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Ken Saro-Wiwa
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“If we had a proper system, they would find that there is not so much oil money around anyway.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saro-Wiwa told DW in November 1993
“Certainly. Shell are environmental terrorists. They have waged an ecological war against the Ogoni people for thirty-five years. They have used double standards; the standards they use in Ogoni are different from those they use in the West - in America or in Europe. So, to that extent, they deserve a boycott. A boycott would do them a lot of good and probably call them to reason.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: KEN SARO-WIWA: Oil Boom, Oil Doom, Interview by Chantal Zabus, conducted at the Brussels headquarters of the Alliance of Indigenous Peoples on 16 November 1993.
“My master used to say that they are all tiefman. All of them. Because not so government tell them to do. And they are all chopping bribe from the small small people. My master say it is very bad at all. So we were all very happy when they talk that it will stop now that there is new government of soza and police.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the people were angry with Chief Birabee. They say he took money from all the people make rich man and now common salt have become rich man chop. Not nonsense be that? How Dukana man or woman go manage? If salt cost one shilling, how much cloth go cost? I met Duzia, Bom and Kole one”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘Look, Mene, you are my only son. Even I suffered plenty before I born you. I have born six of you, and you are the only one still alive. I want you to live and bury me when! die. I don’t want to die like chicken, no burial. I have no father, no mother, no brother, no sister. You are my father, my mother, my brother and my sister. Do you hear me? Don’t go and think of foolish thing.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But you know I cannot allow myself to show this fear. Even I just drive it from my mind. I said to myself that Sozaboy cannot fear anything. Because I must return to my Agnes and my mama with plenty rope. Oh yes. And I can only get this rope if we go on patrol and I show that I am big Sozaboy. So one early morning they woke myself and Bullet”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My lord, we all stand before history. I am a man of peace, of ideas... I have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I repeat that we all stand before history. I and my colleagues are not the only ones on trial. Shell is here on trial... The Company has indeed ducked this particular trial, but its day will surely come.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We All Stand Before History, By Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995)
“I'll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The proceedings leave no doubt that the judgment has been written in advance. And a sentence of death against which there is no appeal is a certainty... Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source