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South Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- 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.…
- In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was…
- In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:…
- In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that…
- In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years.…
- By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
- The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
- In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
More South Quotes
- The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal… — Emily Greene Balch
- I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as… — Alan Ball
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. — Benazir Bhutto
- In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. — Steven Biko
- Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered… — Conrad Black
- I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I… — Lewis Black
- I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one… — Ben Affleck
- My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights… — Edward de Bono
- I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America. — Jeff Bridges
- Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a… — Jan Brewer
- Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my… — Louise Brown