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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts. "

" 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. "

" To go back means defeat. "

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" 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? "

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

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Studying

Done

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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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Back

Stand Up

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

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

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

" The apartheid system renounces no violence. "

" 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. "

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