If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe 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.’
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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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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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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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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