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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Chinua Achebe

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
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
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See 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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Oneself Peace People Understand
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
It 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.
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Direction Neighbor People Story
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
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
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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Discover Finding Fulfill Generation Mission Need
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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Clear Fools Himself Man Peace Togetherness White Winning

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