While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
CHINUA ACHEBEIt is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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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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No man however great is greater than his people.
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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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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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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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