Peter Abrahams Quotes


The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.


Citations

Abrahams, Peter. Return to Goli. Faber and Faber, 1953, p. 17.

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Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams
  • Born: March 3, 1919
  • Died: January 18, 2017
  • Nationality:
  • Profession: Novelist, Journalist, Political Commentator

Peter Henry Abrahams Deras, commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. His death at the age of 97 is considered to have been murder.