South Africa Quotes - Page 14

• The point we are making is that the general global messages have been communicated, about the politics of South Africa, about the economy in general, all of these general questions. The rest of the world understands these things and are saying, let's now come to the specific things so that even we, as big corporate chiefs from around the world, can assist in these areas, which you have decided are your priority areas.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Priorities, Messages, World

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Stars, Dark

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

  Steven Biko

  Time, Faces, Black Consciousness

  "I Write What I Like (White Racism and Black Consciousness)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.

  Jeremy Cronin

  War, Party, Years

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• I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

  Miriam Makeba

  One Day, Looks, Obstacles

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• The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon making inquiry, I found all the gold and diamond mines of South Africa were owned by Jews; that Rothschild controlled gold; Samuels controlled silver, Baum controlled other mining, and Moses controlled base metals. Anything these people touch they inevitably pollute.

  Henry Hamilton Beamish

  War, Mean, Years

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• We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Collected Works”

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• South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

  Thabo Mbeki

  White, Criminals, Example

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• I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.

  Joe Slovo

  Thinking, Community, Judgement

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• It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

  Joe Slovo

  Thinking, Ordinary, Alternatives

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• Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa.

  Edward Said

  Justice, Balance, Campaigns

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• South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.

  Dave Matthews

  Real, Long, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Men, Good Man

  Source: www.mott.org

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• There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ideas, Issues, People

  Source: www.mott.org

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• South Africa is regarded as being an extraordinarily important country - not just for South Africa, but for Southern Africa, for the BRICS, working now in a new way in which power is becoming more shared - thankfully.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Southern, Important

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• I want people to understand that, look, we're in a period of democratic deficit, democratic recession. There are fewer democracies in the world today than in 2005, and in many of the countries that are still technically democracies, we're seeing a reduction in the rule of law. And that's especially true in Central Europe, but it's also true of places like South Africa, the Philippines.

  David Frum

  Country, Europe, Law

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I don't like a bipolar or a unipolar world. I like a multipolar world but on many occasions people have been surprised that South Africa has not seemed, internationally as well as internally, to take a decision that affirms the true values of your Constitution and the vision of those who were there at the beginning - Madiba himself and others.

  Mary Robinson

  People, Decision, Bipolar

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

  Malcolm X

  Practice, Differences, America

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• I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Want, Messages

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Able, Riches

  Associated Press Interview, www.aparchive.com. July 19, 2008.

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• That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.

  Jacob Zuma

  Numbers, Foreigners, South

  "South Africa Xenophobic Attacks" with Michel Martin, kccu.org. February 25, 2017.

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• There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

  Laila Lalami

  Writing, Matter, Return

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe. The matter of who governs the people of South Africa is in the hands of the people of South Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hands, Zimbabwe, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The inaction of the international community towards Guatemala is injustifiable. The community should play an active role with concrete measures and sanctions imposed, as was the case in South Africa, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Cuba and Haiti. Why for us no? Why legalize death in one place and somewhere else no? This is clear in our memories.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Memories, Iraq, Somewhere Else

  Source: www.indians.org

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• If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people, mainly Communists, were killed by General Suharto, who was backed by the CIA, in South Africa, in the US Civil Rights Movement - or even now, it's very disturbing. They have always worked closely with the US State Department.

  Arundhati Roy

  Latin, America, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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