“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
“There are those who stand in the vanguard, those who huddle ineffectively in the centre, and those who definitely hold progress back.”
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII
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