South Quotes

• Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Favors, Should

  Los Angeles Times, letter to the editor by L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley, May 13, 1985.

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• Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Axes, Long

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• In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Children, Rights

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• It's north and south pole. When you win you feel great, but when you lose it, it's like you've lost 10 games in a row.

  Lindy Ruff

  Winning, Games, Like You

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• As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Technology, Hair, Korea

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.

  Colin Quinn

  Japan, Europe, America

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• You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

  Mike Quade

  Baseball, Fans, Apathy

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• It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.

  Buddy Rice

  Winning, Race, Car

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• As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

  John Shelton Reed

  Long, Tourists

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• The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

  John Shelton Reed

  Southern, Looks, Stereotype

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• Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

  John Shelton Reed

  Writing, Mean, Phoenix

  John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.5, University of Missouri Press

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• I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

  John Shelton Reed

  Nice, Successful, Thinking

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• If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

  John Shelton Reed

  Race, Care, Poor

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• I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

  Richard Roeper

  Chicago, Parks, Grew Up

  "Meet a Critic: Richard Roeper". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

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• You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

  Octavia Spencer

  Grateful, Relevant, Knows

  "The Help ‘s Octavia Spencer: 'You Have to Know and You Have to Be Educated'". Interview with Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.

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• In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Men, Names, California

  Interview with Colleen Long, onlineathens.com. October 31, 2003.

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• In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  People, Towns, Make The Best Of It

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• Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Ideas, People, Rural Life

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• Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Discovery, Australia, Copper

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Bridges, Australia, Wealth

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

  Charles Sturt

  Climate, Wool, Soil

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.20

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• The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

  Charles Sturt

  Believe, Years, Climate

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.1

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• It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

  Janet Suzman

  Fighting, Ideas, Differences

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• I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

  Kim Young-sam

  Thinking, Issues, Korea

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• I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

  Kim Young-sam

  Sorry, Two, Police

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