#apartheid

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

— Yannick Noah

#arthur #arthur ashe #ashe #athlete #been

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

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

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#bad #bad weather #conditions #does #happen

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid. ↗

— Hans Blix

#any #apartheid #because #cold #cold war

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#among #apartheid #confronted #education #educators

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat. ↗

— Tom Paulin

#apartheid #arafat #because #british #british government

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid. ↗

— Zola Budd

#denouncing #i #never #never regret #regret

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. ↗

— John Deacon

#apartheid #beaches #bit #buses #i