KemetLeads“We, the people of Tanganyika, would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro which would shine beyond our borders giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate and dignity where before there was only humiliation.”
Julius Nyerere Tanzania♥ 0
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.”
Amílcar Cabral Guinea-Bissau & Cabo Verde♥ 0
“If yesterday I fought as an enemy, today you have become a friend and ally with the same national interest, loyalty, rights and duties as myself.”
Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe♥ 0
“How can a proud and brave people like the Asante sit back and look while white men took away their king and chiefs, and humiliated them with a demand for the Golden Stool.”
Yaa Asantewaa Ghana♥ 0
“Africa should have one identity, one nationality, one people, one currency, one army.”
Muammar Gaddafi Libya♥ 0
“The decisions taken by the conference will be applied in order and in freely accepted discipline. This is not defeatism, it is not capitulation, it is a question of national responsibility.”
Mathieu Kérékou Benin♥ 0
“Indeed, an illiterate man cannot be truly free; he is a slave to other people's thought and understanding.”
Jomo Kenyatta Kenya♥ 0
“So let us all agree to die a little, or even completely, so that the peoples still under colonial domination may be freed and African unity may not be a vain word.”
Ahmed Ben Bella Algeria♥ 0
“The choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to a people's definition of themselves in relation to their natural and social environment, indeed in relation to the entire universe.”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Kenya♥ 0
“The source of national unity is the common suffering during the last 50 years spent under Portuguese rule. … In Mozambique, it was colonial domination which produced the territorial community and created the basis for a psychological coherence.”
Eduardo Mondlane Mozambique♥ 0
“…that which unites us is far, far more powerful and enduring than that which divides us.”
Cyril Ramaphosa South Africa♥ 0
“I am the happiest man in the world to be the first human to run under two hours and I can tell people that no human is limited.”
Eliud Kipchoge Kenya♥ 0
“I remember my sister was also born at home because there is no hospital in our village. It was a really, really sad situation for everyone. I wanted to build one to give people hope.”
Sadio Mané Senegal♥ 0
“God created me, lifted me out of the dust, and restored this empire to my rule. He endowed me with power, and enabled me to stand in the place of my fathers.”
Tewodros II Ethiopia♥ 0
“I entreat peace from you — you have shown your power — you have chastised — let it be enough, I pray you; and let me be no longer considered an enemy to the Queen.”
Moshoeshoe I Lesotho♥ 0
“We stand at a fork in the crossroad of history, with one path leading to squabbling and a disunited group of tribes, and the other to a tolerant and united nation.”
Nnamdi Azikiwe Nigeria♥ 0
“Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression.”
Obafemi Awolowo Nigeria♥ 0
“The foreign policy of the People's Republic of Angola, based on the principles of total independence always followed by the MPLA, will be one of non-alignment.”
Agostinho Neto Angola♥ 0
“A people united, striving to achieve a common good for all members of society, will always emerge victorious.”
Sam Nujoma Namibia♥ 0
“The hardest lesson in my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.”
Joshua Nkomo Zimbabwe♥ 0
“It's determination. It is knowing that nobody will do it if you don't. It's knowing that if the people have chosen you to work for them, then you are their slave. So you must do their work.”
Albertina Sisulu South Africa♥ 0
“A nation without a past is a lost nation, and a people without a past is a people without a soul.”
Seretse Khama Botswana♥ 0
“But the winner and the loser are all Barundi, members of the same national family, children of one Mwami.”
Prince Louis Rwagasore Burundi♥ 0
“I belong to a generation of writers who break down barriers and refuse the compartmentalisation of the imagination.”
Alain Mabanckou Republic of the Congo♥ 0
“My heart is filled with pride as I contemplate my nation reconciled, its memory rebuilt and its history freed of its resentments.”
Hassan Gouled Aptidon Djibouti♥ 0
“I have assumed supreme power in the Kingdom of Swaziland and … all Legislative, Executive and Judicial power is vested in myself.”
King Sobhuza II Eswatini♥ 0
“The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon says out loud what the majority, the vast majority of Cameroonians say under their breath.”
Ruben Um Nyobè Cameroon♥ 0
“Those who deny people their rights commit an injustice.”
Ibn Khaldun Tunisia♥ 0
“Our predecessors taught us one thing: the slave who is not capable of assuming his own revolt does not deserve to be pitied.”
