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I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.

~Al Sharpton

Topics: Africa Apartheid Down Elections First Flag New Raise South South Africa Take Them Watched

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Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.

~Alain Juppe

Topics: Africa Also Brazil Center China Course Europe France India Influence International Key More Neither Other Players Say Sometimes South South Africa Stage States Strong United United States Very World

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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

~Alan Cumming

Topics: Africa Could Even Experts Generation Mothers Positive Think

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Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Africa Asia Board Day Destination Each Each Day Europe Even Final Jobs Knowing Nations Parts Plane Plentiful Poor Sometimes Travelers Well Where Without

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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

~Alan Paton

Topics: Africa Contribution Creative Different Each Envision Great Groups Making Many Nation Own Peaceful Pride Someday South South Africa Take Which Will World

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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

~Alan Paton

Topics: Africa Central Concern Issues Novel Publishing South South Africa Which Worth Wrote You

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Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

~Alcee Hastings

Topics: Africa Almost Any Below Country Die Education Had Hunger Infant Malnutrition Mortality Nation Other Parts People Public Public Education Ranks Rate Rivals Some Sub-Saharan System Western Yesterday

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Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Africa Air American Asia Breathe Breathed Connection Easily Europe Forget Jesus Like Remember Same Them Those Would

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Going on safari in South Africa was hardcore but a lot of fun - though my friend Maura was absolutely freaking out about all the bugs in her hair and having to pee in the sand.

~Alek Wek

Topics: About Absolutely Africa Bugs Friend Fun Going Hair Hardcore Having Her Lot My Friend Out Sand South South Africa Though

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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Africa China Could Exclude Islamic Modernity Referring Russia Say Today Use West Word World

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