Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny."
Continents quotes
Continents
36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Edmund Barton
Politician
"A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation."
Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation."
Ray Bradbury
Author
"I take this continent with me into the grave."
Douglas Wilder
Politician
"Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little."
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"If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent."
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"Even the continents drift."
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"America, you have it better than our continent, the old one."
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