Apartheid Quote by Caster Semenya

The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black. Whether you…

— Thabo Mbeki

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones...

— J. R. R. Tolkien

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't…

— Athol Fugard

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

— Teresa Heinz

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them…

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Nelson Mandela

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't…

— Athol Fugard

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did…

— John Henrik Clarke

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on…

— John Deacon

I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

— John Kani

In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.

— Andre Gray