#south africa

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#alternative #between #capitalism #difficult #exploitation

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#african #armed #attack #begin #could

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#difference #drip #events #fed #fight

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#any #cease #china #corner #democracy

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#begin #code #department #find #genetic

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. ↗

— Steven Biko

#bestow #face #gift #greatest #human

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

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. ↗

— Kenny Baker

#europe #i #i love #ice #love

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security. ↗

— Susan Rice

#any #come #deal #democracy #expectation

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#blamed #crash #cups #edge #ground