African Union Quotes

• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  Omar Bongo

  Encouragement, Unions, Birth

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• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Order, Hiv

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• I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Party, Thinking, Track

  "Fatou Bensouda: the woman who could redeem the international criminal court" by Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they beat their sacred drums for him until the stars skipped and danced in the skies. After that dance the stars weren't little anymore. Christianity helped Africans to become renewed Africans, not remade Europeans.

  Lamin Sanneh

  Jesus, Stars, Heart

  Lamin Sanneh (2003). “Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West”, p.43, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• When the problems in Libya started, the African Union set up a committee to address the situation. We urgently advised the Europeans not to intervene. You have done so anyway. Now we are seeing absolute chaos there.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Unions, Addresses, Done

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That as much as we're afraid of New World Order coming and of Canada and America joining together, that if we don't learn the lessons from the past then it doesn't matter what you want to call it: the North American Union or the South American Union, or the European Union, or the African Union... it doesn't matter what you call it as long as the arrangement remains the same.

  Immortal Technique

  Past, Order, America

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• A number of African countries came to us and said, we request that South Africa should not field a candidate, because so many other African countries wanted to, and, in any case, South Africa would continue to play a role in terms of building the African Union, and so on. And they actually said, please don't field a candidate, and we didn't. As I have said, it is not because we didn't have people who are competent to serve in these positions.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Play, Numbers

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Taken, People, Soldier

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• The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.

  Elliott Abrams

  Military, Blood, Economic Sanctions

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