Apartheid Quotes

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid. F. W. de Klerk
Truth Made Other About Most Wrought Occasions Were Commission Front Which Apartheid Apology Injustices Profound
Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system. Greg Grandin
Health History Dark Black Think Thomas Thomas Jefferson Harriet System Black Americans Emerged Colonial Fact Smallpox Performed Documents His Times American In Fact Experimentation Experiments Apartheid Public Much Public Health Jefferson Washington Now Medical Present Slave Slaves
The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid. Hans Blix
War World Decision Cold Cold War Would Weapons Like Also Because Prove South End Did Any African Decided Apartheid Doubted Nuclear Nuclear Weapons
Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms. Hugh Masekela
Music People Impinge Freedoms Apartheid
Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates. Jacob Zuma
Democracy Change Experience Result Crime Poverty Criminality High Must Rates Through Develop Had Countries Pass Always Regime Apartheid Multicultural Now Fundamental Fundamental Change Necessarily Phase
Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions. Jonathan Kozol
Weather Bad Bad Weather Like Spontaneously Does Conditions Happen Apartheid
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it is a result of apartheid. Deliberately, black people were not allowed to know too much. They could read and write a bit to be useful, but that's about it. Justin Cartwright
Education People Result Problems Too Much Black Too Bit One Of The Problems About Deliberately Could Write Allowed Know Well Read Said Doing Were Very Shocking African Apartheid Much Useful Working-Class
'A Just Defiance' has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected. Justin Cartwright
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I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans. Lisa Madigan
Success Teacher Black South Africa Liberating Nelson Nelson Mandela Inspired Volunteer Witnessed Am His South Mandela Africa African Where Apartheid
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail. Malik Bendjelloul
Angry Kids Out Restricted Thrown Spoke Era Were Up Jail Against Apartheid Growing Growing Up
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not. Martha McSally
Hope National South Africa Think Other Our Soldiers Say Security Would Acceptable Were Cultural South American National Security Just Africa African African-American Deploy Apartheid American Soldiers Found Thing
The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us. Oliver Tambo
Will Apartheid Sanctions Us
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
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
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
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
People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid. Patrice Motsepe
People Black Know Were Years Very Apartheid Successful Businessmen
There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture is theirs, to take ownership of it, and enjoy the privileges of that, and those who are completely disfranchised, those - for example - who will never be taken to the theatre to see Shakespeare. Richard Eyre
Culture Theatre Will Example National Ownership Enjoy Society Our Those Kind Gulf See Brought Shakespeare Take Never Taken Feel Between Opening For Example Cultural Up Privileges Apartheid Who
Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history. Roger Rees
Me History South Africa Has-Been Seeing Excited Know Course Context Been South End Africa Apartheid Now
We want Nelson Mandela and the people of South Africa to know that we will stand shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, until apartheid is eradicated. Ron Dellums
People Will South Africa Nelson Nelson Mandela Know Until Hip Eradicated South Mandela Africa Want Apartheid Shoulder Stand
Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960. Ruth First
Law Area Write Study Policy Occupation Began African Apartheid Aside Workings Reserves Early Set
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