"What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes."

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Source : "Fatou Bensouda: “We Are Not Against Africa”". Interview with Mercy Eze, newafricanmagazine.com. September 11, 2012.

Fatou Bensouda

#Powerful Quotes #People Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.”

Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”
“youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.”
“In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.”
“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.”

Source : Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin
“There isn't a problem on this earth that a doughnut cannot make better.”
“For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.”

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