Alive Quote by Jonathan Kozol

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts…

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it…

— Justin Cartwright

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid…

— Thabo Mbeki

“Nelson Mandela so much believed in education-because he knew it lead us (social free)to political views different from the ones he implemented.”

— Nkosinathi Ngomane

In South Africa in 1987, apartheid was still going strong. Some of the most brutal race laws had been relaxed, but they hadn't yet…

— John Kani

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid…

— Teresa Heinz

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

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand,…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

— Oliver Tambo

“The Apartheid system has systematically infiltrated the struggle, eliminating our heroes, and choosing their own preferred candidates to lead us”

— Thabiso Monkoe

When I was in high school, it was sort of the peak of progressive education.

— Michael Penn

The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want…

— Steven Biko