Apartheid Quote by Nelson Mandela

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

— Nelson Mandela

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

I hadn't fought enough for the injustice of the Apartheid.

— Arnon Milchan

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

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

— Danny Glover

I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years,…

— Achmat Dangor

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

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

When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid…

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

“As the British Empire fell, the Afrikaner rose up to claim South Africa as his rightful inheritance. To maintain power in the face of…

— Trevor Noah

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me…

— Cybill Shepherd