Ibrahim Traoré Burkina Faso♥ 0
“We must work together as a united people with one heart and one mind.”
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah Namibia♥ 0
“He has given me strength and power; He has granted me a great name through His Son, in whom I have believed; and He has made me the guide of all my kingdom, because of my faith in Christ.”
Ezana of Aksum Ethiopia♥ 0
“I felt it was my duty to liberate my people from colonialism.”
France-Albert René Seychelles♥ 0
“We can once again become a great nation that is voluntarily united in diversity rather than divided by diversity.”
John Garang South Sudan♥ 0
“If we are separated from one another by shades of political opinion, one common denominator unites us all: the love we bear for this country, for its people and for the happy development of our territory.”
Hamani Diori Niger♥ 0
“Every time I sing I feel I am walking into a fearsome examination, and that the listeners are those examiners who show no mercy, make no allowances, and grant no resit to those who fail.”
Umm Kulthum Egypt♥ 0
“Today's real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated.”
Kofi Annan Ghana♥ 0
“We need to build stronger human and institutional capacity in African nations to help people feed themselves.”
Gebisa Ejeta Ethiopia♥ 0
“While the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of Member States should continue to be observed, it should, however, not be construed to mean or used to justify indifference on the part of the OAU.”
Salim Ahmed Salim Tanzania♥ 0
“We must pursue relentlessly the objective of establishing a new national and regional economic order in Africa based on an increasing measure of national and collective self-reliance.”
Adebayo Adedeji Nigeria♥ 0
“In my respectful dissenting opinion the dispute between the State of Israel and the people of Palestine is essentially and historically a political one.”
Julia Sebutinde Uganda♥ 0
“The only moment when people would stop fighting and receiving orders from the warlords was when it was raining or when they were playing football.”
Fatma Samoura Senegal♥ 0
“We are threatened with extinction. People are dying in chillingly high numbers. It is a crisis of the first magnitude.”
Festus Mogae Botswana♥ 0
“I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.”
Joyce Banda Malawi♥ 0
“I decided to give back the responsibility and announce my resignation as prime minister, and give a chance to another man or woman of this noble country.”
Abdalla Hamdok Sudan♥ 0
“An organisation that is independent, and the guardian of our freedom and our sovereignty, cannot be built on other people's money.”
Moussa Faki Mahamat Chad♥ 0
“The African Union and its institutions remain, unfortunately, almost silent and won over to this apartheid system planted in West Africa — the Mauritanian system, which makes the oppression of people of African descent, slavery and anti-Black racism into a system of government.”
Biram Dah Abeid Mauritania♥ 0
“We used our pain, broken bodies and scarred emotions to confront the injustices and terror of our nation.”
Leymah Gbowee Liberia♥ 0
“Our contributions to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis were one small but important step in the larger social challenge of gender-power dynamics.”
Quarraisha Abdool Karim South Africa♥ 0
“A better world is not built by a handful of people who are going to decide for the rest of the world.”
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Chad♥ 0
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X United States♥ 0
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass United States♥ 0
“I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.”
Sojourner Truth United States♥ 0
“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”
Ida B. Wells United States♥ 0
“Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble.”
John Lewis United States♥ 0
“We been saying freedom for six years and we ain't got nothin'. What we gonna start saying now is Black Power!”
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) United States♥ 0
“There is an urgent need for dedicated and courageous leadership… This is no time for faint-hearted men…”
Medgar Evers United States♥ 0
“It is my sincere conviction that the power of love in the world is the greatest power existing. If you have a greater power, my friend, you may move me.”
Bayard Rustin United States♥ 0
“The Student Leadership Conference made it crystal clear that current sit-ins and other demonstrations are concerned with something much bigger than a hamburger or even a giant-sized Coke.”
Ella Baker United States♥ 0
“…this line of education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom to our people.”
George Washington Carver United States♥ 0
“Not a sign from anybody in my industry, which of course is a white dominated sport. I'm one of the only people of colour there, yet I stand alone.”
Lewis Hamilton United Kingdom♥ 0
“After 214 years we have a government of the people, the government of the nobodies of Colombia.”
Francia Márquez Colombia♥ 0
“If white-to-Black discrimination exists, so does Black-to-Black. There is something we need to know: who we are.”
