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Africa
«When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| About:
Conquest,
Missionaries,
Religion
| Keywords:
Africa, bible, came, closed, land, missionaries, opened, Open Your Eyes, pray, The Bible, The Land
«Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| About:
Labor
| Keywords:
abundant, Africa, buttress, buttresses, buttressing, invest, South, South Africa, systems, vicious
«The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton. (on why he left England for South Africa)»
«The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa, the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York»
Author: Frank Dane
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
Africa, consciences, dedicated, prostitutes, raising, The United Nations, United Nations, uplift, uplifting, uplifts
«The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.»
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil-Rights Leader, Scholar, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
Africa, civil war, color line, islands, Islands of the, lighter, lighters, phase, races, race problem, The Civil War, The Problem of the, twentieth, twentieth century
«The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defense of our people, our»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
Africa, by all means, fight back, no hit, South, South Africa, submit, To South
«ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast of Africa. The Zanzibaris, a warlike people, are best known in this country through a threatening diplomatic incident that occurred a few years ago. The American consul at the capital occupied a dwelling that faced the sea, with a sandy beach between. Greatly to the scandal of this official's family, and against repeated remonstrances of the official himself, the people of the city persisted in using the beach for bathing. One day a woman came down to the edge of the water and was stooping to remove her attire (a pair of sandals) when the consul, incensed beyond restraint, fired a charge of bird-shot into the most conspicuous part of her person. Unfortunately for the existing _entente cordiale_ between two great nations, she was the Sultana.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Africa, attire, attired, bathing, beach, best-known, beyond the sea, bird shot, City on Fire, coast, conspicuous, consul, dwelling, eastern, fired, incensed, incident, inhabitant, occupied, occurred, official, pair, pair off, persisted, repeated, restraint, sandal, sandals, sandy, scandal, stooping, sultana, sultanate, the capital, warlike, Zanzibar