Mamphela Ramphele Quotes

• The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Black, Female, Racist

  Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Attitude, Levels, Creatures

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• South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Opportunity, People, Way

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