America Quote by Breyten Breytenbach

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the…

— Breyten Breytenbach

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of…

— Breyten Breytenbach

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

— Breyten Breytenbach

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

— Breyten Breytenbach

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in…

— Breyten Breytenbach

The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the…

— Breyten Breytenbach

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America,…

— Breyten Breytenbach

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

— Breyten Breytenbach

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

— Breyten Breytenbach

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

— Breyten Breytenbach

“And gradually we will rot like old ships or trees But keep Pain far from Me o Lord”

— Breyten Breytenbach

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though…

— Breyten Breytenbach