Best Apartheid Sayings
121 Apartheid quotes by 82 unique authors
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There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical'…
— Tupac Shakur
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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very…
— Athol Fugard
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Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial…
— Nelson Mandela
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The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.
— Nelson Mandela
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Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.
— Omar Suleiman
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Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the…
— Bryan Adams
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Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral.…
— Walter E. Williams
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I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
— Desmond Tutu
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But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people…
— Kanye West
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In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations…
— Noam Chomsky
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My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a…
— William Kentridge
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid…
— Barbara Amiel
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
— Oliver Tambo
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Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation…
— Ruth First
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I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was…
— Athol Fugard
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
— Yannick Noah
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My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.
— Helen Suzman
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We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that…
— Nelson Mandela
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It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
— Desmond Tutu
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There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's…
— Lawrence Wright
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The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this…
— Nelson Mandela
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Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.
— Ted Nugent
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There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence…
— Mark Gevisser
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Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil
— Steven Biko
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