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Mfuniselwa John Bhengu Quotes

b. 1953

Mfuniselwa John Bhengu (born 24 May 1953) is a South African social philosopher, author and former politician, best known for his writings on Ubuntu and African humanism.

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"One day, mankind will be measured by its compassion and Ubuntu, which is above law, and beyond black and white."

"We must react and respond urgently to the visible virus that is destroying and reducing the cell of humanity to ruins and fragments."

"Ubuntu is a kind of divine element. There is God in a human being."

"The present Western economic model is catastrophically failing the whole world."

"Recovery of African values means to discover our history."

"To come to know ourselves as we were prior to our recreation by aliens means we will be in charge of our own becoming."

"The new order, born of the victory in 1994, inherited a well-entrenched value system that placed individual acquisition of wealth at the very centre of the value system of our society as a whole."

"Gandhi gave India the spiritual concept of 'soul force' (satyagraha), a capacity to sustain and transcend physical discomfort in a triumph of concentration and restraint. Why should we Africans not give South Africa that 'soul force' (ubuntu)."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mfuniselwa John Bhengu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.