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Apartheid Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
- South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.
- 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…
- 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…
- Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made…
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