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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" To go back means defeat. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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