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"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
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"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."
"Phew. I thought I was going to have to slay a few dragons for you while I was here. 'I'm no damsel in distress, Your Highness. I can take care of myself."
"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"
"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
"Don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own."
"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."
"I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own."
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"Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins."
"Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change."
"We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done."
"The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality."
"In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy."
"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go."
"We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races."
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