Apartheid Quotes

Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.

— Ted Nugent

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil

— Steven Biko

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

— Jacob Zuma

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

— Yahya Jammeh

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

— Edward Heath

The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

— Oliver Tambo

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

— Zola Budd

Apartheid is a lie, people can work together, people can create together.

— John Kani

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Roger Rees

Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded…

— Murtala Mohammed

Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestly claim there is any kind of parity.

— Ephraim Mirvis

A 'township' in the U.S. is a small area. In South Africa it's a place designated for non-white people during the apartheid.

— Topaz Page-Green

I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new…

— Al Sharpton

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

— David Lammy

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you…

— Nelson Mandela

I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid.…

— Letta Mbulu

We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in…

— Vandana Shiva

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that…

— Athol Fugard

We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying…

— Theodor Herzl

In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core…

— Noam Chomsky

We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have…

— Desmond Tutu

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

Nelson Mandela, Dada Vaswani, Harsh Mander, Shabana Azmi - I admire their humanitarian work. But sadly even Nelson Mandela could not keep…

— Amala Akkineni

I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to…

— Bob Hawke

I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason…

— George Galloway

Mandela didn't end Apartheid in South Africa, the poor guy was in jail for 27 years, it was the African people that…

— Tony Benn

There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of…

— Mark Gevisser

My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew…

— William Kentridge

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

— Trevor Noah

We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that…

— Doris Lessing

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

— Justin Cartwright

“There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which…

— Frederick Douglass

I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

— John Kani

Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

— Clare Short

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

— Philip Appleman

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