Noteable Quotes

 

IF you want to win elections, you must be fair to the poor. – Bishop Zephania Kameeta of the ELCRN, President of the Council of Churches in Namibia, calling for the implementation of the BIG (Basic Income Grant)

PEOPLE demand a TV, not a toilet, because it is not aspirational or charismatic. – Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organisation, who does not hesitate to talk in graphic detail about the dangers of poor sanitation

ONE of the guards would come and feed you and push the whole burger into your mouth and then you had to swallow. – South African mercenary, Niek du Toit, recently released from a prison in Equatorial Guinea where he was arrested in 2004  for plotting to overthrow that country’s leader President Teodoro Obiang Nguema,

ENCOURAGE people to lead and politicians to follow. – South Africa’s Evita Bezuidenhout (Pieter Dirk Uys) when asked about the one thing he would change about the world if he could choose

ARE you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. – Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931), was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer.

THE ballot is stronger than the bullet. – Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865), was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865

From the history books
YOUTH is a religion from which one always ends up being converted. – Andre Malraux, French writer, adventurer, orator and revolutionary who became General Charles de Gaulle’s long-serving culture minister. He died on November 23, 1976

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