Uganda Quotes

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  • President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!

    Country   Uganda   Law  
  • I think the place fed me completely. Not only was I in Uganda, but I was around many people who had a personal relationship with Idi Amin. I was eating the food constantly. I was culturally hanging out with the people. You can't help but absorb the energy, and try to get inside the culture.

    Source: aalbc.com
  • One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

    Thabo Mbeki (2002). “Africa Define Yourself”
  • After I read about Uganda's now famous "kill the gays" bill, I wanted to explore the religious forces behind it. As a gay man, I wanted to understand the folks who wanted to kill me and why.

    Religious   Gay   Men  
  • American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

  • Trying to understand, inside, what it is to be Ugandan was crucial to the character, because there are Ugandan ways of doing things that I was trying to capture. Even if I had made this movie in South Africa, it would not have been the same, because it is so specific to Uganda.

    Source: aalbc.com
  • The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

    Pain   Cutting   Uganda  
  • It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people of conscience and people of faith, has shown the soul of our country.

    Country   Sex   Zimbabwe  
    Condoleezza Rice's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.
  • From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

    "The king and I" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.
  • His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

    Uganda   Doctors   Sea  
    Attributed in "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, 1999.
  • The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa. Well, how many people know about this?

    War   Uganda   Government  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

    IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. May 31, 2004.
  • Today, Musana is a thriving orphanage in Iganga, Uganda, housing over one hundred children! When asked what it was that made her fight for these children she simply said, “I just kept thinking, ‘If I don’t do something, who will?' Today, so many of us Christians talk so much about being the hands and feet of Christ, but never really displaying what that looks like. It’s not about talking. It’s about doing! It’s time for us to do something!

  • My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed [and sold in Britain], goes for $10, $11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation that goes for all raw materials.

    Coffee   Uganda   Dollars  
    "President Museveni Highlights Ugandan Achievements for Americans" by Jim Fisher, news.findlaw.com. September 23, 2005.
  • I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

    Powerful   Uganda   World  
  • Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.

    Hate   War   Home  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

    Spring   Uganda   Egypt  
  • I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

    Powerful   Uganda   World  
  • I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott Lively is allowed to address the parliament for five hours, and his hate-filled message led directly to the anti-homosexuality bill.

    Hate   Uganda   Addresses  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • The first lady of Uganda is a devoted evangelical and beloved by the faith community. At an evangelical conference in Argentina, one minister said, "Mama Janet has given us the keys to Africa." She has done that by creating a nation that has embraced a Dominionist form of Christianity that believes that Christians have a God-given right to rule the world.

  • In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

    Attributed in "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations" by Jonathon Green, 1982.
  • When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

    Book   Uganda   Phones  
  • It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.

  • Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

    Real   Men   Uganda  
    Attributed in "The Evil 100" by Martin Gilman Wolcott, (p. 78), 2004.
  • I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.

    "We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.
  • It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

    Uganda   Leader   Flesh  
  • The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.

    Uganda   Islands   Mad  
    "Kenyan MPs' Fury Over Island Row". news.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2009.
  • Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. One of them said, "We're going to take care of this guy." When I was confronted by them I didn't know what they were going to do, but they decided to pray over me. They said they were going to cure me. That didn't work, of course.

    Gay   Uganda   Guy  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Since Idi Amin was from the Sudanese section in the north of Uganda, he was darker skinned. He had more of a blue undertone. So, we did change the coloring of my skin to be closer to his. But otherwise, there were no transformations besides acting.

    Uganda   Blue   Skins  
    Source: aalbc.com
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