Ubuntu Quotes
The best sayings about Ubuntu that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.
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Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
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If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
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Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.
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Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
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Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.
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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
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We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.
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I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
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Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.
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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
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Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.
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Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
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If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
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[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.
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Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
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War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
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You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
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