I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm…

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

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

— Barbra Streisand

People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid…

— Assata Shakur

I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the…

— Cleve Jones

The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse…

— Mel White

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of…

— Wilbur Smith

But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few…

— Kanye West

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about…

— Nelson Mandela

We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there…

— Bob Hawke

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

— F. W. de Klerk

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

— David Lammy

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

— Kevin Anderson

If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create…

— Oliver Tambo

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't…

— Athol Fugard