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Apartheid Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
- We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with…
- I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
- It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
- We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come:…
- What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not…
- I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the…
- In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God,…
- I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
- In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use…
- The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after…
More Apartheid Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have… — Naomi Campbell
- Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela
- Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer. — Audre Lorde
- We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil. — Desmond Tutu
- We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is… — Desmond Tutu
- We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them… — Muhammad Yunus
- How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But… — Thabo Mbeki
- We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying… — Theodor Herzl
- "We seem to have thought of everything - except the Arabs" — Judah Leon Magnes
- If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming — Ahad Ha'am