Do not expect too much from the world. We are here to give not to take.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
It is quite easy to understand what China would need from the African continent with regards to its own economy, raw materials, oil and a market for manufactured goods. As I say it is not difficulty to understand and perfectly legitimate. There is nothing wrong with that.
Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history.
I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.
I must say that, in the first instance, we got the request from many African countries who said, look, you people had better host the Parliament. So, the general feeling around the Continent was that it would be better that the Parliament was based here. In part, because of what this country has done with regard to establishing a democratic system, and we have responded to that. We have said, fine.
A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.
Good thoughts bear good fruit.
No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be. ' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied. ] - Last words of Toure Bomoko