Joe Slovo Quotes
We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.
Slovo, Joe. Quoted in Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, vol. 2, Macmillan, 1998.
The nation was in the midst of a major steel strike and the President felt that the steel companies had reneged on their promises:
He was criticizing the George W. Bush administration for attacking Iraq, a country which had not attacked the United States or Americans abroad while America did not attack those terrorists and countries which had killed Americans. For example, Hezbollah which blew up the Marine Barracks in Lebanon and the naval ship Cole.
Joe Slovo was a South African politician, and an opponent of the apartheid system. A Marxist-Leninist, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the South African Communist Party (SACP), a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a commander of the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).