Apartheid Quotes
Collection of top 65 famous quotes about Apartheid
Apartheid Quotes & Sayings
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"We seem to have thought of everything - except the Arabs"
— Judah Leon Magnes
It is not too surprising that, having been involved in a policy as evil and dehumanizing as apartheid,
— Desmond Tutu
I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
— Zola Budd
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
— Nadine Gordimer
Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
— Audre Lorde
Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.
— Nelson Mandela
We live in a state of economic apartheid. The laws are there to protect the the haves from the have-nots.
— C.J. Stone
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
— Al Sharpton
If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.
— Nelson Mandela
When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.
— Ferial Haffajee
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
— Henry Rollins
There had been many such experiments when he worked in South Africa, in Vlakplaas, a notorious apartheid death camp.
— Chris Abani
The Nation-state: apartheid without political incorrectness.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
— Patrice Motsepe
I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.
— Nadine Gordimer
Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us.
— Adam Hochschild
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
— Noam Chomsky
Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
— Nadine Gordimer
I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
— Desmond Tutu
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
— Nelson Mandela
I hadn't fought enough for the injustice of the Apartheid.
— Arnon Milchan
My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
— Orlando Bloom
When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
— F. W. De Klerk
I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
— F. W. De Klerk
HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.
— Philip Appleman
For the South African White minority, neo-liberalism is apartheid with a clean conscience, called Democracy.
— Arundhati Roy
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
— Desmond Tutu
While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
— Damon Galgut
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.
— Henry Rollins
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.
— Nelson Mandela
Jesus was not white, hey, he was a black man. Like our pig man, Mzwaki. All the Bible people were dark people.
— Jonah Becker
Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
— Clare Short
It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
— Desmond Tutu
Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.
— Omar Suleiman
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
— Nadine Gordimer
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
— Oliver Tambo
The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.
— Nelson Mandela
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
— Kanye West
Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.
— Jonny Steinberg
I mean, this political correctness! It's worse than apartheid
— Fredrik Backman
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
— Edward Heath
Apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.
— Dervla Murphy
The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.
— Hendrik Verwoerd
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
— Alice Walker
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
— Desmond Tutu
Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds.
— Murtala Mohammed
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil
— Steven Biko
Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.
— Mary Jane Patterson
There is a word which sums up this 'separate but equal' mentality - Apartheid. And we all know how separate and how equal that was.
— Christina Engela
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
— Malik Bendjelloul
