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Paul Kagame Quotes

- Leader | October 23, 1957 -

In a state of poverty, illiteracy, people just remain exposed to all kinds of manipulation. That's what we have lived. It's easier to tell a poor person, 'You know what, you are poor, you're hungry because the other one has taken away your rights.'

People Poverty You Person Know Poor

I don't think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda. Because, when it came to the problems facing Rwanda, and the Congo, they were all useless.

Me Problems Think Media Moral Right

We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.

Opportunity Responsibility Culture

Some are short, others are tall, others are thin, others are stocky. But we are all human beings. Can we not live together and happily within one border?

Live Together Border Short Others

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Today Investment Africa Development

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

Compromise Think Weakness Flexibility

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Future Power Back Clock Never Turn

Our world faces difficult challenges, but no more so than in the past. Working together in a constructive spirit, we can assure our children the future they deserve.

Future Children Working Together Past

Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves to a level where there are certain terms we dictate in the conversation because we have a lot to offer.

Wait Conversation Africa Where Level

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

Ideas Unity Building Country Scared

I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.

Business I Am American Whatever Am

We cannot just be a corridor to smuggle minerals out.

Out Cannot Just Minerals Just Be

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