Victoria Santa Cruz Peru♥ 0
“For a long while, my intention, my dearest ambition, has been to secure for the nation which has confided to me its destiny the benefit of public instruction.”
Henri Christophe Haiti♥ 0
“Rich in natural treasures, in gold and bauxite, in rubber, sugar, banana and coffee... poor in people, poorer in humanity.”
Anton de Kom Netherlands / Suriname♥ 0
“A people's art is the genesis of their freedom.”
Claudia Jones United Kingdom / Trinidad and Tobago♥ 0
“We put the words on it, and we speak of selfishness for those who imagine that an institution of the Republic could be reserved for one category of citizens.”
Christiane Taubira France / French Guiana♥ 0
“I make this request only so as not to lead men to the slaughterhouse. They have to be taught their right hand from their left.”
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges France / Guadeloupe♥ 0
“African Unity is, above all, a political kingdom which can only be gained by political means.”
Kwame Nkrumah Ghana♥ 0
“I make no claim to lay out any doctrines here. I am neither a messiah nor a prophet. I possess no truths.”
Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso♥ 0
“It is never shameful to be poor and to try to borrow to build my country… The shame is to suck the blood of peoples and suck away their rights.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser Egypt♥ 0
“Parliament is a misrepresentation of the people, and parliamentary systems are a false solution to the problem of democracy.”
Muammar Gaddafi Libya♥ 0
“Now my heart turns to and fro, in thinking what will the people say, they who shall see my monument in after years, and shall speak of what I have done.”
Hatshepsut Egypt♥ 0
“He left me to deputize for him and embarked on the Atlantic Ocean with his men. That was the last we saw of him and all those who were with him, and so I became king in my own right.”
Mansa Musa Mali♥ 0
“This oath, thus taken before my father, I have so strictly kept even to this day, that no man ought to doubt but that I shall be of the same mind for the rest of my life.”
Hannibal Barca Tunisia♥ 0
“The foundation of everything is unity. … we chose to think beyond the horizon of tragedy, and become a people with a future.”
Paul Kagame Rwanda♥ 0
“The constitution contained in the Bill before us is the product of negotiation and compromise. Yet the central tenets of a democratic, just and equitable society remain uncompromised, because freedom is non-negotiable.”
Cyril Ramaphosa South Africa♥ 0
“Even when we don't have enough jobs to give, we must still train people. Skills are assets — whether they are used here or abroad.”
Aliko Dangote Nigeria♥ 0
“The fuel subsidy is gone.”
Bola Tinubu Nigeria♥ 0
“Today, we all wear the jersey of Liberia, and the victory belongs to the people, to peace, and to democracy.”
George Weah Liberia♥ 0
“The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular, is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power.”
Yoweri Museveni Uganda♥ 0
“Imperator, hand over thy fishing-rod to the fishermen of Pharos and Canopus; thy sport is the hunting of cities, realms, and continents.”
Cleopatra VII Egypt♥ 0
“They are seldom unjust, and have a greater abhorrence of injustice than any other people… There is complete security in their country. Neither traveller nor inhabitant in it has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence.”
Ibn Battuta Morocco♥ 0
“We African heads of state must stop behaving like puppets who dance every time the imperialists pull the strings.”
Ibrahim Traoré Burkina Faso♥ 0
“The Zairean experience is based on a political philosophy that we call authenticity. This is an awareness on the part of the people of Zaire that they should return to their beginnings and search for the values of their ancestors.”
Mobutu Sese Seko DR Congo♥ 0
“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decisionmaking.”
Thurgood Marshall United States♥ 0
“Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.”
Barack Obama United States♥ 0
“Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community.”
John Lewis United States♥ 0
“Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.”
Jesse Jackson United States♥ 0
“While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last, because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”
Kamala Harris United States♥ 0
“Africa is the cornerstone to the realisation of people's unity.”
Bob Marley Jamaica♥ 0
“I've just proven to the world that you can do it clean, with hard work and determination.”
Usain Bolt Jamaica♥ 0
“The man of genius does not steal; he conquers.”
Alexandre Dumas France♥ 0
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
James Baldwin United States♥ 0
“If you do your best, nobody can ask you to do it over again.”
Katherine Johnson United States♥ 0
“The slave who is not able to take charge of his own revolt deserves no pity for his lot.”
Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso♥ 0
“The party is a contemporary form of dictatorship. It is the modern instrument of dictatorial government.”
Muammar Gaddafi Libya♥ 0
“I have done this with a loving heart for my father Amun… It was he who led me, I did not plan a work without his doing.”
Hatshepsut Egypt♥ 0
“We belong to a house which hands on the kingship by inheritance.”
Mansa Musa Mali♥ 0
“Our people will never — and I mean never — be left for dead again.”
Paul Kagame Rwanda♥ 0
“We have a Constitution we can be proud of, now let's make it work.”
Cyril Ramaphosa South Africa♥ 0
“Almighty God did not create a weak brain for a woman and a highly capable brain for a man.”
Samia Suluhu Hassan Tanzania♥ 0
“We are too great a nation and too grounded as a people to rob ourselves of our finest destiny.”
Bola Tinubu Nigeria♥ 0
“No one should think that what is happening today is a mere change of guard: it is a fundamental change in the politics of our country.”
Yoweri Museveni Uganda♥ 0
“Only the disciplined ones are free in life. If you aren't disciplined, you are a slave to your moods.”
Eliud Kipchoge Kenya♥ 0
“Seeing both leaders side by side for the national anthems was very special. I felt then that the Ivory Coast was born again.”
Didier Drogba Côte d'Ivoire♥ 0
“All lives are sacred and must be protected. … I am calling on world leaders to come together and prevent the slaughter of innocent souls. Humanity must prevail.”
Mohamed Salah Egypt♥ 0
“You have to face reality bravely as I have done. There can never be any solution to a problem by evading it or turning a deaf ear to it.”
Anwar Sadat Egypt♥ 0
“My generation cannot understand how Africa, with so much wealth beneath our soil, with a generous nature, water and sunshine in abundance, is today the poorest continent.”
Ibrahim Traoré Burkina Faso♥ 0
“A return to authenticity is not narrow nationalism, a blind return to the past. On the contrary, it is a useful instrument for peace among nations, a condition for existence among peoples.”
Mobutu Sese Seko DR Congo♥ 0
“The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed.”
Frederick Douglass United States♥ 0
“But I was free, and they should be free. I would make a home in the North and bring them there, God helping me.”
Harriet Tubman United States♥ 0
“We must start from the simple premise that Africa's future is up to Africans.”
Barack Obama United States♥ 0
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs…?”
Muhammad Ali United States♥ 0
“The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.”
John Lewis United States♥ 0
“Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we're all precious in God's sight.”
Jesse Jackson United States♥ 0
“Dream with ambition, lead with conviction, and see yourselves in a way that others may not, simply because they've never seen it before.”
Kamala Harris United States♥ 0
“…when we say “All Power to the People,” we mean to convey a sense of deep respect and love for the people, and the idea that the people deserve complete truth and honesty.”
Huey P. Newton United States♥ 0
“Great men have done great things here and will again and we can make America what America must become.”
James Baldwin United States♥ 0
“My work is that of conservation, the saving of things that the average person throws away.”
George Washington Carver United States♥ 0
“With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us.”
Michelle Obama United States♥ 0
“We encourage aid that helps us do without aid. But in general, the policy of assistance and aid has only disorganized us, enslaved us, and made us shirk our responsibilities.”
Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso♥ 0
“Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others. The true leader is of a different sort.”
Haile Selassie Ethiopia♥ 0
“Democracy is never mob-rule. It is and should remain disciplined rule requiring compliance with the law and social rules.”
Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe♥ 0
“I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently? Would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in our place?”
Miriam Makeba South Africa♥ 0
“My mouth is effective in its speech; I do not go back on my word.”
Hatshepsut Egypt♥ 0
“I came for the Pilgrimage and nothing else. I do not wish to mix anything else with my Pilgrimage.”
Mansa Musa Mali♥ 0
“Gisco, another thing has escaped your notice which is more amazing still… in all this multitude there is no one who is called Gisco.”
Hannibal Barca Tunisia♥ 0
“The Rwandan story shows how much power human beings have within them. Whatever power you do have, you might as well use it to tell the truth and do what is right.”
Paul Kagame Rwanda♥ 0
“Now is the time to lend a hand. Now is the time for each of us to say 'send me'.”
Cyril Ramaphosa South Africa♥ 0
“What is the best project for our Cameroon? That is what this is about, not personal interests.”
