South Africa Quotes - Page 4

• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  Barbara Amiel

  Wall, Military, Latin

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• Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Wells, South

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• I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Artist, Used, Found

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  Oliver Tambo

  Believe, World, Economy

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• This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

  Helen Suzman

  Country, Teeth, States

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• In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Media, Years

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.57, Seven Stories Press

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• I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

  Dave Matthews

  Years, Guessing, Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home.

  Benni McCarthy

  Football, Home, Player

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• We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Development, Blame

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

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• It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

  Desmond Tutu

  Difficult, Apartheid, South

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• What is South Africa’s sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe?

  Jeremy Riddle

  Sound, Body, Christ

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• The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, Crops, Natal

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• Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen.

  Kinky Friedman

  Life, Caring, Worry

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• The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Ecosystems, Together, Three

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• The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

  Abdullah Ibrahim

  People, Mind, Problem

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• The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.

  Leslie Jamison

  Past, Years, Battle

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• I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

  Bruce Davison

  Two, People, Hiv

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• WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

  Steven Biko

  Ethos, Together, Building

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• My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid—the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.

  William Kentridge

  Mother, Father, Talking

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• South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

  Honor Blackman

  Beautiful, Country, Canada

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• I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

  Trevor Rabin

  Growing Up, Couple, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

  Adhir Kalyan

  Mom, Father, Home

  "Adhir Kalyan Discusses “Paul Blart” And His Unordinary Obsession with Jennifer Beals". Channel Guide Magazine Interview, www.channelguidemag.com. July 02, 2009.

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• In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

  Robert Ringer

  Jewels, Order, People

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• He just rubs people up the wrong way in a short space of time and, after he'd gone, one of the South African coaches there said to me in a thick Bok accent 'You see, Richard, what we have to put up with?'

  Richard Loe

  Space, People, Way

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• I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.

  Shane Warne

  Team, Mean, Thinking

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