"Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it's overthrow."

-- Walter Rodney

#Responsibility Quotes

“The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a mullah, he was a mullah whose understanding of religion didn't go beyond parroting what he had heard from the next mullah. A mullah without a beard, a mullah in a four-star general's uniform, a mullah with the instincts of a corrupt tax inspector.”
“I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.”
“Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.”
“I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.”
“I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.”
“We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.
“There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.”

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