No
man is foolish as to desire war more than peace: for in peace sons bury their
fathers, but in war, fathers bury their sons.
-Herodotus
If
you come across an error, rather than uprooting it or knocking it down, see if
you can trim it patiently, allowing light to shine upon the nucleus of goodness
and truth that usually is not missing even in erroneous opinions.
-Albino Luciani (Pope John Paul I)
The
people’s hero does not only have to be someone who possesses the levers of
power. It could be anyone who brings unity, prosperity, security, peace and a
sense of worthiness to his or her people. The people often elevate such a
figure to the status of a revered hero with the human touch if the figure
imparts a sense of oneness on a multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-religious
group, especially diverse peoples who have been fighting one another for years,
generations or even centuries.
-Mathias N. Chando
No
reformer is worthy of the name if he fails to be the ultimate pacesetter in his
own reform drive.
-Christopher Nkwayep-Chando
An
ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart
by internal strife. Only someone who can bring about a working consensus
between these diverse ethnicities, races and creeds is truly a hero. Such a person
needs to be a true disciple of peace, prosperity, unity, solidarity and
justice.
-Janvier T. Chando
There
is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest.
-Michael W. Chando
Realization
is born from error.
-John T. Chando
We
are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves, even though
most people prefer to identify with an entity for the sake of belonging,
thereby subjecting themselves to the spirit of collective selfishness that is
only found in groups.
-Kenneth N. Chando
There
is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his
homeland—be it his ancestral or adopted land.
-Julius K. Wakam
“Ubi bebe, ibi
patria vera!” (Where it goes well with me, there is my true fatherland!)
-Samuel N. Fosimondi
In the end, what matters is our faith in
humanity.
-Winston Okole
Siberia
is an immense, barren and boggy region with frozen rivers, marshy plains,
rugged mountains and killing blizzards. It is good only as a hunting ground for
fur.
-The report of a Cossack
explorer to Czar Ivan V, 1684
The
lord while flying over Siberia must have sneezed and dropped his most valuable
pouch, thereby scattering all his treasures over this region.
-Eno Murmi, a Finno-Lettish
geologist to Czar Alexander III, 1890
Other
Soviet peoples have bashed Russians for being chauvinistic and overbearing.
That was a mentality of the Czarist and Stalinist eras. Today, the other
republics can see the mutual respect and understanding between Russians and the
Turanian, Turkic and Mongolian peoples of Siberia.
-Akhromeyev
Cossacks
should never be considered as wholly Slavic, Turanian, Mongolian or Turkic.
They are a distinct people of their own. They should be given the role of
champions of unity for the diverse peoples of the Soviet Union. Their thriving
harmony is glaring proof of the compatibility of one Soviet group to the other,
which is something this country badly needs in order to stay together.
-Boris Pugo
