Oliver Tambo Quotes

While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

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

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

At the end of the day, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

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.

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

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.

Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestly claim there is any kind of parity.

The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

…In certain parts of Latin America, the seizure of the vast majority of the wealth by an oligarchy of owners bereft of social consciousness, the practical absence or the shortcomings of a rule of law, military dictators making a mockery of elementary human rights, the corruption of certain powerful officials, the savage practices of some foreign capital interests constitute factors which nourish a passion for revolt among those who thus consider themselves the powerless victims of a new colonialism in the technological, financial, monetary, or economic order.

Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.

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

Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.

There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.