"It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions."

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"It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions."

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

Diplomacy, African, States

"Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences."

Burden, Consequences, Country, Drama

"The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results."

African Unity, Results

"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause."

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"There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking."

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"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."

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"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models."

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"From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks."

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"But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished."

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"The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South."

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"Courage is a kind of salvation."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Courage, Salvation

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

Augustine Og Mandino, American Author

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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"Cowards die many times before their actual deaths."

Julius Caesar, Roman Leader

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"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Courage, Death, Fear

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Courage,