“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."” ThinkingWantKindDoneRememberGivenPracticeHappenedLandHolySouthIsraelPalestinianSouth AfricaApartheidBeing DoneAnti SemiticHoly LandCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.” PeopleIfsKnowsAmericaUsedWatchesHappenedHappeningsDevilSouthPossessionRacistPriestsPossessedDocumentariesSatanicSouth AmericaCentral America Author:Chuck Klosterman
“One of the first big bubbles, of course, was the huge and horrible South Sea Bubble in England. And the aftermath was interesting. Many of you probably don't remember what happened after the South Sea Bubble, which caused an enormous financial contraction, and a lot of pain. They banned publicly traded stock in England for decades.” FirstsBigsPainRememberCoursesInterestingHappenedSeaHugeEnglandSouthFinancialDecadesEnormousHorribleBubblesBannedAftermathContractions Author:Charlie Munger
“I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.” KindHappenedGrewGrew UpEuropeBlessedSouthFarmsSouth Africa Author:Candice Swanepoel
“Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had it happened in the West Indies, as it has - you must remember that within fifty years of Columbus's arrival, only the bones remained of the people called the Arawaks, with one or two of them in Spain as specimens. Had the Holocaust committed under the Nazis happened somewhere else, we wouldn't be talking about it the way we talk about it.” PeopleWayYearsTwoAmericaRememberTalkingHappenedWestSouthCommittedBonesFiftyHolocaustNaziSpainSomewhere ElseCongoArrivalsColumbusSouth AmericaWest IndiesTahiti Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them. A key difference is Abyei is contested territory. We still do not know whether Abyei is going to belong to the new country of South Sudan or effectively the new country of Sudan, the northern part. That was supposed to be decided by a referendum in January; that referendum never happened, so it was being dealt with through political negotiations.” ThinkingKnowsStillsTwoDifferentCountryPoliticalDifferencesHappenedKeysDecidedSouthSupposed To BeRelatedTwo ThingsTerritoryNegotiationJanuaryDynamicsReferendumsSudan Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.” ThinkingWayBreakHappenedDegreesEnglandSouthFinalsPsychologicalOccasionsBritainGreat BritainNew England Author:Charles R. Morris
“Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.” WellsLooksStillsProblemHappenedMiddleUnionsSouthEastDecadesFormerSovietMiddle EastSouth AfricaSoviet UnionBreakthroughSetbackUnthinkable Author:Dalai Lama