Damon Galgut Quotes

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

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

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.

The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

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.

Apartheid is often misunderstood. It could just as easily be understood a policy of good neighborliness.

In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.

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.

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

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

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

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

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

I don't say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of the ANC after 17 years.

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

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

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.

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

The apartheid system renounces no violence.

I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.