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“We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.”

People May Government Used Winning Lost Sides Gun Holiness Apartheid Tibetan

Author:Desmond Tutu

“What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.”

Ifs Seems Lost Rights Happened Realising License Irresponsible Apartheid

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones.”

Hatred Bones Apartheid

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.”

Thinking Writing Years My Own White Deals Guilt Train South Drivers South Africa Blindness Writing Life Apartheid

Author:Athol Fugard

“I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.”

Grew Grew Up South Injustice Segregation Apartheid Racial Segregation

Author:Johnnetta B. Cole

“Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.”

“When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.”

People Facts Able Ready Awful Funny Things Like Something Apartheid Shattering

Book:I Didn't Come Here to Argue

Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue

“Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.”

States Originals Israel Apartheid

Author:Clare Short

“He [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.”

Trying Said Found Teacher Advice Talent Committees Assembly Good Advice Apartheid Good Teacher Tornadoes Submarines Great Talent General Assembly

Author:Miriam Makeba

“When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."”

Thinking Want Kind Done Remember Given Practice Happened Land Holy South Israel Palestinian South Africa Apartheid Being Done Anti Semitic Holy Land Checkpoints

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.”

People Persons Violence Achieve Revolution Labor South Strikes Resistance Peaceful Progressive South Africa American Revolution Apartheid Progressive Society

Author:Tom Morello

“apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.”

Stills Left Air Racism Clouds Chemicals Warfare Apartheid Poisonous Chemical Warfare

Book:South From the Limpopo

Source: South From the Limpopo

“The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).”

“I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.”

People World Country Home Felt Support Struggle Journey Moved Around The World Canada Warmth Apartheid My Journey Canada Day Canada Funny Canada Being Great Journey Home

Author:Desmond Tutu

“One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.”

Years Believe I Believe Burden Erase Apartheid

Author:Susan Rice

“The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].”

Years Wells Stills School Independent South South Africa Apartheid Spotlight Public Education Private School

Author:Charlayne Hunter-Gault

“My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.”

Years Artist Democracy Function Defined Eras Apartheid

Author:Athol Fugard

“As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.”

Young Weight South University South Africa Young Women Apartheid Johannesburg

Author:Teresa Heinz

“My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.”

Fighting White Teaching Prison My Time Resolve White Supremacy Apartheid Supremacy

Author:Nelson Mandela

“I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.”

Prison Hunger Strikes Oppression Organize Apartheid Hunger Strike

Author:Nelson Mandela

“America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.”

Believe Government America Politics Simple United Views Straightforward Apartheid

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong”

Way Humans Looks Law Doubt Commitment No Doubt Apartheid Human Love Love And Commitment

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.”

People Policy Conviction Opposing Apartheid

Author:P. W. Botha

“I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.”

Mean Said Cry Sick Tired Hollow Apartheid Parrots

Author:P. W. Botha

“People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the "whites only" signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.”

People Form Difficult Slavery Structure Mechanism Colonialism Imperialism Segregation Apartheid Racial Segregation

Author:Assata Shakur

“I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.”

People Believe Running Approach Jail Apartheid

Author:Nelson Mandela

“If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people.”

People Ifs Persons Country Easy Down And Including Innocent Convince Apartheid

Author:Nelson Mandela

“The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.”

Thinking Moving Social Consciousness Roles Example Movement Theater South South Africa Apartheid Social Movements

Author:Saul Williams

“Criminality is always the result of poverty.”

Results Poverty Apartheid Multicultural Criminality Crime Rates

Author:Jacob Zuma

“I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.”

Thinking Important Black Roles Support Movement Development Claims Trade Developing 80s Apartheid Strength Within

Author:Angela Davis

“I hadn't fought enough for the injustice of the Apartheid.”

Enough Injustice Apartheid

Author:Arnon Milchan

“The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.”

Ifs Kids Growing Up Growing Angry Eras Thrown Spokes Jail Apartheid Kids Growing Up

Author:Malik Bendjelloul

“With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.”

Long Walks Responsibility Dare Apartheid Long Walks Long Walk To Freedom Long Road

Author:Nelson Mandela

“The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.”

People Action Order Black White Democracy Security Mass Organization Majority South Campaigns Establishment Black And White South Africa Defiance Apartheid Peace And Security

Author:Nelson Mandela

“There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.”

Ends Political White Economic Fundamentals Inequality Our Society Monopoly Apartheid Political Power Economic Systems Restructuring

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.”

People World Want Believe Country Force Causes Effort Activity Gains Logic Regard Aim Israel Occupation Palestine Ruthless Settlement Apartheid Legitimacy Countries Of The World

Author:Mahmoud Abbas

“Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.”

“I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the face of Nazis, in the face of apartheid, that I would have joined those armies. But that's the last, last resort.”

Thinking War Lasts Faces Army Notion Nazi Resorts Apartheid Pacifist Just War

Author:Cornel West

“In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.”

Practice Opposites South South Africa Vicious Israeli Apartheid

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.”

Church Crosses Believer Entering Apartheid Abhorrence

Book:Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

“South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.”

“I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid. That's the way I learn.”

Way Young Artist Incredibles Apartheid Young Artists

Author:Letta Mbulu

“My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.”

Mother Parent My Own Consciousness Childhood Movement South South Africa Apartheid Emergence

Author:Rachel Holmes

“In general, Iranians believe that all Palestinians have the right to return home and that there is no chosen people on this earth, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian. Iran had the same policy towards apartheid South Africa and at the time when it was supporting and funding the ANC [African National Congress] among other groups in South Africa, these groups were also considered to be terrorist organizations by many western governments.”

People Believe Home Government Earth Christian Groups Policy Return Organization South Western Congress Terrorist Chosen Iran Palestinian South Africa Funding Apartheid

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was too subversive was basically banned. All the music that we got from outside of South Africa was the poppiest, least subversive music that you could get.”

World Stills Country Growing Up Growing South Artistic South Africa Apartheid Subversive Banned

Author:St. Lucia

“When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs in the States. I started noticing, as Apartheid's grip weakened, that we had more and more black kids at school; I had more and more black friends. But I never really saw a separation between myself and the black kids at school.”

Thinking States Kids School Felt Black White Saws Grew Grew Up Separation Noticing Suburbs Apartheid

Author:St. Lucia

“I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.”

World Stills Ends Reason Today Remember Term Subjects Periods Happenings South Around The World Variety Affected South Africa World Today Apartheid Negotiating Pertinent Peace Talks

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.”

People Made Difficult Issues Racism Prejudice South Observation South Africa Apartheid Racial Prejudice

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.”

Years Firsts Names Black Numbers Known Enemy Heard Media South Myth South Africa Secrecy Apartheid Rumours Public Enemies Madiba

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was a lot of lip service being paid to the need to stop this practice, but nothing was done.”

Needs Done Attitude Practice Paid South Lips Tolerate South Africa Apartheid Commonwealth Lip Service

Author:Mahathir Mohamad

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