A Quote by Omar Bongo

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

Omar Bongo

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African Among Countries Duty Short Solidarity

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Omar Bongo
Gabonese - Statesman
December 30, 1935 - June 8, 2009

To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the first of these challenges: solidarity among generations, solidarity between countries and entire continents, so that all human beings may share more equitably in the riches of our planet. This is one of the essential services that people of good will must render to humanity. The earth, in fact, can produce enough to nourish all its inhabitants, on the condition that the rich countries do not keep for themselves what belongs to all.

Pope Benedict XVI

I have seen African countries negotiate bilaterally and within the WTO. African countries come to the WTO prepared and defend their interests with vigour.

Arancha Gonzalez

China has established friendship with many African countries, and is opening itself up to Africa and providing assistance. It is cooperating with African countries on an equal basis and has no desire to colonize Africa.

Wen Jiabao

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

Malcolm X

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.

Aldo Leopold

African countries lose the most from tax dodging. African governments must, therefore, do more to push for a full reform of the global tax system and demand action from countries, such as the U.K., whose financial centres sit at the heart of the global network of tax havens.

Winnie Byanyima

A number of African countries came to us and said, we request that South Africa should not field a candidate, because so many other African countries wanted to, and, in any case, South Africa would continue to play a role in terms of building the African Union, and so on. And they actually said, please don't field a candidate, and we didn't. As I have said, it is not because we didn't have people who are competent to serve in these positions.

Thabo Mbeki

[Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from union households, so, unions, women, African-Americans.

Chris Matthews

We are different from many African countries. We represent Africa as the gateway and will do everything to make African and Israeli relations mushroom.

Hailemariam Desalegn

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

Lech Walesa

We know that the African regimes, many African regimes have failed their people and many Africans want regime change, and there are a lot of African leaders who make promises but don't carry them out. I mean, the progress - I mean, it is noble for the rich countries to help Africa, but then the question is: What are African leaders themselves doing to help their own people?

George W. Bush

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

Che Guevara

As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should host.

Thabo Mbeki

There are some people who are happy to be African writers. They are pan-Africanists. I'm not a pan-Africanist. I think African countries have a lot in common. But we are also very different.