Nigeria Independence Quotes

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

  Confucius

  Family, Strength, Peace

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Fate, Destiny

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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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• 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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• Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

  Frank Herbert

  Suffering, Purpose, Empires

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.49, Penguin

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• A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Courage, Patriotic

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• Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. 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; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

  Patrick Henry

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Blessing

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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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• If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

  Thomas Merton

  Political, Want, Study

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• Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Destiny, Tyrants, Coward

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• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, President, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.20, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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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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• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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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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• 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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