"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"
-Thomas Jefferson
Be just then, O ye men of understanding! and mark not more severely what women do amiss than the vicious tricks of the horse or the ass for whom ye provide provender-and allow her the privileges of ignorance to whom ye deny the rights of reason, or ye will be worse than Egyptian task-masters, expecting virtue where Nature has not given understanding!
Mary Wollstonecraft
1792.
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
"The Fulani that are kidnapping people are not Nigerian Fulani. They are mostly Fulani from Chad, we Nigerian Fulani may eat someone else farm with our cow, but we don’t kidnap."
— An abducted Fulani man, narrating his experience after being kidnapped.
President of Botswana 🇧🇼 Duma Boko stunned the audience after stopping midway through his speech to deliver a brutal but powerful lecture on relationships, loyalty, and trust.
"Sunday Igboho is a threat to national security and the unity of Nigeria, and he should not be licensed to bear firearms" - A concerned Nigerian cries out, gives reasons.
What are your thoughts?🤔
You do not take a man who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, and bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, “You are free to compete with all others,” and still justly believe you have been completely fair.
-Lyndon Johnson