Apartheid Quotes

Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.

— Hugh Masekela

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

— Ahad Ha'am

“Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.”

— Nelson Mandela

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

— Oliver Tambo

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

— Nelson Mandela

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

— Jacob Zuma

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

— Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil

— Steven Biko

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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

— F. W. de Klerk

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

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who…

— Silvan Shalom

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to…

— Nelson Mandela

If we don't move forward with regard to creating a non-racial society in South Africa and we allow this legacy of apartheid…

— Thabo Mbeki

As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going…

— Ehud Barak

I don't care if it's Saudi Arabia or if it's Israel or any other country. I can't imagine our members of Congress…

— Rashida Tlaib

Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was…

— Mahathir Mohamad

With the Cuban presence in Namibia it was possible to achieve the security and real freedom of that country and the end…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Noam Chomsky

“Her disease only reinforced how the world saw us: not black or white, not American or African, not poor or rich. We…

— Zinzi Clemmons

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

— Lawrence Wright

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

In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%)…

— Philip Gourevitch

“The Great Firewall (The Sonnet) 99% of the world's human rights violations are manufactured by the west, either directly or retrospectively. No…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Marjory Gengler (white American) to Mark Mathabane (black South African) in the late 1970s-- Marjory: Why don't blacks fight to change the…

— Mark Mathabane

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other. Apart hate, is what it…

— Trevor Noah

“for Falasteen the boy i adored at sixteen gifted me his keffiyeh feeling guilty for living when others were killed simply for…

— Kamand Kojouri

“The Union of South Africa divided the functionality of government between Cape Town and Pretoria. Cape Town was the Administrative Capital and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise