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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Chinua Achebe

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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Children Family Man Sex Tribe Woman World
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
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
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon

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