Apartheid Quotes · Page 3

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones...

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I hadn't fought enough for the injustice of the Apartheid.

— Arnon Milchan

Now, myself, I'm not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation…

— Cornel West

I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil…

— David Lammy

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back…

— Nelson Mandela

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

— Noam Chomsky

Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.

— Remi Kanazi

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end…

— Oliver Tambo

In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem…

— Henry Rollins

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of…

— Lawrence Wright

I try not to get too political. But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem, and there was lots…

— Kevin Anderson

In America we talk about South Africa, but I tell people that apartheid is nothing compared to what is happening in my…

— Fela Kuti

With hindsight, it is easy to understand why Nelson Mandela became a heroic symbol to an entire generation as he used his…

— Jim Kerr

Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid…

— Gertrude Mongella

The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an…

— Nelson Mandela

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for…

— Saul Williams

The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex.…

— Steven Biko

I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there…

— Trevor Noah

There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as…

— Noam Chomsky

The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of…

— Thabo Mbeki

“We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone…

— Nelson Mandela

South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime…

— Noam Chomsky

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery,…

— Barbra Streisand

I grew up in the American South, the segregated South. Now we have a black man who is president. It was an…

— Lawrence Wright

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

— Desmond Tutu

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

— Alice Walker

We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

— Oliver Tambo

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

— Oliver Tambo

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination...

— Nelson Mandela

When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

— F. W. de Klerk

We want Nelson Mandela and the people of South Africa to know that we will stand shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip,…

— Ron Dellums

I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

The very point of Labor's Zionist program is to have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible!

— Yitzhak Navon

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

— Nelson Mandela

“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.”

— Nadine Gordimer

“The Apartheid system has systematically infiltrated the struggle, eliminating our heroes, and choosing their own preferred candidates to lead us”

— Thabiso Monkoe

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

— Kanye West