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Ethiopia

Hot winds and hunger cries--ethiopia
Flies in your babies eyes--ethiopia
Walking sticks on burning plains
Betrayed by politics
Abandoned by the rains
On and on--the human need
On and on--the human greed profanes
Ethiopia--ethiopia--ethiopia
Your top soil flies away--ethiopia
We pump ours full of poison spray--ethiopia
Between the brown skies and sprinkling lawns
I hear the whine of chain saws
Hacking rain forests down
On and on--insanities
On and on--short sighted greed abounds
Ethiopia--ethiopia--ethiopia
Little garden planet-oasis in space
Some hearts hurt--they can hardly stand it
Famine phantoms at the garden gates
Ethiopia--ethiopia--ethiopia

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song performed by Joni Mitchell
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Dedicated To Dr. W. H. Sheppard

[The returned missionary, who spent twenty years in Africa.]
On, on to the darkest continent,
As the Adriatic sailed,
In Eighteen Hundred and Ninety,
Many sad good-byes were wailed.
When two brave sons left their homes,
Their kindred, yea their blood,
To wade in Africa's unknown,
And overwhelming flood.
A caucasian and a negro,
United heart and soul,
Bound for Ethiopia's soil,
Yea Africa's distant goal.
As from the New York shore
The steamer slowly starts,
Sheppard and Lapsley bade good-bye
To sad but anxious hearts.
On, on, as the steamer glides,
'Mid the rippling water's whirl,
On to the wild and savage land,

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poem by Maggie Pogue Johnson
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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

quote by Bono
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02-04-2012 Brother I give you my answer for Black People African Sahara it mesmerizes the wise largest desert it is asked of we What is Africa is to me 3.3 million miles of grea

Brother I give you my answer
for Black People

African Sahara
it mesmerizes the wise
largest desert
it is asked of we
What is Africa is to me
3.3 million miles
of great desert
once a forest
once a great sea
once an empty hole
in space just waiting
to be that it can
birth the blackness
of who my mothers be
3.3 millions
you can not see it all
Trans Saharan trade

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poem by David E. Patton
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In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

quote by Jack Kingston
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

quote by Jack Kingston
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I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

quote by Abebe Bikila
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Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

quote by Richard Leakey
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Bernhardt

Bernhardt,
Come and show me the abilities of your love;
For i have learnt a lot from the book of lovers,
And like the sweet coffee from Ethiopia.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Freedom of sex

Neither Ethiopia nor Elder ado
Could give you the optimum pleasure
Like the place where consensual sex
Is neither shame nor a ban by law.
01.05.2007

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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