Apartheid Quotes · Page 4

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of…

— Nelson Mandela

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were…

— Malik Bendjelloul

Let us not forget where our parents fought for, but lets focus on our own struggle, jobs, success, etc

— Isaac Hlungwana

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

— Moshe Sharett

Protest theater has a place again. It's not against whites or apartheid. It is against injustice and anything that fails our people.

— John Kani

The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is…

— Hendrik Verwoerd

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

— Desmond Tutu

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

— Oliver Tambo

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight…

— Teresa Heinz

The question of Israeli apartheid was anathema a decade ago. Now it's even talked about by top Israeli officials, who say -…

— Phyllis Bennis

The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.

— Nelson Mandela

Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire…

— Oliver Tambo

In America we talk about South Africa, but I tell people that apartheid is nothing compared to what is happening in my…

— Fela Kuti

With hindsight, it is easy to understand why Nelson Mandela became a heroic symbol to an entire generation as he used his…

— Jim Kerr

Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that.…

— Caster Semenya

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it…

— Nelson Mandela

I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a…

— Charlize Theron

The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was…

— Edd Doerr

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

— George Galloway

Already there exists a growing international concern that Israel has become "an apartheid state" pursuing policies manifesting a "settler colonial" mentality. Such…

— Richard A. Falk

In this time, we incorporate money and media, and it's split up like apartheid, where when you say "hip-hop," you think just…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and…

— Ryan Shapiro

How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy…

— Oliver Tambo

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars…

— John Pilger

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

— Danny Glover

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my…

— Nelson Mandela

Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.

— Mary Jane Patterson

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial…

— Thabo Mbeki

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

— Omar Suleiman

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

— Patrice Motsepe

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

— Nadine Gordimer

Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

— Oliver Tambo

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

— Trevor Noah

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

— Audre Lorde

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

— Oliver Tambo

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

— P. W. Botha

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

— Nadine Gordimer

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Thabiso Monkoe