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

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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. "

" The apartheid system renounces no violence. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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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