Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I…

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the…

— Dacia Maraini

“In one of her letters she writes: Some have questioned the appropriateness of talking about such matters as metta (loving-kindness) and thissa (truth) in…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around…

— Bernie Sanders

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

— Yahya Jammeh

“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron that recent…

— Justin Cartwright

Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the…

— Roger Rees

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it…

— Athol Fugard

No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its…

— Michelle Alexander

“To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to…

— Peter Singer

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

— Noam Chomsky

We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the…

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Nadine Gordimer

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts…

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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