African Quotes About Politics
30 African sayings about politics — 30 quotes.
- But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.Quote · Kenya
- Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.Quote · Nigeria
- When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.Quote · Kenya
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.Quote · Nigeria
- No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.Quote · South Africa
- A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.Quote · South Africa
- It is easy enough to shout slogans, to sign manifestos, but it is quite a different matter to build, manage, command, spend days and nights seeking the solution to problems.Quote · Congo
- It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.Quote · South Africa
- There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.Quote · South Africa
- Liberia just needs to go through this one political transition and it can really take off. Everything's in place now. We cannot afford to put the country in the hands of someone that lacks the experience.Quote · Liberia
- I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.Quote · South Africa
- I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.Quote · South Africa
- I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.Quote · South Africa
- Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.Quote · South Africa
- During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.Quote · South Africa
- The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.Quote · United States
- Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.Quote · United States
- We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.Quote · South Africa
- Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.Quote · Ethiopia
- They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?.Quote · Cuba
- Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal.Quote · Nigeria
- All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.Quote · Bolivia
- If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.Quote · South Africa
- There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.Quote · South Africa
About these politics sayings
Every saying in the archive filed under politics: 30 quotes. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.
They come from South Africa (14), Nigeria (3), Liberia (3), Kenya (2) and United States (2).
Named writers and speakers on this subject include Nelson Mandela (11), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (3) and Wangari Maathai (2).
A few from this collection:
- No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
- They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?.
- In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Leadership, Peace, Race, Freedom and Hope.
Or see every subject in the archive.