Best Apartheid Quotes
121 Apartheid quotes by 82 unique authors
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If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the…
— Nelson Mandela
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In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In…
— John Pilger
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The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to…
— Vandana Shiva
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
— Oliver Tambo
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I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no…
— George Galloway
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Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
— Edward Heath
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid,…
— Edward Said
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Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.
— Unknown Author
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Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to…
— Steven Biko
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Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.
— Olof Palme
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Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and…
— Ruth First
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The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.
— Hendrik Verwoerd
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In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)…
— Philip Gourevitch
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Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away.…
— Vittorio Arrigoni
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not…
— Hans Blix
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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 the…
— John Deacon
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A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them?…
— Zach Braff
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To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is…
— Nelson Mandela
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No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the…
— Silvan Shalom
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During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans,…
— Nelson Mandela
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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s…
— Michelle Alexander
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black…
— Michelle Alexander
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In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce.…
— Noam Chomsky
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HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.
— Philip Appleman
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