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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student. "

" 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. "

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

" Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt. "

" 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. "

" 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 popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization. "

" It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were. "

" 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. "

" The apartheid system renounces no violence. "

" Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that. "

" 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? "

" To go back means defeat. "

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

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

" 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? "