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" I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job. "

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" The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa. "

" There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed. "

" It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized. "

" There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations. "

" How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work? "

" In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal. "

" My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans. "

" It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. "

" The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany. "

" Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it. "

" This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people. "

" Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans. "

" You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city. "

" The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an overlapping of membership all along the line. "

" To go back means defeat. "

" If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response. "

" It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true. "

" Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be. "

" Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid. "

" Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. "

" The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property. "

" The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. "

" My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around. "

" How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime? "

" The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system. "

" We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white. "

" It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required. "

" Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them. "

" Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence. "

" For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville. "