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" 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. "

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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. "

Oliver Tambo

Movement

Africa

Want

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Oliver Tambo

See

Citizens

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

" We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all. "

" The apartheid system renounces no violence. "

" To go back means defeat. "

Oliver Tambo

Means

Defeat

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before. "

Oliver Tambo

Studying

Done

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oliver Tambo

Back

Stand Up

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

" The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women. "

" 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. "

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

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