Apartheid Quotes · Page 3

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

— Zola Budd

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

— Oliver Tambo

I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.

— P. W. Botha

Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

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

— Al Sharpton

The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always…

— Hugh Masekela

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

— Dervla Murphy

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

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

— Nelson Mandela

'Sizwe' is the beginning of protest theatre; 'Nothing But The Truth' is post-apartheid South Africa.

— John Kani

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in…

— Ruth First

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

— Nelson Mandela

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid…

— Jacob Zuma

When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything…

— St. Lucia

I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating…

— Lisa Madigan

There has been no more principled opposition to racism than Jeremy Corbyn: he was getting arrested for protesting against Apartheid when the…

— Ken Loach

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We…

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

— Trevor Noah

I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in…

— Michelle Alexander

The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled…

— Maryam Namazie

“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Amala Akkineni

Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it…

— Vittorio Arrigoni

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

— Bob Hawke

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

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

— David Lammy

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

— Ephraim Mirvis

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

— Murtala Mohammed

Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

— Danny Glover

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

— Yannick Noah

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

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

— Henry Rollins

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

— Nelson Mandela

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

“The Apartheid system has systematically infiltrated the struggle and eliminating our heroes, and chose their own preferred candidates to lead us”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“We live in a state of economic apartheid. The laws are there to protect the the haves from the have-nots.”

— C.J. Stone

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

— Desmond Tutu

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were…

— F. W. de Klerk