Oliver Tambo Quotes
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Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.
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The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.
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The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an overlapping of membership all along the line.
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For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.