Samuel Eto'o Cameroon♥ 0
“The foundation of the New Liberia must be reinforced by the steel of integrity.”
George Weah Liberia♥ 0
“The sovereign power in the land must be the population, not the government. The government should not be the master, but the servant of the people.”
Yoweri Museveni Uganda♥ 0
“I think I fulfilled the legacy by winning the marathon for the second time. That's my total happiness, my inspiration for the next generation.”
Eliud Kipchoge Kenya♥ 0
“You have two choices: to tell the people that they are right to put you on the bench, or to prove them wrong. I needed to prove them wrong.”
Mohamed Salah Egypt♥ 0
“I've always said it's really important to give back and I try my best to give back what my people have given me.”
Sadio Mané Senegal♥ 0
“Any peace not built on justice and on the recognition of the rights of the peoples, would be a structure of sand which would crumble under the first blow.”
Anwar Sadat Egypt♥ 0
“I was at a crossroads, to do what I really want to do or do what people were telling me to do… I decided I don't care what people think.”
Tems Nigeria♥ 0
“A people that never abdicates, that never gives up, that stands up to adversity.”
Ibrahim Traoré Burkina Faso♥ 0
“Did you not know it in your hearts: I am your rampart of iron!”
Ramesses II Egypt♥ 0
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King Jr. United States♥ 0
“Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.”
Malcolm X United States♥ 0
“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.”
Marcus Garvey United States♥ 0
“In light of the sorry history of discrimination and its devastating impact on the lives of Negroes, bringing the Negro into the mainstream of American life should be a state interest of the highest order.”
Thurgood Marshall United States♥ 0
“Nobody should be president for life. And your country is better off if you have new blood and new ideas.”
Barack Obama United States♥ 0
“Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace.”
Pelé Brazil♥ 0
“To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. … It's a message to everybody — politicians, the kids I grew up with, ordinary French people — about what can be done.”
Zinedine Zidane France / Algeria♥ 0
“I hope you will catch the inspiration, grasp the opportunity to do something.”
Madam C. J. Walker United States♥ 0
“I respectfully remind you sir, that we have been the most patient of all people.”
Jackie Robinson United States♥ 0
“The key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go.”
Oprah Winfrey United States♥ 0
“Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.”
Katherine Johnson United States♥ 0
“Being president doesn't change who you are — it reveals who you are.”
Michelle Obama United States♥ 0
“'Seek ye first the political kingdom' became the principal slogan of the Convention People's Party, for without political independence none of our plans for social and economic development could be put into effect.”
Kwame Nkrumah Ghana♥ 0
“Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord there is not on this earth any nation that is superior to any other… God and history will remember your judgment.”
Haile Selassie Ethiopia♥ 0
“The Preamble says that all nations, small or large, are equal. Are we equal when it comes to the permanent seats? No, we are not equal.”
Muammar Gaddafi Libya♥ 0
“Hear ye, all persons! ye people as many as ye are! I have done this according to the design of my heart.”
Hatshepsut Egypt♥ 0
“Years and a chequered experience of good and evil fortune have so disillusioned me that I prefer to take reason rather than Fortune as my guide.”
Hannibal Barca Tunisia♥ 0
“No community is beyond repair, and the dignity of a people is never fully extinguished.”
Paul Kagame Rwanda♥ 0
“Immediate, swift and extraordinary action is required if we are to prevent a human catastrophe of enormous proportions in our country.”
Cyril Ramaphosa South Africa♥ 0
“As the first female President in the history of my country, the burden of expectation to deliver gender equality is heavier on my shoulder.”
Samia Suluhu Hassan Tanzania♥ 0
“We must let the people decide, and then we must respect their decision. That is indeed the true essence of democracy.”
George Weah Liberia♥ 0
“Hail, master — for Heaven has granted you the mastery and taken it from me.”
Cleopatra VII Egypt♥ 0
“It's about breaking free from any societal pressure, any chain. It's about not being afraid to be yourself and just living your life regardless of what people say.”
Tems Nigeria♥ 0
“The Eldorado our peoples dream of, we can build it here, and we have faith in this people.”
Ibrahim Traoré Burkina Faso♥ 0
“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”
Martin Luther King Jr. United States♥ 0
“We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level — to the level of human rights.”
