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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence. "

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

" Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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? "