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" 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. "

Oliver Tambo

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" We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa. "

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

" We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. "

" 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? "

" I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans. "

" 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. "

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

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" To go back means defeat. "

Oliver Tambo

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

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare. "

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

" The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime. "

" We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters. "

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

" I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well. "

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

" 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. "

" The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back. "

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" Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black? "

" The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us. "

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Apartheid

Will

" We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims. "

" We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. "

" In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted. "

" I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner. "

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

" The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary. "