South Africa Quotes - Page 3

• As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

  Bob Hawke

  Sports, Should Have, Organisation

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Kids, Sneakers

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• Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.

  Simphiwe Dana

  Self, Effort, Who We Are

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• Since the start of the Ashes I have had a hectic workload. I've played almost every game, but I'm thinking that after South Africa and the Bangladesh series I can clock off for two or three months. It's like Friday afternoon for a guy who goes to work all week.

  Brett Lee

  Friday, Thinking, Games

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• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  Bai Ling

  Beautiful, Eye, Long

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2006.

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• GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Animal, Earthquakes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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• The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Black, United States

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press

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• No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid

  Michelle Alexander

  Country, Black, United States

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press

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• I did do an American pilot, but it wasnt shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called The Philanthropist, and it was for NBC.

  Dominique McElligott

  Nbc, America, Pilots

  "Dominique McElligott HELL ON WHEELS Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 5, 2011.

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• 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).

  Edd Doerr

  Government, Yugoslavia, White

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• Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.

  Bob Pettit

  African Tribes, Sick, Used

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• Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela - who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Communist Leaders, White

  "Limbaugh claims Dems' interest in Darfur is securing black 'voting bloc'". www.mediamatters.org. August 23, 2007.

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• Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Egypt, Pyramids

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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• In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

  Paul Tsongas

  Running, Taken, Simple

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• A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Evil

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• All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Mean, Apology, Doe

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• The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea.

  Antonio Guterres

  Country, Differences, Korea

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• I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent. There shall be many new challenges and opportunities ahead and I look forward to embracing them with great anticipation [on becoming the UK's high commissioner to South Africa]

  Paul Boateng

  Opportunity, Challenges, Roles

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• 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.

  Tom Morello

  People, Peaceful, Progressive Society

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Years, Comedy, Scene

  "Interview: Comedian Gabriel Iglesias For 'The Fluffy Movie'". Interview with Patrick McD, www.hollywoodchicago.com. July 24, 2014.

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• The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.

  Nelson Mandela

  Change, Destiny, Race

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Government, Moral Strength, Prison

  "Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators". Book by Riccardo Orizio, July 2, 2003.

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• It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

  Helen Suzman

  Answers, South

  "Helen Suzman, Relentless Challenger of Apartheid System, Is Dead at 91" by John F. Burns, Alan Cowell, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2009.

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• I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.

  Kandyse McClure

  Summer, Mom, School

  "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  School, Canada, South

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