Beginning Quote by John Kani

Protest theater has a place again. It's not against whites or apartheid. It is against injustice and anything that fails our people.

— John Kani

Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that…

— John Kani

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

— Peter Brook

If we'd lived in England or America we'd have told stories abut our lives and nobody would have called it protest theatre. But the…

— John Kani

“On April 1, armed SA men took up positions in front of Jewish businesses and tried to prevent customers from spending money in them.…

— Rudolph Herzog

“In almost every successful social movement of the last century, from Gandhi's campaign against British rule to the Solidarity movement in Poland to the…

— Barack Obama

'A Just Defiance' has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal…

— Justin Cartwright

“Our unhappy trek through the wreck of the New South Africa begins with the facts, nothing but the facts.”

— Ilana Mercer

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones...

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how…

— Miriam Makeba

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change happens. It's…

— Tony Benn

The question of Israeli apartheid was anathema a decade ago. Now it's even talked about by top Israeli officials, who say - they differ…

— Phyllis Bennis