FastSaying
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
Chinua Achebe
charity
paraphrased
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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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