Zimbabwe Quotes - Page 2

• I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, People, Leader

  "Mbeki meets with Zimbabwe's embattled leaders" by Nkepile Mabuse, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2008.

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• The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hands, People, Matter

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• Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Stupid, Rights, Office

  Interview with Financial Times, April 10, 2007.

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• The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe. The matter of who governs the people of South Africa is in the hands of the people of South Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hands, People, Matter

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The things had been made a half a dozen times from silent pictures through the '30s and '40s. In fact, I think there's a version in the '50s. And then, of course, Spielberg eventually did a version of The Lost World, but this [filming] was '91, I think. And we shot it in Zimbabwe.

  Eric McCormack

  Thinking, Half, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

  Harold Wilson

  Might, Matter, Months

  'The Times' 13 January 1966

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• Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Giving, Mugabe

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• It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe .

  Raila Odinga

  Rights, Views, Leader

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• I don't believe in soul mates, not exactly. I think it's ridiculous to think there's only one person out there for us. What if your 'soul mate' lives in Zimbabwe? What if he dies young? I also think 'two souls becoming one' is ridiculous. You need to hold on to yourself. But I do believe in souls being in sync, souls that mirror each other.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

  John Bolton

  Country, America, Albania

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• People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Hero, Zambia, People

  "Mugabe's Hold on Africans". Interview with Peter Biles, news.bbc.co.uk. August 25, 2007.

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• The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far more formidable, far better organised. But we would have wanted to hear the voice of the anti-imperialist forces, those who espouse the cause of freedom, the cause of independence, everywhere.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• I think that the movement is weak in Zimbabwe, much weaker than it is in Italy for example, much weaker than it is in Spain, much weaker than it is even in Germany, although there the groups are small they are very vociferous and you get them speaking loudly and organising.

  Robert Mugabe

  Thinking, Groups, Spain

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.

  Robert Mugabe

  Struggle, Force, Democratic

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

  Philip Pullman

  Australia, England, My Family

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• I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. We can't necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Decision, United States

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• Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

  Ilana Mercer

  Dust, Bowls

  "The Genocide in Democratic South Africa". www.wnd.com. January 19, 2007.

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• If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.

  Jabari Asim

  Memories, Struggle, Character

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• Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

  Kyle Bass

  Eggs, Portfolios, Performers

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• When I first arrived in beautiful Zimbabwe, it was difficult to understand that 35 percent of the population is HIV positive. It really wasn't until I was invited to the homes of people that I started to understand the human toll of the epidemic.

  Kristen Ashburn

  Beautiful, Home, Epidemics

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• I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.

  Shawn Achor

  Strong, Jobs, Land

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The most impactful place that Ive been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.

  Hill Harper

  Beautiful, Fall, Zambia

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• To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Taken, Land, Long

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• I would like to get out to the region in the Caspian sea. I would like to go there. I would like to get to Darfur. I would like to get to Khartoum in Northern Sudan. I would like to get to Zimbabwe. I would like to go back to North Korea, if I could. I would like to go to Yemen. I would like to get to Kashmir. Most of those destinations I will get to.

  Henry Rollins

  Korea, Sea, Kashmir

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degrees of latitude—as if a single power held sway from St. Petersburg to Cairo.

  Charles C. Mann

  Powerful, Russia, Aztec

  Charles C. Mann (2006). “1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”, p.74, Vintage

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