Nnimmo Bassey quotes

“Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole”
-- Nnimmo Bassey

Source : "Naomi Klein kick-starts the activism at Copenhagen with call for disobedience" by Bibi van der Zee, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2009.

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“The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military”
-- Nnimmo Bassey

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“Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.”
-- Nnimmo Bassey

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“I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.”

“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”

“When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.”

“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”

“Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.”

“Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.”

“The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.”

Source : "Mitch McConnell, Alison Lundergan Grimes Attack Each Other On Coal" by Robert Farley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.”

Source : Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945

“You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.”

“The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.”