South Africa Quotes - Page 21

• There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Home, Bread, Like You

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.

  Charlize Theron

  Culture, Feels, South

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia. However, if possible, the use of force is something to avoid except in cases where genocide is threatened, like Bosnia or Libya or with regimes that threaten our security, like the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Country, Mistake, Successful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

  Jillian Hervey

  Kind, South

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The DA is the only party in South Africa that has grown in every national election and that trend must continue, and it must accelerate, because South Africa is in a race against time to save our democracy.

  Helen Zille

  Party, Race, Democracy

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• In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Black, Population

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• There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Caring, Ubuntu

  Barack Obama's Remarks at the memorial service in Soweto to the former president of South Africa, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2013.

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• The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can ensure that each South African child, whatever the circumstances of their birth, inherits freedom they can use.

  Helen Zille

  Children, Issues, Political

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