Apartheid Quote by Hugh Masekela Download Open image “Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.” — Hugh Masekela ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apartheid Freedom Freedoms Music People
When I was a kid, pre-1994 was still apartheid, so we didn't get a lot the subversive music from the States or from the… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
There were a lot of anti-apartheid rallies and marches and concerts that we would go to as a family. And music was a big… — Goapele Copy Share Image
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid. That's the… — Letta Mbulu Copy Share Image
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… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for. — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and… — Letta Mbulu Copy Share Image
I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black. Whether you… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
In some townships, political parties are run by thugs financed from Cape Town. If we don't have support of the police, we can not… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period. — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
I couldn't get away from the gramophone. It was the only thing that I ever really liked, and I was singing along by the… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born. — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it. — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things that could really happen to Africa is for us to get rid of the borders and for the leadership… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
I try not to get too political. But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem, and there was lots of inequality,… — Kevin Anderson Copy Share Image
I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it. — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
![“We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren't working; they were just being busted. And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an…” quote by Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/66c/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_we-with-brian-mulroney-and-rajiv-gandhi_109260.jpg)
