Apartheid Quotes - Page 3

• Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

  Steven Biko

  Evil, Petty

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

  Silvan Shalom

  Children, Parent, Berlin

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• I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Humility, People

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Long Walks, Dare

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• Criminality is always the result of poverty.

  Jacob Zuma

  Poverty, Results, Multicultural

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

  Lawrence Wright

  Religious, Loss, Rivers

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• The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

  Desmond Tutu

  Yesterday, People, Looks

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Alive, United States, Progressive

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

  Susan Rice

  Believe, Years, Burden

  "Road to Riches". Interview with Mishal Husain, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2003.

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• My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

  Helen Suzman

  Years, Careers, Numbers

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• Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Men, Resolution

  Statement from prison, 10 Feb. 1985

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• After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Long Walks, Climbing

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• If we don't move forward with regard to creating a non-racial society in South Africa and we allow this legacy of apartheid to persist, these divisions between black and white in wealth and income and so on, in the future you would indeed have an ugly upheaval.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Moving, Black And White, Creating

  Source: www.nelsonmandela.org

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• Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Weather, Doe, Happens

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• If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

  Ahad Ha'am

  Israel, Wish, Judaism

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• It always seems impossible until its done.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

  Nelson Mandela

  Freedom, Distance, Taken

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Equality

  Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964

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• Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away. My hope is to see it replaced, without any bloodshed, with a democratic, secular and lay state – for example on the borders of historic Palestine – and where Palestinians and Israelis could live under equal rights of citizenship without ethnic and religious discrimination. It's a wish that I hope will soon become a reality.

  Vittorio Arrigoni

  Religious, Reality, Rights

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• Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

  Clare Short

  Israel, States, Originals

  "The Israel-Bashing Club" by Daniel Schwammenthal, www.wsj.com. September 03, 2007.

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• The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

  Kate O'Regan

  Vision, Colonialism, Poverty

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

  Dervla Murphy

  Clouds, Air, Racism

  Dervla Murphy (2001). “South From the Limpopo”, p.55, The Overlook Press

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• Jews allow to steal lands from Palestinians, only because they are Jews, and those are Palestinian. I want to repeat it, because people here in America don't believe it. We have a new law that settlers allowed to steal private lands of Arabs and take it to Jews. This is an official law. And now they're going to ban everyone who criticize a pure apartheid law. So, in a way, it's horrific. It's only everyone who stand for civil right in the minimum level - liberals, not radical - is not allowed to Israel.

  Udi Aloni

  Believe, Israel, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.

  Mel White

  Christian, Children, Gay

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