668 Quotes About African
- Author Neil MacGregor
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Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.
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- Author Nelson Mandela
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The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.
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- Author Nelson Mandela
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It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi
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- Author Nelson Mandela
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
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- Author Nelson Mandela
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From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.
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- Author Paul Melvin
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There was this whole separate league of African American players.
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- Author Richie McCaw
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After a game, no matter what the score is, you come off the ground from playing an African team feeling sore. You feel like you've been in a real physical battle but some days against the Australian teams it's not like that.
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- Author Stephen Marley
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My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life' is a tribute to roots reggae music. The fruit is what blossoms into different colors and shades, but the root has to stand predominant.
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- Author Susan Morris
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There's a real connection between the misrepresentation of African Americans in popular culture and the violence that has been lodged against them, both physical and economic.
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