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1.
If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.
Robert Mugabe

'If President Barack Obama desires that my nation (Zimbabwe) recognize matrimony for same-sex partners, he must come hither so I can officiate his union first.'
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2.
Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.
Robert Mugabe

Don't quarrel over partners. There are plenty of attractive people out there - if you can't find the right one, seek help from Mugabe.
3.
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
Robert Mugabe

4.
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.
Chris Hani

We need to foster a culture of unity and harmony in South Africa, where people are encouraged to lay aside their egos for the greater good of peace. We must strive to cultivate a generation of South Africans who have an abiding affection for their homeland and all its inhabitants, regardless of skin colour.
5.
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.
Robert Mugabe

Our economy is a hundred times superior to the norm of African economies. Apart from South Africa, which other nation can match Zimbabwe's level?.. All that is needed now are commodities on the shelves - nothing else.
6.
What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking - you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation....
David Duke

7.
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.
Sarojini Naidu

A nation's grandeur lies in its unceasing principles of affection and selflessness that motivate the mothers of the nation.
8.
The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody would like to have a good job, a good salary.....but for me that is not the all of struggle. What is important is the continuation of the struggle... the real problems of the country are not whether one is in Cabinet ...but what we do for social upliftment of the working masses of our country.
Chris Hani

9.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln

10.
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
Hermann Goring

11.
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
Robert Baden-Powell

No one can traverse life, any more than they can traverse a stretch of land, without leaving an imprint behind, and these imprints may often be beneficial to those that follow in navigating their own path.
12.
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
Angela Davis

13.
Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country
Dwight D. Eisenhower

14.
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
Hermann Goring

The masses can always be mobilized to serve the designs of those in power...convince them they are under siege, and vilify those who pursue diplomacy as unpatriotic and a risk to national security.
15.
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
Fulton J. Sheen

16.
I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
Adolf Hitler

17.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S. Truman

18.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. Where liberty dwells there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin

19.
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
Kwame Nkrumah

20.
America's got to look after America again. That means taking a realistic appraisal of who is actually at risk in this country, not whining feminists, or whinging Black Lives Matter activists, but gay people and women at risk from Islam. Also, so people in this country who have been treated badly, lied to and lied about. An honest appraisal of who actually needs government attention in this country. And when all of that is done, then we can think about interfering elsewhere again.
Milo Yiannopoulos

21.
I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him.
Jose Rizal

22.
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs
James Connolly

23.
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
Jose Rizal

Innate brilliance is boundless, radiating everywhere, permeating the atmosphere like a natural resource. It is the birthright of humanity.
24.
Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.
Fulton J. Sheen

25.
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
Mahatma Gandhi

Any adolescent, who insists upon dowry for wedlock, belittles his schooling and his homeland and disrespects womanhood.
26.
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.
Steven Biko

27.
The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.
Angela Davis

28.
I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can't guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.
Bernie Sanders

29.
I think the basic culture of this country is European and Christian and I think that if we lose that, we lost America...I don't think we should suppress other races, but I think if we lose that White - what's the word for it - that White dominance in America, with it we lose America.
David Duke

30.
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
Ella Baker

'Until the destruction of African American men and boys elicits the same sense of concern from all within our nation as the death of a Caucasian mother's sons does, those who stand for liberty cannot relax until this is achieved.'
31.
I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.
Jose Rizal

'I pass away without beholding the sun breaking through upon my homeland... You, who will witness it, greet it for me...never forget those who perished in the darkness.'
32.
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
Thurgood Marshall

The litmus test of a nation's greatness is its capacity to show empathy in times of trouble.
33.
Now, some of the most dangerous places for women to be in the world are modern, Western, rich European countries. Why? One reason. Islamic immigration - it's got to stop.
Milo Yiannopoulos

'Now, certain affluent European nations pose a severe threat to women's safety due to Islamic migrants - this influx must be contained.'
34.
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur

"Obligation, Integrity, Nation. Those three sacred phrases reverently dictate what you should be, what you are capable of being, and what you will become."
35.
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
Robert Mugabe

36.
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Samuel Adams

If ever a time should arrive, when pretentious and aggressive individuals take control of the most influential roles in Government, our nation shall require its seasoned patriots to safeguard it from destruction.
37.
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.
Idi Amin

38.
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko

The core principle of black consciousness is to repudiate any beliefs that would render the black person an outsider in their homeland and degrade their essential human worth.
39.
The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.
Thomas Sankara

40.
The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.
Dolores Huerta

41.
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
Henri Nouwen

For Jesus, there is no triumph over nations, nor any notion to be enforced, no individuals to be subdued. Rather, only sons and daughters, wives and husbands to be cherished.
42.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan

If we ever forget our allegiance to God, then we will be a nation doomed.
43.
When a Christian tries to live by reason he is moving out of God’s country into the enemy’s land. We belong in the miraculous and the supernatural realm.
John G. Lake

When a Christian endeavors to live by logic, they are leaving God's domain and entering the adversary's territory. We should remain in the wondrous and supernatural realm.
44.
We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people.
Amilcar Cabral

45.
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.
Joseph Stalin

46.
I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.
Oscar Romero

47.
I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.
Manuel L. Quezon

I would rather have a nation governed incompetently by Filipinos than a country administered perfectly by the Americans, because however flawed Filipino leadership may be, we can always strive to make it better.
48.
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.
Robert E. Lee

Emphasize to everyone that we are all united as one nation; cast aside any regional differences and raise them to be citizens of the United States.
49.
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

'Domestic tranquillity is national repose. National repose is global harmony.'
50.
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
John F. Kennedy

This nation cannot afford to be financially affluent and spiritually destitute.