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The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.
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If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela
Beautiful
Dreams
Forgiveness
Goodness
South Africa
About
Could
Lead
Roads
Named
Also
Goal
South
Africa
Two
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
Jack Canfield
History
Rights
Courage
People
King
South Africa
Changes
Rights Movement
Nelson
Nelson Mandela
India
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
About
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Examples
Individual
Tide
Non-Violence
South
Up
Begin
Mandela
Africa
Movement
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Standing Up
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Needed
Luther
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
God
Rights
Evil
Country
South Africa
Human Rights
System
Classification
Struggled
Divided
Years
Denied
South
Same
Human
Africa
Children
Human Beings
Against
Apartheid
Them
Racial
Then
Many
Beings
Fundamental
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
J. M. Coetzee
Life
Love
Death
World
South Africa
Busy
Indifferent
Bleeding
Sore
Narrow-Minded
Israel
Lebanon
South
Ireland
Same
Africa
Wherever
Fanatics
Body
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.
Miriam Makeba
Truth
People
World
Political
South Africa
Everybody
Tell
Admit
About
My Truth
Wrong
Come
Know
Becomes
How
South
Did
Just
Africa
Where
Wanted
Anything
Apartheid
Then
Who
Lived
Now
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
Steven Biko
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Face
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Possible
Bestow
More
Shall
Greatest
South
Human
Africa
Human Face
Position
We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.
Steven Biko
Made
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South Africa
Relationships
Must
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Only
Know
Also
South
Inferior
Same
Human
Africa
Which
Realize
Prelude
Whites
Groups
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
Joe Slovo
Capitalism
South Africa
Exploitation
Difficult
Immediately
See
Sees
Between
Terms
Alternative
South
Link
Person
Africa
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
Socialist
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All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.
Athol Fugard
Life
You
Change
Yourself
My Life
South Africa
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Extraordinary
Spent
Out
Ring
Finding
Finding Yourself
Shadow
Having
Through
Take
Lifetime
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Nobody
Nobody Else
Like
Boxing
Gloves
Opponent
Been
South
Off
Get
Africa
Realising
Apartheid
Suddenly
Reinvent
This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible.
Justin Cartwright
Strange
Corruption
Crime
South Africa
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Possible
About
Seems
Stimulating
South
Offer
Africa
Anything
Anything Is Possible
Strange Thing
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