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We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: “Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison.”
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And even in terms of justice, law codes, the legal system. A person who does not know English in Africa is excluded from that system because he can only operate through acts of translation.
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The same questions are there in Native American languages, they’re there in native Canadian languages, they’re there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish.
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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it.
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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So we’re talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people’s lives in history.
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Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing – and that’s the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It’s completely unacceptable.
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Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.
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We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
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