South Africa Quotes - Page 6

• When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

  Desmond Tutu

  Tables, Cups, Crash

  The New York Times, January 3, 1985.

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• In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Government, Long

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• I went to South Africa - Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg - and those were definitely the "I've arrived" shows. Outside of the money, the success, the accolades ... This is a place that we, in urban communities, never dream of. We never dream of Africa. Like, "Damn, this is the motherland." You feel it as soon as you touch down. That moment changed my whole perspective on how to convey my art.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Dream, Art, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mandela didn't end Apartheid in South Africa, the poor guy was in jail for 27 years, it was the African people that ended it but he was a symbol of their struggle. Or Gandhi in India, Gandhi was a great believer in non-violence and he was in and out of jail, but India became free. I think it's better to look at what people can do collectively and that's why it's so important to encourage them.

  Tony Benn

  Struggle, Thinking, People

  Source: designermagazine.tripod.com

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• Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change happens. It's very important not to differentiate protest from the democratic process.

  Tony Benn

  Winning, Important, President

  Source: think-left.org

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• I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, School, Eight

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• Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Thinking, Islands

  "This much I know". Interview with Hilly Janes, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2003.

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• I grew up during apartheid; there was never a day in South Africa that was just great. I love that I've had success as an actor and producer, but I know the thing my children will know most about is the work I've done with HIV. Success in life is all about humanity.

  Charlize Theron

  Children, Humanity, Done

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Think bigger than society lets you think. And find mentors. My life is filled with people who knew me when I was 19 and had a horrible South African accent and bleach-blond hair and who believed in me in a way that was brutal. They were just unbelievable and consistent and smart. Find mentors who, every time you're with them, you're being schooled. Just absolutely schooled.

  Charlize Theron

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The BRIC countries - Brazil, India, China, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia even, and Russia - are now new actors. Over the last eight years, China multiplied by seven its economic presence and penetration in the Middle East. And if this happens on economic terms and there is a shift towards the East, the relationship between these countries and Israel is completely different from the United States. And it means that the challenges are going to be different, because China is not supporting Israel the way the U.S. are supporting Israel.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Mean, Years

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• When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!

  Ice Prince

  Games, People, Hip Hop

  Source: mobo.com

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• It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

  Desmond Tutu

  Blessing, Men, South

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• I know that in South Africa, we were in that space, and we're still suffering from that space. And that was where a government very successfully convinced the majority of a population that every single person there was blocking the other people from achieving greatness in the country, only to realize that we were all being oppressed at the same time. That's one of the biggest things. And I'm proud to say that.

  Trevor Noah

  Country, Block, Greatness

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual inhabitants of the dwelling.I was never on that piece of paper. I was always hidden. My grandmother would hide me somewhere if the police did show up. And it was a constant game of hide and seek.

  Trevor Noah

  Grandmother, Dwelling, Games

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that in fact the South Africans are there at the invitation of Britain, because Britain is hesitating to remove them. Hence there is a need for us to combine forces and demand through all political platforms, through all media, the withdrawal of South African troops and action, definite action, by Britain to get those South African troops out.

  Robert Mugabe

  Media, Political, Troops

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.

  Edward de Bono

  Fighting, Thinking, Lessons

  "Edward de Bono: 'Iraq? They just need to think it through'" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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• I don't even remember hearing about [Immorality Act of 1927]. I just knew about it. I was born into it, so I don't remember my parents ever saying it to me. I don't remember a conversation ever being had around this. I just knew this to be the law because that's what I was growing up in during that time in South Africa.

  Trevor Noah

  Growing Up, Law, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This is the Immorality Act of 1927.To prohibit illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives and other acts in relation thereto. Be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa as follows.

  Trevor Noah

  Kings, House, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

  Silvan Shalom

  Children, Parent, Berlin

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• I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a generation that suppressed people and lived under apartheid regimes. I don't know how you can come out of that and not have an awareness for the world. I think that if my life had turned out any other way and I was working in a bank, I would still feel this way about it, because there's a connection to humanity that to me is really important.

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African languages. So I speak Zulu. I speak Xhosa. I speak Tswana. And I speak Tsonga. And like - so those are my languages of the core. And then I don't claim German, but I can have a conversation in it. So I'm trying to make that officially my seventh language. And then, hopefully, I can learn Spanish.

  Trevor Noah

  Speak English, Trying, Dutch

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

  Roger Federer

  Heart, World, Spending

  "Federer's heart is in South Africa". Interview by Xola Potelwa, uk.reuters.com. February 22, 2013.

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• The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man. I mean that with no disrespect. I say that with great respect. I love them because I'm one of them. They are still people of the earth, but they are different. They still put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands. And when I kill an antelope for 'em, their preference is the gut pile.

  Ted Nugent

  Mean, Men, Hands

  "So NRA Board Member Ted Nugent Spews a Little Hate at Texas Inaugural Festivities: What Next, Dog Bites Man?" by Josh Sugarmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2007.

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• Peace cannot come without the engagement of those who have been before. Gen. Dostum will make peace possible. He was engaged in conflict of the past. Forgiveness is an extremely important part of our culture. But, like Rwanda and South Africa, we need to fashion our own solution.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Fashion, Past, Important

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

  Rose Bird

  Country, California, People

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