Africa

Explore 72 quotes by people from Africa

Our heart is restless until it rests in you.

St. Augustine

Confessions

Buy Confessions at Amazon Buy Confessions at Amazon
Read Confessions at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Seeking God God and man

Author

St. Augustine

Source

Confessions

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

400 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score

Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

St. Augustine

Confessions

Buy Confessions at Amazon Buy Confessions at Amazon
Read Confessions at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Chastity Sexual morality Self-control Sex

Author

St. Augustine

Source

Confessions

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Latin

Time

398 390s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 8, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 8, ch. 7.

There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church.

St. Cyprian

More information about this quote

Topic

Catholic church Salvation Christianity

Author

St. Cyprian

Medium

Letter

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

256 250s 3rd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Saint Cyprian. Letter to Jubaianus. c. 256, sect. 21.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

Tertullian

More information about this quote

Topic

Martyrs The Church Christianity

Author

Tertullian

Source

Apologeticus

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

197 190s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Tertullian. Apologeticum [Apologeticus]. c. 197, ch. 50, sect. 13.

What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Tertullian

More information about this quote

Topic

Athens and Jerusalem Athens Jerusalem Philosophy Religion

Author

Tertullian

Source

On the Prescription of Heretics

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

Latin

Time

220 220s 3rd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Tertullian. De Praescriptione Haereticorum [On the Prescription of Heretics]. c. 1892, ch. 7.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom

Buy Long Walk to Freedom at Amazon Buy Long Walk to Freedom at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Hate Prejudice and bias Loving others Education

Author

Nelson Mandela

Source

Long Walk to Freedom

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Little, Brown and Company, 1994, pt. 11.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights.

Desmond Tutu

More information about this quote

Topic

Equality Human rights

Speaker

Desmond Tutu

Medium

Interview TV program

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Tutu, Desmond. The Today Show, NBC, 9 Jan. 1985.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

Anwar Sadat

More information about this quote

Topic

Israel-Palestine conflict Peace

Speaker

Anwar Sadat

Medium

Interview

Language

Arabic

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Sadat, Anwar. Interview. New York Times, 9 Mar. 1978.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Nelson Mandela

More information about this quote

Topic

Freedom Apartheid

Author

Nelson Mandela

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mandela, Nelson. Statement declining offer of freedom. Presented by Zindzi Mandela. 10 Feb. 1985, Jabulani Stadium, Soweto, South Africa, Africa.

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Patrice Lumumba

Congo, My Country

Buy Congo, My Country at Amazon Buy Congo, My Country at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Moral theory

Author

Patrice Lumumba

Source

Congo, My Country

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lumumba, Patrice. Congo, My Country. Praeger, 1962, ch. 3.

A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love.

St. Augustine

City of God

Buy The City of God at Amazon Buy The City of God at Amazon
Read The City of God, vol. 2 at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Nation Community

Author

St. Augustine

Source

City of God

Genre

Philosophical literature Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

426 420s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. De civitate Dei contra paganos [On the City of God Against the Pagans]. c. 426, bk. 19, sect. 24.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. City of God, translated by Henry Bettenson. Penguin Classics, 2004, bk. 19, sect. 24.

Outside the Kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other…God and history will remember your judgment.

Haile Selassie I

More information about this quote

Topic

International politics

Speaker

Haile Selassie I

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

Amharic

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Selassie, Haile. Appeal to the League of Nations. 30 June 1936, League of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes... Until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race... Until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

Haile Selassie I

More information about this quote

Topic

Racism Progress World peace

Speaker

Haile Selassie I

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Selassie, Haile. Address to the United Nations General Assembly. United Nations General Assembly. 4 Oct. 1963, New York, NY, USA.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah

Consciencism

More information about this quote

Topic

Revolution

Author

Kwame Nkrumah

Source

Consciencism

Genre

Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nkrumah, Kwame. Consciencism. Monthly Review Press, 1964, ch. 2.

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

St. Augustine

Confessions

Buy Confessions at Amazon Buy Confessions at Amazon
Read Confessions at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Original sin Human nature Children

Author

St. Augustine

Source

Confessions

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

400 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 1, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 1, ch. 7.

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

Nelson Mandela

Buy Long Walk to Freedom at Amazon Buy Long Walk to Freedom at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Political reconciliation Enemies Peace

Author

Nelson Mandela

Source

Long Walk to Freedom

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Little, Brown and Company, 1994, pt. 11.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

Nelson Mandela

More information about this quote

Topic

Political reconciliation Forgiveness

Speaker

Nelson Mandela

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Mandela, Nelson. 7 Jan. 1996. Speech.

Hear the other side.

St. Augustine

More information about this quote

Topic

Tolerance Listening Goodwill

Author

St. Augustine

Source

On Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans

Genre

Philosophical literature Religious literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Latin

Time

391 390s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

St. Augustine of Hippo. De Duabus Animabus Contra Manichaeos. [Concerning Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans.] 391 AD.

He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

St. Cyprian

More information about this quote

Topic

Catholic church God and man Christianity

Author

St. Cyprian

Source

On the Unity of the Catholic Church

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

251 250s 3rd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Saint Cyprian. De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate. c. 251, ch. 6.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Suetonius

Said by gladiators saluting the Roman Emperor prior to combat.

More information about this quote

Topic

Battle War

Author

Suetonius

Source

Lives of the Caesars

Genre

Biography Historical literature

Language

Latin

Time

52 50s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Bion. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 50.

Current Citation

Bion. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 50.