Quote by Miriam Makeba
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. – Miriam Makeba

Other quotes by Miriam Makeba

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change peoples ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time. – Miriam Makeba

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Change
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Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. – Miriam Makeba

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Future
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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. – Miriam Makeba

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Home
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Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature. – Kelly Sheaffer

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Human nature is above all things lazy. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – John Lubbock

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. – Epictetus

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The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

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When youve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. – George Harrison

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The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest. – Edouard R. Laboulaye

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