Friday, August 21, 2020

Quotes by Ahmed Skou Tour

Statements by Ahmed Skou Tour Without being Communists, we accept that the investigative characteristics of Marxism and the association of the individuals are techniques particularly appropriate for our country.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, first leader of Guinea, as cited in Rolf Italiaanders The New Leaders of Africa, New Jersey, 1961 Individuals are not brought into the world with racial biases. For instance, youngsters have none. Racial inquiries are inquiries of training. Africans learned prejudice structure the European. Is anyone shocked that they currently think as far as race after all theyve experienced under colonialism?Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, first leader of Guinea, as cited in Rolf Italiaanders The New Leaders of Africa, New Jersey, 1961 An African legislator is certifiably not a bare kid asking from rich capitalists.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, first leader of Guinea, as cited in Guinea: Trouble in Erewhon, Time, Friday 13 December 1963. The private broker has a more prominent awareness of other's expectations than government employees, who get paid toward the finish of every month and just a single time in some time think about the country or their own responsibility.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, first leader of Guinea, as cited in Guinea: Trouble in Erewhon, Time, Friday 13 December 1963. We ask you in this way, not to pass judgment on us or consider us regarding what we were or even of what we are yet rather to consider us as far as history and what we will be tomorrow.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, first leader of Guinea, as cited in Rolf Italiaanders The New Leaders of Africa, New Jersey, 1961 We ought to go down to the grassroots of our way of life, not to stay there, not to be disconnected there, however to draw quality and substance there from, and with whatever extra wellsprings of solidarity and material we obtain, continue to set up another type of society raised to the degree of human progress.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, as cited in Osei Amoahs A Political Dictionary of Black Quotations, distributed in London, 1989. To participate in the African unrest it isn't sufficient to compose a progressive melody: you should design the upset with the individuals. What's more, on the off chance that you design it with the individuals, the tunes will stop by themselves.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, as cited in Osei Amoahs A Political Dictionary of Black Quotations, distributed in London, 1989. At nightfall when you appeal to God, say again and again that each man is a sibling and that all men are equal.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, as cited in Robin Halletts, Africa Since 1875, University of Michigan Press, 1974. We have let you know obtusely, Mr President, what the requests of the individuals are ... We have one prime and basic need: our pride. Yet, there is no nobility without opportunity ... We incline toward opportunity in destitution to lavishness in slavery.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©s explanation to General De Gaulle during the French chiefs visit to Guinea in August 1958, as cited in Robin Halletts, Africa Since 1875, University of Michigan Press, 1974. For the initial twenty years, we in Guinea have focused on building up the attitude of our kin. Presently we are prepared to proceed onward to other business.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©. as cited in David Lambs The Africans, New York 1985. I dont recognize what individuals mean when they consider me the terrible offspring of Africa. Is it that they think of us as rigid in the battle against dominion, against expansionism? Provided that this is true, we can be glad to be called obstinate. Our desire is to stay an offspring of Africa unto our death..Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, as cited in David Lambs The Africans, New York 1985. Individuals of Africa, starting now and into the foreseeable future you are reawakened ever, on the grounds that you prepare yourself in the battle and in light of the fact that the battle before you reestablishes to your own eyes and renders to you, equity according to the world.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, as cited in The Permanent Struggle, The Black Scholar, Vol 2 No 7, March 1971. [T]he political pioneer is, by righteousness of his fellowship of thought and activity with his kin, the delegate of his kin, the agent of a culture.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, as cited in Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh Asantes African Culture the Rhythms of Unity: The Rhythms of Unity Africa, World Press, October 1989. Throughout the entire existence of this new Africa which has quite recently appeared on the scene, Liberia has a superior spot since she has been for every one of our people groups the living evidence that our freedom was conceivable. Furthermore, it's not possible for anyone to disregard the way that the star which denotes the Liberian national seal has been hanging for over a century the sole star that lit up our night of ruled peoples.Ahmed Sã ©kou Tourã ©, from his Liberian Independence Day Address of 26 July 1960, as cited in Charles Morrow Wilsons Liberia: Black Africans in Microcosm, Harper and Row, 1971.

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