Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guerrillas should now give up: The armed struggle has not gone on for the sake of hurting one another. It was for the sake of forcing our oppressor to accept majority rule. The most important thing is that we are getting that power we have been fighting for?to improve our constitution, improve our people, uplift them. We know that it is because of our children's sacrifice that we are in this position today, but these are the children of Zimbabwe, not Nkomo or Mugabe, and we want to welcome them back, not condemn them to go on fighting...
...keeping whites in Rhodesia: A lot of African countries have become banana republics because they tend to be emotional, to Africanize just for the sake of it. We are going to concentrate on a real prosperity for all. Some want us to regard these people who have been here for five generations as strangers because they are white. I would not want to be part of that meaningless independence. Ours will be an evolutionary process in which a black government will have to train itself, not in an emotional way and without causing friction...
...most inventive figurative artists at work today, and his ambition-to make the whole of modernist culture, literary, political and visual, available to painting as a subject-is a large brave one. "If some of us wish to practice art for art's sake alone, so be it," he wrote in 1976. "But good pictures, great pictures, will be made to which many modest lives can respond. When I'm told that good art has never been like that, I doubt it, and in any case it seems to me at least as advanced or radical to attempt...
...sake of our future, the future of our children, we shall fight. We don't want to be like the red Indians, and we will not be. Even in our exodus, in the harsh and tough life of our diaspora, after we had been kicked out of our homeland, we the Palestinian people have the highest percentage of educated people in this area. So we will not be red Indians...
...With one party versus another the focus could well become politics for politics sake and substantive achievement an occasional fluke. In a world of parties the incentive for rational discussion decreases and it often simply becomes an issue of counting votes or, at best, a behind-the-scenes horse trading compromise among the party leaderships...