Niger Quotes

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  • I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

    Party   Years   Tea  
  • Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.

    "Niger Innis On Obamanomics And The Black Community". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2011.
  • GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.

    Oil   Years   Giving  
  • Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.

    Sight   Air   Sea  
    Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.54, Vintage
  • Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

    Gun   Keys   America  
  • When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  • The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

  • The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a resonable paragraph, at any rate. There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: `The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.'

    Book   Reading   Writing  
    Things Fall Apart ch. 1 (1958)
  • One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

    Gun   Law   Enforcement  
  • A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

    Men   Hands   Should  
    Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.15, Anchor
  • For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.

    Gun   Humanity   Black  
    "Black conservatives: Gun control has ‘racist’ roots" by Nicholas Ballasy, dailycaller.com. February 22, 2013.
  • I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

    Teaching   School   Kids  
    "It's payback time: don't expect sympathy - Lagarde to Greeks" by Larry Elliott, Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.
  • I think I have become a very strong person. If you’re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you’re able to tackle anything around the world because you’re able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I’m concerned.

    "The Wrap Up" with Nonny Orakwue, www.mtv.co.uk. January 4, 2012.
  • Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

  • Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

    Country   Lying   Islands  
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