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Amashiwi - Past Quotes

05 August 2014

"Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail to take a pride in his country's participation in the story of mankind, as represented in carvings, sculpture, music, paintings and the other arts. And there is a personal commitment to this, for no man can really say he is alone: we are all joined through our identity, with the cultures which are part of the mainstream of life" - Simon Kapwepwe, Zambian Independence Freedom Fighter

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill

"Try to be the rainbow in someone else's cloud" - Maya Angelou

"Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinion drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition" - Steve Jobs

25 May 2012

"The day will come when history will speak...Africa will write its own history, it will be a history of glory and dignity," - Patrice Lumumba


04 April 2012
"They can because they think they can," - Virgil (Inspirational quote in Zambian newspaper The Daily Mail on 13th February 2012 to describe our Chipolopolo AFCON win)
"Be yourself, everyone else is taken," - Oscar Wilde

05 May 2011
"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.  The woman who stands alone is likely to find herself in places noone has ever seen before," - Albert Einstein

25 February, 2011
"The spirit of democracy is not at all alien to Africa," - Richard Dowden, British Journalist


02 January, 2011
"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live,"- Unknown (Whoever it was was a very smart lad or gal)


01 December, 2010
"We must continue to speak openly about AIDS. No progress will be achieved by being timid, refusing to face unpleasant facts, or prejudging our fellow human beings - still less by stigmatising people living with HIV/ AIDS. Let no one imagine that we can protect ourselves by building barriers between "us" and "them" in the ruthless world of AIDS, there is no us and them. And in that world, silence is death," - Koffi Annan, 7th United Nations Secretary-General, 1997-2006


11 November, 2010
"The spirit of democracy is not at all alien to Africa," - Richard Dowden, British Journalist specialised in African Issues 


04 August, 2010
"I don't see Africa as a world apart; I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world," - President Obama addressing the President's Forum With Young African Leaders 


03 August, 2010
"Talent is equally distributed but opporunity is not," - Hilary Rodham Clinton addressing the President's Forum With Young African Leaders