Quote by Chinua Achebe
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examin

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe

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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. – Chinua Achebe

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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you dont just turn it off one day. – Chinua Achebe

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strength
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Ive had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. – Chinua Achebe

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If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. Were a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. – Madeleine Albright

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The historian amputates reality. – Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist

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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Its in the history books, the Holocaust. Its just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. – Gene Simmons

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