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When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow! ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#day #dignity #fully #lives #longer

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#consequence #decade #during #firm #first

If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#condom #country #only #safe #said

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#belongs #black #black and white #live #south

Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#cowboys #dallas #dallas cowboys #one thing #thing

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#about #decisions #defence #economist #economy

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#dark #described #oppressed #those #us

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#decisions #effect #effects #experience #ignore

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#about #ask #country #get #here

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#because #been #educated #exposed #find