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It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Associate Deeper Human Human Nature
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

Africa Rapid Progress Continent
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With the kinds of progress we’re seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

Progress Africa Kinds Gets better
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We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of good governance, respect for human rights, rule of law.

Africa Dividend Democracy Economic
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Happily, there’s a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We’re seeing a lot of – actually in Africa – we’re seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

Happily Brain Africa Ghana
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It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.

Because Beliefs Christian Colors
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Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
Ignoring Luxury Men Only
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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Belonging Ever Live Others
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Religion and tribalism are the first two to arrive at the meeting when Nigerians gather. There is nothing more divisive than them. Imagine both in one room and To make matters worse, they both want to chair the meeting. Chaos!

Religion Tribalism Nigerian Divisive
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

Avoid Tribalism Divided Among ourselves
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When you don’t like yourself as an African, you can never like another Africa brother or sister.

When you Like yourself Never Brother
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African people, let’s heal each other, not kill each other.

People Heal Kill
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I don’t care about the skin color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That’s just the bottom line of the truth.
Skin color Human being Bleed red
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It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Lifelong Quiet Race Steady
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It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

Oppressed Enslaved Wished Lighter
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Being an indigenous talent of the African race;

Being Indigenous talent Race
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Back Character Conditions Defined
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

America Automobile Begins Chain
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What is important is the victory of the people, not of a candidate. We must unite for the good of Madagascar’s people, and we are going to succeed.

Victory Candidate Madagascar Succeed
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

After Another Face Find
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Andy Better Even Imagine
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Animal Being Gregarious Human
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