A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
CHINUA ACHEBEAs long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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My weapon is literature.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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