Quotes by Ahmed Skou Tour

Without being Communists, we believe that the analytical qualities of Marxism and the organization of the people are methods especially well-suited for our country.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, first president of Guinea, as quoted in Rolf Italiaanders The New Leaders of Africa, New Jersey, 1961 People are not born with racial prejudices. For example, children have none. Racial questions are questions of education. Africans learned racism form the European. Is it any wonder that they now think in terms of race -- after all theyve gone through under colonialism?Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, first president of Guinea, as quoted in Rolf Italiaanders The New Leaders of Africa, New Jersey, 1961 An African statesman is not a naked boy begging from rich capitalists.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, first president of Guinea, as quoted in Guinea: Trouble in Erewhon, Time, Friday 13 December 1963. The private trader has a greater sense of responsibility than civil servants, who get paid at the end of each month and only once in a while think of the nation or their own responsibility.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, first president of Guinea, as quoted in Guinea: Trouble in Erewhon, Time, Friday 13 December 1963. We ask you therefore, not to judge us or think of us in terms of what we were -- or even of what we are -- but rather to think of us in terms of history and what we will be tomorrow.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, first president of Guinea, as quoted in Rolf Italiaanders The New Leaders of Africa, New Jersey, 1961 We should go down to the grassroots of our culture, not to remain there, not to be isolated there, but to draw strength and substance there from, and with whatever additional sources of strength and material we acquire, proceed to set up a new form of society raised to the level of human progress.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, as quoted in Osei Amoahs A Political Dictionary of Black Quotations, published in London, 1989. To take part in the African revolution it is not enough to write a revolutionary song: you must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, as quoted in Osei Amoahs A Political Dictionary of Black Quotations, published in London, 1989. At sunset when you pray to God, say over and over that each man is a brother and that all men are equal.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, as quoted in Robin Halletts, Africa Since 1875, University of Michigan Press, 1974. We have told you bluntly, Mr President, what the demands of the people are ... We have one prime and essential need: our dignity. But there is no dignity without freedom ... We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©s statement to General De Gaulle during the French leaders visit to Guinea in August 1958, as quoted in Robin Halletts, Africa Since 1875, University of Michigan Press, 1974. For the first twenty years, we in Guinea have concentrated on developing the mentality of our people. Now we are ready to move on to other business.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©. as quoted in David Lambs The Africans, New York 1985. I dont know what people mean when they call me the bad child of Africa. Is it that they consider us unbending in the fight against imperialism, against colonialism? If so, we can be proud to be called headstrong. Our wish is to remain a child of Africa unto our death..Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, as quoted in David Lambs The Africans, New York 1985. People of Africa, from now on you are reborn in history, because you mobilize yourself in the struggle and because the struggle before you restores to your own eyes and renders to you, justice in the eyes of the world.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, as quoted in The Permanent Struggle, The Black Scholar, Vol 2 No 7, March 1971. [T]he political leader is, by virtue of his communion of idea and action with his people, the representative of his people, the representative of a culture.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, as quoted in Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh Asantes African Culture the Rhythms of Unity: The Rhythms of Unity Africa, World Press, October 1989. In the history of this new Africa which has just come into the world, Liberia has a preeminent place because she has been for each of our peoples the living proof that our liberty was possible. And nobody can ignore the fact that the star which marks the Liberian national emblem has been hanging for more than a century -- the sole star that illuminated our night of dominated peoples.Ahmed Sà ©kou Tourà ©, from his Liberian Independence Day Address of 26 July 1960, as quoted in Charles Morrow Wilsons Liberia: Black Africans in Microcosm, Harper and Row, 1971.

The Causes of Poor Productivity Within Large Organizations

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Empirical Analysis of Noncompetition Clauses †MyAssignmenthelp

Question: Discuss about the Empirical Analysis of Noncompetition Clauses. Answer: Introduction: A non-compete clause in a contract prohibits an employee from engaging themselves in any other company which is in competition with the present work place of the employee (Bishara, Martin Thomas, 2015). Employers require employees to sign non-compete clauses to prohibit them from divulging trade secrets or entering into any competition with them after their termination. In the present case, DCS is a sanitation management company, which had sued three of its former employees for breach of non-compete clause which was overturned by the district court. The factor the court took into consideration was that the clause had expired a year ago and the court allowed the summary judgment in favour of the employees because according to Nebraska law there has been no breach of contractual obligations. The court denied the claims of DCS in applying for temporary injunction and also supported a grant of summary judgment in favour of the employees. The court opined that the laws if Nebraska will apply because it will take care of the fundamental rights of the employees. The court held that though the agreement mandated the applicable law to be Ohio, Nebraska has more interest materially in the subject matter and therefore Ohio law was not in consonance with Nebraska Law and applying the same would fundamentally violate the authenticity of Nebraska Law (Cihon Castagnera, 2017). The agreement clearly mentioned that Ohio law will apply whereas the court had applied Nebraska Law because that law is more materially related to the agreement and applying the same has more material connection without having to breach the fundamental rights of the employees (Marx, Singh Fleming, 2015). The court held that Nebraska gives more emphasis on the parties rights and having a broader ambit, Nebraska law will have an ethical bearing on the agreement. Reference Bishara, N. D., Martin, K. J., Thomas, R. S. (2015). An empirical analysis of noncompetition clauses and other restrictive postemployment covenants management.Vand. L. Rev.,68, 1. Cihon, P. J., Castagnera, J. O. (2017). Employment and labor law (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. Marx, M., Singh, J., Fleming, L. (2015). Regional disadvantage? Employee non-compete agreements and brain drain.Research Policy,44(2), 394-404.