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Unknown Soldier #1

Lwanga Moses – She looks at us and sees only genocide, child soldiers, AIDs and famine.  Her altruism borders on fetishism.

and

Reporter – There’s a great deal about national unity in your speeches, doctor, but our borders were drawn under the British Protectorate.  Tribes thrown together.  Long established ethnic boundaries dissolved.  Isn’t the “Nation of Uganda” just a myth?

Lwanga Moses – Intellectualize what Uganda is all you like, Momolu.  We’ve simply no choice but to get along if we’re to find our voice as a nation.

also

Lwanga Moses – Africans must demand this.  Not Americans, not the E.U., not Asians or Russians or Arabs.  Africans must change Africa, and they must do it without violence.  We, as a people must teach our children that peace is their mother.  Prosperity is their mother.  But will we ever believe that… if we continue to answer violence with violence.

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A light week for quotes.  Both come from The Invincible Iron Man #4:

On a gathering of various terrorists:

We’ve got Kashmiris…Crazy cracker separatist trash.  A handful of Basque… And even Communists from Peru.  My Lord Zeke.  It’s like an ideological Beneton Ad out there.

And showing sometimes comic book writers sometimes have brilliant ideas on how to fix the world (WARNING SPOILER):

Tony Stark: Did you know there are some places in Africa where you’ve got a machine for every thirty-five people?  To say nothing of the warehouses and supply lines you’ve established over generations?  All the governments and N.G.O.s in the world can’t get as established in the third world as you guys.

Cola Exec: Mr. Stark… You’re buying us for our vending machines to sell a drink you don’t even like?

Tony Stark: No.  I’m buying you for vending machines from which we’ll distribute retrovirals and — Once we get it — The AIDS Vaccine.  All across the third world.  Your vending machines are gonna save more lives than the Berlin Airlift.

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