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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.

Chinua Achebe

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
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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Oneself Peace People Understand
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
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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Moral Photograph Physical
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
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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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
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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Expression Feeling Story Talk
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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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
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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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
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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Eat People Talk Yourself
When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Attention Comfortable Commitment Grave Risk Run
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
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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Foot Hands Hold Myself Pretend
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself

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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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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