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« on: April 08, 2009, 16:27:23 PM »
Where ever there is a clash between right and right, a value higher than right ought to prevail, and this value is life itself...

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I Believe It is the duty of a man of courage and one who wishes to be considered fit to govern never to lose sight of of the common good, to find consolation for his private griefs and troubles in the well-being of the state.

Plutarch 46-120 AD
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2009, 16:27:57 PM »

Omni bellum omni(the war of all against all)

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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2009, 16:28:30 PM »

The unit measurement of desire is sacrifice.

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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2009, 20:47:19 PM »
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true Scholar.
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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2009, 20:52:03 PM »
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
 
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2009, 12:28:07 PM »
We are no more tribes than England and Wales are. We are no more tribalised than Switzerland and Britain.  Unity was achieved in those places, It can be attained in Nigeria by Nigerian people themselves.

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« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2009, 12:37:44 PM »
Man is a machine. All his actions, words, thoughts, feelings, opinions and habits are the results of external influences, external impressions … it is possible to stop being a machine, but for that it is necessary first of all to know the machine.

G. I. Gurdjieff (1865 - 1949)
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« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2009, 19:29:56 PM »
“Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.”

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« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2009, 19:32:15 PM »
“Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.”

“African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism”

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« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2009, 19:34:46 PM »
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

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« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2009, 19:21:32 PM »
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2009, 19:24:19 PM »
...the enlightened sovereign approaches d question of war with utmost caution n d good commander warns himself against rash action. This is d way 2 keep the state secure and d army intact.
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« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2009, 20:39:16 PM »
Quote from: Oz on April 14, 2009, 19:24:19 PM
...the enlightened sovereign approaches d question of war with utmost caution n d good commander warns himself against rash action. This is d way 2 keep the state secure and d army intact.



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« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2009, 04:12:27 AM »
freedom is not truely valued until it is lost

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« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2009, 04:16:36 AM »
Our political sagacity is not a garrulous absurdity but it is a symbolic jingoism which helps her humanity

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« Reply #15 on: April 15, 2009, 12:00:41 PM »
There is no difference between commanding a large army and small one. It is a matter of communications, of establishing an efficient system of command signals.

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« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2009, 14:21:40 PM »
It was not a war he sought, or a civic unrest that he initiated. When the people were being massacred and coming back home in droves and he was asked to step up as one of the leaders that we have, to take control, he had no other option than to do what he did.

- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu II, son of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, explaining how his father came to lead the rebellion against Nigeria -
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« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2009, 09:46:30 AM »
From no quarter shall we accept direction, or neo-colonialism, and at no time shall we lower our guard against the subversion of our Government or our people. Neither our principles, our country, nor our freedom to determine our own future are for sale.

Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922 - 1999)
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« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2009, 09:48:44 AM »
The right of a man to stand upright as a human being in his own country comes before questions of the kind of society he will create once he has that right.

Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922 - 1999)
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« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2009, 22:37:35 PM »
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. I never had any formal education -- not even nursery school certificate. But, sometimes I know more than Ph.D.'s because as a military man I know how to act, I am a man of action.

Late Idi Amin Dada, president of Uganda, as quoted in Thomas and Margaret Melady's Idi Amin Dada: Hitler in Africa, Kansas City, 1977.
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