Nigeria Independence Quotes

• What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Impact, People, Legacy

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• We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Country, People, Want

  Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

  Brigham Young

  Motivational, Freedom, Independence

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• There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Country, Pride, Diversity

  "Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Author, Comes Out As Gay To Challenge Homophobic Laws", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Land, People, Giving

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• Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Real, Government, People

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• Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

  Chinua Achebe

  Leader, Should, Nigeria

  "Playing the power game", www.espn.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Views, Mind Your Own Business, Style

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• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Graduation, Dream

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• Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.

  Susan Rice

  Rights, People, Political

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• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

  Confucius

  Family, Strength, Peace

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• One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

  Terry Pratchett

  Two, People, Persons

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.278, Random House

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• No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

  George Mason

  Freedom, Blessing, Government

  Virginia Declaration of Rights (Article 15), June 12, 1776.

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• Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Fate, Destiny

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• In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Humanity, States

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• Bad men cannot make good citizens.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, Tyrants, Citizens

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• A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Honor, Remember

  Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963.

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• To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

  Ben Okri

  Art, Poison, Stories

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• No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Freedom, Liberty, Literature

  "See It Now" (CBS), March 7, 1954.

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• Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Wall, Rights, World

  "Kofi Annan and U.N. Accept 2001 Nobel Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2001.

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• The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...

  George Washington

  Order, Heaven, Addresses

  George Washington's Inaugural Address, www.archives.gov. April 30, 1789.

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• As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

  Marian Anderson

  Inspirational, Positive, Women

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• Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Surrender, Individual

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Chinua Achebe

  Stories, Complicated, Nigeria

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• No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ignorance, Impunity, Nations

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.114, Modern Library

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