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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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Find Nation Nom Way Survive Unity World
The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.
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Bible Country Effect Original Raed Translation
We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
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End Politic Power Put Term Think
You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English.
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Another Country Language Many Only Operate Person
I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened – particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over the world feel uncomfortable about that; they want to be in control.
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Always Awake Control Ordinary Particularly People Repressive Think Uncomfortable
I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.
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Country English Language Periostin Power Serious Wonder Work
The same questions are there in Native American languages, they’re there in native Canadian languages, they’re there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish.
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Country Culture Language Phenomenon Power Problem Relationship
What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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English Into Power Quantity Question Translate
Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa’s souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind?
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Away Continent Corner Country Million Soul Wind
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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Christianity Civilisation Committed Country Crime Name Western
Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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Area Like Location Work Writer
We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
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Appreciate Being Language Other Question Uncomfortable Way
If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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Buy Cent Poverty Sold Three Today
How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go?
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Birder Continent Country Hand Need Outside Outstretched Over Size Time Wealth
How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?
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Arrive Away Best Broken Future Known Leader Price
What’s good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.
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Another Fiction Good Novel People Problem Problem Region Similar Writing

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