Circumstances Quote by Bram Fischer

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

— Danny Glover

I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could.

— Simo Hayha

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

— Thomas Francis Meagher

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself…

— Dave Matthews

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

— Alexis Arguello

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably…

— E. W. Howe

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

— Jacob Zuma

My first introduction to South Africa's struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother's stead…

— Bernice King

As regards to personal safety, you do have to be careful not to put yourself at risk when travelling in South Africa. You don't…

— Wilbur Smith

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a…

— Bianca Jagger

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it…

— Athol Fugard

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or…

— Ahmed Ben Bella