Ahmed Sekou Toure Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
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For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
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The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom.
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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
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You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.
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I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.
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Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
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I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
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Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
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We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
