South Africa Quotes - Page 8

• With better education and affluence there have been more Egyptians interested in nature. There are now more Egyptian divers, desert safari enthusiasts and ecotourists - I know Egyptian who have traveled to Antarctica, Tanzania, South Africa and climbed the Himalayas. Now Egyptians are talking of wanting to explore and see more of their own country. I believe they too will fall in love with Egypt and will want to protect it. The revolution is a process, it will take time, but at least there is hope now!

  Mindy Baha El Din

  Country, Falling In Love, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Giving back has to do with the way I was brought up and the fact that I've traveled widely and seen terrible situations in the world. To sleep well at night, those of us who are in a position to help must address these situations. I'd get far greater satisfaction out of, say, walking into a hospital I'd built in South Africa than I would by sitting on a beach. I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to make a difference, and I don't want to waste that. I suspect I was also lucky to have parents who drove me from a young age.

  Richard Branson

  Beach, Sleep, Night

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• South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!

  Dennis Miller

  Clothes, Creating, Hey

  "The Dennis Miller Show", June 28, 2004.

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• We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have customers, they're going to continue to operate, whether or not we divest of their stock. However, divesting might be helpful in terms of disrupting the story that what these companies do is perfectly okay. This situation differs from apartheid in a key regard though: racial equality in South Africa was no threat whatsoever to capitalism as we know it. Ending the fossil fuel era is a much deeper change.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Long, Helpful, Isolation

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.

  Malcolm X

  Practice, Differences, America

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• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

  Arthur Ashe

  Brother, Names, Black

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• From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which were aimed at changing the very, very dehumanising aspects. Giving greater freedom of movement, giving private property ownership within so-called white South Africa also to blacks. Abolishing the concept of job reservation on the basis of race and colour. Allowing free organisation for trade unions, also black trade unions.

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Giving, Black, Ownership

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I've been typecast. People don't want to take a risk or a chance. Quite a few times they've come up to me and say "We want you to do that Russian accent." And I'll be like, "How about if I do an Irish accent or a South African accent," and they don't trust that you can properly pull them off.

  Scott Adkins

  People, Risk, Chance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Share, Resources

  Source: www.mott.org

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• What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.mott.org

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• My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I was going to say. There was no other choice.

  Wole Soyinka

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

  Christina Stead

  Drinking, Europe, Tea

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.419, The Miegunyah Press

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• Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

  Lee Ritenour

  Singers, South, Terrific

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• The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.237, Pan Macmillan

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• The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of African economies. The emphasis is on diversification. We have for many years - not just in South Africa but in many parts of the continent - spoken about beneficiation. And I think part of the secret, in relation to beneficiation, is you have got to make it attractive, profitable for the private sector - and it will take off. You may have to look at mechanisms like tax concessions... You will not have to worry about beneficiation if it makes commercial sense.

  Patrice Motsepe

  Thinking, Years, Oil

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• In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Children, Tree, Friendly

  "Q&A with Sesame Workshop Founder Joan Ganz Cooney". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. February 3, 2009.

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• As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.

  Teresa Heinz

  Weight, Johannesburg, Young

  Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.

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• The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn’t poor.

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  Government, Poor, South

  "Debriefing: Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma". Interview with Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites last time (in 2011) too but we played excellent cricket. Similarly this time, there are teams which play on those bouncy wickets like Australia and South Africa, and are probably bigger favorites than us. But we hope that with the type of resources we have we can do well.

  Waqar Younis

  Team, Play, Australia

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• The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  School, Independent, Years

  "Africa Update: Oprah Winfrey's Work with Schoolgirls". "New & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007".

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• I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.

  Nas

  America, Racism, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

  Susan Rice

  Example, Various, South

  "Road to Riches". Interview with Mishal Husain, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2003.

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• I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of organizations to which donors can give and claim tax deductions.

  Nelson Mandela

  Organization, Giving, Claims

  Source: www.mott.org

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• The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Black And White, Long

  Source: www.mott.org

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