South Africa Quotes - Page 16

• If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

  Michel Gondry

  Children, Boston, World

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dis-sented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.

  Dan Rather

  Tough Questions, People, Criticism

  "Veteran CBS News Anchor Dan Rather Speaks Out on BBC Newsnight Tonight". www.bbc.co.uk. May 16, 2002.

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• One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life.

  Chris Albrecht

  Opportunity, Water, World

  Source: collider.com

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• South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.

  Rudolph Straeuli

  Rugby, South

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• I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, Home, Fighting

  Nelson Mandela (1963*). “We Accuse: The Trial of Nelson Mandela”

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• The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Insanity, Would Be, Rehabilitation

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• The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! [...] The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government!

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Thinking, White, Government

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• It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Humorous, Law, Government

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• I think the TAC was just a disgrace, a disgrace not only to the [health] department but a disgrace to the whole country. But I think, as South Africa, we really demonstrated that we are doing pretty well.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Country, Thinking, Wells

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• I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Hiv, Want, Know How

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• South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Country, Giving, Health Workers

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• Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Soccer, Sports, Country

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• Today we are a nation at peace with itself, united in our diversity, not only proclaiming but living out the contention that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We take our place amongst the nations of the world, confident and proud in being an African country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Diversity, World

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• I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Blessed, Europe, Kind

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• I believe that here in South Africa, with all our diversities of colour and race; we will show the world a new pattern for democracy. There is a challenge for us to set a new example for all. Let us not side step this task.

  Albert Lutuli

  Believe, Race, Diversity

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• It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Speech, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Army, Psychics

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Organization, White, Population

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• In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Country, People, Life Is Like

  Source: progressive.org

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• I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

  Alan Paton

  Love, Peace, Pride

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• South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Blessed, Heart, Men

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• If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, White

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• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Determination, Believe, Self

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• Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
  
  [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

  Desmond Tutu

  Voice, Addresses, Foundation

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• Pick any player of the world. Make him the captain of India. I can assure you that the results will still be the same. MS Dhoni just not lucky enough to have the kind of bowlers that top teams like Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Player, Ms Dhoni

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