#apartheid

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960. ↗

— Ruth First

#apartheid #areas #aside #began #early

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. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#africa #anything #apartheid #becomes #come

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#arthur #arthur ashe #ashe #athlete #been

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#apartheid #attempt #black #both #doomed

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#apartheid #belong #berlin #between #blacks

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

#apartheid #down #during #elections #first

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

— Oliver Tambo

#apartheid #brings #countries #destruction #economic

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#apartheid #believe #destroy #economy #firstly

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

— Edward Heath

#apartheid #attitude #moral #policy

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#apartheid #been #colonial #long #long road