"Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves."

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Source : "INTERVIEW: I cried when I saw Fela! On Broadway - Femi Kuti". Interview with Sam Umukoro, www.premiumtimesng.com. June 17, 2013.

Femi Kuti

#Country Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Vote Quotes

“In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”
“Acting kind of chose me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.”
“Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.”
“I think the best conversation to have been able to eavesdrop on was the one the minute after it was called that Trump would be the next president of the Unites States. Because by all indications, it does not seem anybody thought they were going to win. That is the moment I wish I could have been a fly on the wall. Or, like, in the microwave, whatever.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Ideas are information taking shape.”
“Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does”
“I like to say I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I'm a Christ-o-crat.”

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