Osonye Tess Onwueme quotes

“People create social conditions and people can change them.”
-- Osonye Tess Onwueme

Source : Osonye Tess Onwueme (1993). “Three Plays”, p.11, Wayne State University Press

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“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

“My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.”

“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”

“I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”

“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.

“Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.”

“And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.”

“If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.”

“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”