Joe Slovo Quotes
You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.
Slovo, Joe. Quoted in Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Settlement by Allister Sparks, University of Chicago Press, 1995, p. 122.
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In this case, he was referring to the situation with the Barbary Pirates who had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. Jefferson favored and authorized war—a naval attack which for many reasons the European nations had not done (they just paid the tribute). Then a peace treaty was finally signed—the first American Treaty.
The highest court in New York.
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).
