{"quotes":[{"text":"The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advantage","altruism","benefit","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","object","philosopher","philosophy","pleasure","satire","satirist","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":41834,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.","author":"Idowu Koyenikan","tags":["africa","africa-house","africa-leaders","africa-people","africa","africa-s-predicament","africa-s-wealth","africa-will-shake","african","african-","african-believes","african-citizens","african-continent","african-cultural","african-culture","african-cup-of-nations","african-descent","african-development","african-development-bank","african-dictators","african-fiction","african-freethinker","african-great-healer","african-great-lakes","african-healer","african-juju","african-languages","african-leaders","african-literature","african-my-motherland","african-national-congress","african-people","african-proverb","african","african-safari","african-saying","african-socialism","african-story-telling","african-traditional-healer","african-union","african-woman","african-women","african-writer","africana","africana-studies","africans","china-achebe","desmond-tutu","kofi-annan","kwame-nkrumah","nelson-mandela","tribal","tribalism","tribe","tribes"],"id":79987,"author_id":"Idowu+Koyenikan"},{"text":"Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","good","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","philosopher","philosophy","satire","selfishness","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfishness"],"id":86433,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","motivation","motive","motives","nelson-mandela","pain","philosopher","philosophy","pleasure","satire","satirist","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":93420,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I cannot pinpoint a moment when I became politicized, when I knew that I would spend my life in the liberation struggle. To be an African in South Africa means that one is politicized from the moment of one's birth, whether one acknowledges it or not...His life is circumscribed by racist laws and regulations that cripple his growth, dim his potential, and stunt his life...I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments, produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, From henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.","author":"Nelson Mandela","tags":["apartheid","freedom","freedom-fighter","nelson-mandela","racism","south-africa","struggle"],"id":101833,"author_id":"Nelson+Mandela"},{"text":"In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","breakup","breakups","charity","compassion","debt","divorce","empathy","fail","failure","feed","food","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","heart","hearts","humanity","humor","humour","job","kitchen","loss","love","lover","lovers","mahatma-ghandi","man","mandela","marriage","men","mercy","mortgage","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","nutrition","occupation","partner","partners","philosopher","philosophy","poverty","rent","rental","romance","satire","satirist","security","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","spouse","spouses","starvation","stomach","sympathy","teresa","tummy","unemployment","unselfish","unselfishness","woman","women"],"id":115241,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","impossibility","impossible","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","philosopher","philosophy","satire","satirist","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":119523,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions'. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["dies","dream","dream-big","dreams","excellence","extra-mile","followers","food-for-thought","freedom","governance","impress","impression","impressive","impressor","israelmore-ayivor","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","live","martin-luther","martin-luther-king-jr","nelson-mandela","oppression","oppressive","oppressor","opress","passion","quality","true-leaders","vision","visionary","visions"],"id":146080,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","bad","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","good","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","philosopher","philosophy","satire","selfishness","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfishness"],"id":153429,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You know, I gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier when I first encountered you, the raging beast—oh I mean bitch. But nowI truly think that if greats who devoted themselves and achieved in some way at killing evil with kindness like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, well I think if any of them met you... They truly would break that seal of devotion and beat the bloody shit out of you.”“I take that as a compliment.”“Oh, I know you do.","author":"Chelsea Ballinger","tags":["bitch","evil","gandhi","love","martin-luther-king-jr","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","scarlett"],"id":171453,"author_id":"Chelsea+Ballinger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}