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Letter "A" » African
«Last May, in Addis Ababa there was convened a meeting of Heads of African States and Governments. In three days, the thirty-two nations represented at that Conference demonstrated to the world that when the will and the determination exist, nations and peoples of diverse backgrounds can and will work together in unity for the achievement of common goals and the assurance of that equality and brotherhood which we desire.»
Author: Haile Selassie
(
Emperor,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
Ababa,
Addis,
Addis Ababa,
African,
backgrounds,
brotherhood,
conference,
demonstrated,
diverse,
heads of state,
head of state,
peoples,
represented,
Thirty two,
unity
«I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.»
Author: Howard Stern
(
Disc jockey)
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About:
Religion
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Keywords:
African,
Africans,
divided,
hat,
large white,
paraded,
parading,
pope,
praying,
purse,
sicken,
sickened,
sickening,
sickens,
smoking,
the pope
«African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism»
«I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.»
Author: Miriam Makeba
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About:
Racism,
Spirit
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Keywords:
African,
cope,
cope with,
endowed,
native,
racism,
South,
South African,
South Africans,
The Weight
«Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.»
«Genius is an African who dreams up snow»
«AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way.»
«It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.»
«During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons li»
«I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(
Statesman)
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About:
Discrimination,
Life,
Opinions,
Racism
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Keywords:
African,
assurance,
at ease,
detest,
discrimination,
entitled,
fellow feeling,
hold in,
inferior,
intensely,
manifestations,
racial,
racial discrimination,
set up,
South,
South African,
South Africans,
surrounds,
violently,
white man