#apartheid

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

— Jonathan Kozol

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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. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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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

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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. ↗

— Alice Walker

#apartheid #both #guilty #inside #israel

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

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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

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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

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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

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

— Oliver Tambo

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