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We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery.

— Sékou Touré

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Science has no homeland, but the scientist has one, and it is to that homeland that he must dedicate his knowledge.

Every free and sovereign people finds itself placed in conditions more favourable to the expression of its cultural values than a colonized country...

The revolution is not a matter of a single day, nor is it the task of one man; it is a permanent creation

"And if you fashion it [the revolution] with the people, the songs will come by themselves and of themselves

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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