No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not…

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the…

— Desmond Tutu

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the…

— Barbara Amiel

I don't say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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

— Oliver Tambo

I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have lived through…

— Patrick Stewart

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