Malcolm X United States♥ 0
“…those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
Booker T. Washington United States♥ 0
“I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.”
Marcus Garvey United States♥ 0
“My mother taught me that service to others gives life purpose and meaning.”
Kamala Harris United States♥ 0
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
Colin Powell United States♥ 0
“I apologise to the millions of children who saw this act, and to the educators who teach what should and should not be done.”
Zinedine Zidane France / Algeria♥ 0
“You are moving in the direction of freedom and the function of freedom is to free somebody else.”
Toni Morrison United States♥ 0
“Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.”
Oprah Winfrey United States♥ 0
“That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned… the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion.”
Haile Selassie Ethiopia♥ 0
“I said, and I still say, that I bear the whole responsibility.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser Egypt♥ 0
“My appeal is ultimately directed to us all, black and white together, to close the chapter on our past and to strive together for this beautiful and blessed land as the rainbow people of God.”
Desmond Tutu South Africa♥ 0
“Only God, who appointed me, will remove me – not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!”
Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe♥ 0
“Colonization should be punished. The countries that harmed other peoples during the colonial era should pay compensation for the damage and suffering inflicted under their colonial rule.”
Muammar Gaddafi Libya♥ 0
“I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.”
Miriam Makeba South Africa♥ 0
“Never was brought the like of this for any king who has been since the beginning.”
Hatshepsut Egypt♥ 0
“Peace once established is a better and safer thing than hoping for victory; that is in your hands, this in the hands of the gods.”
Hannibal Barca Tunisia♥ 0
“Our job is to make sure that every generation in Africa, enjoys a better life than the previous one.”
Paul Kagame Rwanda♥ 0
“We owe this noble mission our courage. We must be brave and we must be bold.”
Cyril Ramaphosa South Africa♥ 0
“My dear Nigerians, especially our youth, I have heard you loud and clear. I understand the pain and frustration that drive these protests…”
Bola Tinubu Nigeria♥ 0
“Tonight, the CDC has lost the election, but Liberia has won. This is a time for graciousness in defeat, a time to place our country above party.”
George Weah Liberia♥ 0
“I am not a servant of anybody. I am a freedom fighter; that is why I do what I do. … If anybody thinks you gave me a job, he is deceiving himself.”
Yoweri Museveni Uganda♥ 0
“I have benefited first-hand from the power of sports to lead a healthy life and I am committed to working with WHO to share such gains worldwide.”
Didier Drogba Côte d'Ivoire♥ 0
“For a moment I entertained the idea of spending the rest of my life in the service of this Shaykh, but my spirit, tenacious of its purpose, dissuaded me.”
Ibn Battuta Morocco♥ 0
“We invite all other Africans, all these oppressed peoples, to unite in order to face adversity.”
Ibrahim Traoré Burkina Faso♥ 0
“King of Kings am I, Osymandyas. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works.”
Ramesses II Egypt♥ 0
“What becomes of the leader in all this? I announce that I am today taking leave of the Popular Movement of the Revolution, so that it may choose a new leader… Understand my emotion.”
Mobutu Sese Seko DR Congo♥ 0
“Selma shows us that America is not the project of any one person. Because the single-most powerful word in our democracy is the word “We.””
Barack Obama United States♥ 0
“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”
Colin Powell United States♥ 0
“We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self.”
Huey P. Newton United States♥ 0
“There is no demiurge, no illustrious man taking responsibility for everything, but … the demiurge is the people and the magic lies in their hands and their hands alone.”
Frantz Fanon Martinique / Algeria♥ 0
“I am far from all those ideas, from this Front National. … Extremes are never good.”
Zinedine Zidane France / Algeria♥ 0
“We face neither East nor West: we face forward.”
Kwame Nkrumah Ghana♥ 0
“There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see… a society where half the people are held in silence.”
Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso♥ 0
“I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.”
Frederick Douglass United States♥ 0
“The legal system can force open doors and sometimes even knock down walls. But it cannot build bridges. That job belongs to you and me.”
Thurgood Marshall United States♥ 0
“I'm asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change — but in yours.”
Barack Obama United States♥ 0
“You have power, and don't you ever listen when anyone tells you something is impossible because it has never been done before.”
Kamala Harris United States♥ 0
“We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black community.”
Huey P. Newton United States♥ 0
“I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.”
Katherine Johnson United States♥ 0
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