"I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon."

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Source : Quoted in Basil Davidson, Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society (1978)

Tewodros II

#Games Quotes #Ambassadors Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.”
“Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.”
“How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.”
“Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.”
“Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!”
“To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.”

Source : What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.
“At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.”
“The soft bigotry of low expectations”

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