Uganda Quotes

• 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.

  Idi Amin

  Doctors, Sea, President

  Attributed in "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, 1999.

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• There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

  Idi Amin

  Freedom Of Speech, Guarantees, Speech

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• Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

  Annie Lennox

  Birthday, Mean, Thirty Eight

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• 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.

  Eric Alterman

  Spring, Egypt, United States

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• Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Rights, Situation

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. May 31, 2004.

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• But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use

  Emma Thompson

  Religious, Sex, Condom Use

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• The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Power, Europe, Sea

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• 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.

  Sam Kutesa

  Country, Drinking, Water

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• 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.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Country, Challenges, Election

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

  Idi Amin

  Would Be, Happenings, Ifs

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• From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

  Giles Foden

  Country, Numbers, Tanzania

  "The king and I" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• 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.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Christian, Believe, Creating

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• 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.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Coffee, Dollars, Raw Materials

  "President Museveni Highlights Ugandan Achievements for Americans" by Jim Fisher, news.findlaw.com. September 23, 2005.

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• 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.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Islands, Mad, Water

  "Kenyan MPs' Fury Over Island Row". news.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2009.

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• Every day I have spent in Uganda has been beautifully overwhelming; everywhere I have looked, raw, filthy, human need and brokenness have been on display, begging for someone to meet them, fix them. And even though I realize I cannot always mend or meet, I can enter in. I can enter into someone's pain and sit with them and know. This is Jesus. Not that He apologizes for the hard and the hurt, but that he enters in, He comes with us to the hard places. And so I continue to enter.

  Katie Davis

  Hurt, Jesus, Pain

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• It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

  Idi Amin

  Leader, Flesh, Taste

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• 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.

  Idi Amin

  Powerful, World, Want

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• Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Feet, Ears

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• 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.

  Forest Whitaker

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

  Idi Amin

  Boxing, Trying, Opponents

  Interview, African summit talks, Angola, "The Palm Beach Post" Newspaper, (p.A8), January 12, 1976.

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• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  Idi Amin

  Powerful, World, Figures

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• 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!

  Matthew West

  Christian, Children, Fighting

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• There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'

  Forest Whitaker

  Hate, Hero, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Law, United States

  "In His Own Words: President Obama's Nuanced View on Gay Marriage". Remarks by the President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2010.

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• And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not clear how many people are using the things. The best contraceptive in this case is abstinence.

  Eugene Rivers

  Responsibility, People, Scary

  "Silence is Death". Interview with Eva Thorne, bostonreview.net. April/May 1999.

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