Apartheid Quote by Bob Hawke

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said,…

— Bob Hawke

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

I led the fight here against apartheid as President of the ACTU, including particularly the Springbok tour in 1971. And that led to the…

— Bob Hawke

I was a senior leader within the Movement for Democratic Change. I had a farm that was under the Zimbabwean Investment Center, which gave…

— Roy Bennett

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

— Danny Glover

I hadn't fought enough for the injustice of the Apartheid.

— Arnon Milchan

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was…

— Gail Kelly

Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We've had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead…

— Amitabh Bachchan

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

— Bob Hawke

I ran for parliament in 1980 as an independent against Allan J. MacEachen.

— Elizabeth May

Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

— Bob Hawke

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

— Mahathir Mohamad