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Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. Miriam Makeba

Future Parenting Focus Girl Important Society Our Well-Being Mothers

'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario. Neill Blomkamp

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. Nelson Mandela

Peace People Intervention Seem Only Concerned Works Keen

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

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

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

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority. Steven Biko

Evil Arrogant Nothing Petty Assumption Both Majority Obviously Foreigners Clique Decide Grand Apartheid Justify Lives Right

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face. Steven Biko

Great World Gift Face Giving Great Gift More Come Look Industrial Powers Still Done May Wonders Human Africa Human Face

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that. Trevor Noah

Nature People Simple Comedy Word First Think Bonus Laugh Relevant Laughing Some About Purpose Comedians Make Issues Very Want Anything Them Deeper Socially

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord. Trevor Noah

Speak Mind Strike Never Goal Offend Person Intentionally Want Chord

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring. Yael Cohen

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. Alan Paton

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. Alan Paton

You Yourself Expedient Ask Right

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. Alan Paton

I am a fighter. I never give up. Caster Semenya

Never Give Up Fighter Give Never Am Up

I don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me. Caster Semenya

Me Possible Like Fame Prefer Profile

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally. Charlize Theron

Me Struggle Crime Sense States Punishment Moral Morally Rate Higher Countries Makes Question Than Which Capital Capital Punishment Much

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing. Charlize Theron

Happy People Married Get Get Married Want Who Thing

There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do. Charlize Theron

You Somebody Nothing Give Only Much Chance

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