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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

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Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I cant do anything about that. – Miriam Makeba

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Truth
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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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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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I think its a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, youll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. – Cass Sunstein

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Swans sing before they die – twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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