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"I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level."
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"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."
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"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."
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"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."
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"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
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"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
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"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."
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"All children have creative power."
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"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."
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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."
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"It is always the village women who drive these things."
Woman
"I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front."
World
"I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost."
Now
"But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough."
Want
"Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men."
Man
"I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel."
Travel
"It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa."
Hope
"The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease."
Gender
"The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground."
Nation
"All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core."
Time
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