Apartheid Quote by Jonathan Kozol Download Open image “Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.” — Jonathan Kozol ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apartheid Bad weather Conditions Weather
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on… — John Deacon 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
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
Apartheid is a lie, people can work together, people can create together. — John Kani Copy Share Image
It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school—and to the public school… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that Puerto Rican… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't… — Jonathan Kozol 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