Notable quotes

HOW can you forget when you look at the photo (of the mass grave)? – President Hifikepunye Pohamba in his Cassinga Day address at Okahandja on Monday

WE will continue to walk one path of national reconciliation where enemies must forgive and reconcile. – Swapo Youth League Secretary General Elijah Ngurare at the SPYL Central Committee meeting at SwakopmundEVERYBODY’S history is part of African history because everybody came out of Africa. – Ibrahim of the department of molecular biology at the University of Khartoum, Sudan ALTHOUGH a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand. – Aharon Barak (Born 1936), law professor, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel WORDS may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning. – Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), American statesman, scientist, philosopher, printer, writer and inventorA BAD word whispered will echo a hundred miles. – Chinese proverbFrom the history booksWE run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, ‘You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.’ The human spirit is indomitable. – British athlete Roger Bannister, who ran the first sub-four-minute mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds on May 6 1954