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Oliver Tambo
Oliver Tambo
South African Politician
Born: Oct 27, 1917
Died: Apr 24, 1993
Africa Apartheid People South Africa White Will
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The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property. Oliver Tambo
Property People Practice Ownership Farm No-One Shared Sharing Nobody Concept Cattle Private Owned Common Which Central Communal Land By The People
The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women. Oliver Tambo
Struggle Surrender Women Oppression Conservative Country Submission Our Weaker Structures Part Primitive Attitudes Also Equally Because Within Imposed Movement Conquer
I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare. Oliver Tambo
Politics Me Woman Heart Single White See Kitchen Road Clearly Employer Involvement Ultimate South South African Quite African Fort Assault Event Her Hare
My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans. Oliver Tambo
Youth People Problem South Africa Pressures Cheap Goods Forced Calling South South African Governments Labor Africa African Convince
For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville. Oliver Tambo
Until Decades Violence Resisted
You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city. Oliver Tambo
Best You Animal Guard Distance Station City Constantly Park Beasts Prey Had Like Within Were Five Jungle Short Experienced Wanted Your Full Miles Tolerated Peter Gates
Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that. Oliver Tambo
Our Negotiations System About Compromise End Target Apartheid
Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid. Oliver Tambo
Character Genocide Will South Africa Criminal Says System Deteriorate Blacks Only Know Does South Situations Represents Africa Apartheid Sanctions Whoever
The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary. Oliver Tambo
You Pressure More Without Less Internal Necessary Bring
The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us. Oliver Tambo
Will Apartheid Sanctions Us
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. Oliver Tambo
Society Seek Democratic Create United
We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts. Oliver Tambo
We Cannot Color Retain Concept Concepts Because Got End Move Cannot Apartheid Race Away
Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence. Oliver Tambo
Practice Apartheid Inherently Violence
Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be. Oliver Tambo
Must Either Apartheid
To go back means defeat. Oliver Tambo
Defeat Back Go Means
If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response. Oliver Tambo
Will Pressures Response Maintain Along Which Apartheid Then Create Necessary Violence Violent
The apartheid system renounces no violence. Oliver Tambo
System Apartheid Violence
Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans. Oliver Tambo
Country Our Ourselves Citizens See Like Fellow Fellow Citizens African Them Whites Belong
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. Oliver Tambo
Destruction Would Economic Advantages Sooner Countries Permit Than May Apartheid Brings
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa. Oliver Tambo
World South Africa Believe Too Striking Destroy Economy Firstly South Africa Apartheid
We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters. Oliver Tambo
Good Mother Brothers Brothers And Sisters Good Terms Terms Were Up Very Sisters Children Grew Lucky
In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before. Oliver Tambo
School Before Way Cross Never Had Studying Like Came Done Holy
My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around. Oliver Tambo
Healing People Sister Own Ailment Back Those Some Brought Fact Recovered Had Healed She Around Go Prayed Been Get In Fact Grew Place Sent Evangelist Traveling Suffered Her Right
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student. Oliver Tambo
Education Time History Achievement Class Made Degree Rare First South Africa Joe Results Student Students Had First Class First Time Passed South Any Africa The History Of African Regarded Two
The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime. Oliver Tambo
Minimal Regime Apartheid Next Violence Associated
Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt. Oliver Tambo
Communism Those Hunt Seek Entire Divert Attention Witch Also Issue Perpetuate False American Send Want Apartheid Public American Public Your Who
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