Africans In China

On this page, you will find some of my favorite African quotes and proverb.

—AFRICAN PROVERB

A hyena cannot smell its own stench. ( Umupfu ntiyinukira)
From colonel Muamar Kadhafi

“For 40 years all the summits have failed, our micro-states have no future.”

“Let those who are hesitating [for the creation of a United states of Africa], get out of our way”

- « Si vous ne réalisez pas l’union, des millions d’hommes et de femmes vont vous écraser. »

-« L’Afrique est à vous et ne comptez sur personne pour bâtir votre avenir. »

-”The Libyans said they’ll buy their way out of these three black lists. We’ll pay so much, to hell with $2 billion or more. It’s not compensation. It’s a price. The Americans said it was Libya who did it. It is known that the president was madman Reagan who’s got Alzheimer’s and has lost his mind. He now crawls on all fours.”

From Mandela

-« I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. »

-«If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.. »

-«It always seems impossible until its done. »

-«It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.»

-«When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.»

Bishop Desmond Tutu quotes

-“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
-“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
-“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
-“I don’t preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t say, “Now is that political or social?” He said, “I feed you.” Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.”
-“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”
-“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”
-“Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.”

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda

-”You kept quiet… When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet. ”

-”There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.”

-”We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. ”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A right delayed is a right denied.”

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ”

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brothe”"rhood. ”

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

“I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. ”

“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. ”

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ”

“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. ”

“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ”

Shakespeare

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”

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