668 Quotes About African


  • Author Anna Deavere Smith
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    To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

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  • Author Barbara Stocking
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    Today's announcement will make a real difference to millions of poor people. On the ground it will mean thousands of people get treatment for the first time in their lives. Zambia will need continued support to recruit new staff but this is a massive leap in the right direction. We now need other African countries to follow suit.

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  • Author Bernie Sanders
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    The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.

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  • Author Carolyn See
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    Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.

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  • Author Cass Sunstein
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    Why should we be governed by people long dead? ... In any case, the group that ratified the Constitution included just a small subset of the society; it excluded all women, the vast majority of African Americans, many of those without property, and numerous others who were not permitted to vote.

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  • Author Christian Scott
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    Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

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  • Author Cindy Sheehan
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    I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.

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  • Author Daniel Stewart
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    ACOTA's purpose is to increase the capacity of African nations to participate in multinational peace support operations.

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