Oliver Tambo Quotes

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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• Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

  

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  • End
  • System
  • Compromise

• 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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  • City
  • Best
  • Animal

• 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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  • Party
  • Line
  • Communist

• 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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  • Up
  • Good
  • Children

• 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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  • Power
  • Black
  • Same

• 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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  • Time
  • History
  • Education

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

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  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  

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  • World
  • Believe
  • Economy

• We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.

  

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  • Africa
  • Belong
  • South Africa

• The apartheid system renounces no violence.

  

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  • Violence
  • System
  • Apartheid

• 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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  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

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  • Violence
  • Practice

• 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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  • Government
  • Organization
  • Leaving

• 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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  • Believe
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• 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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  • May
  • White
  • Africa

• 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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  • Want
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

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  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

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

  

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  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

  

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  • School
  • Done
  • Studying

• 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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  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

  

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  • Violence
  • Decades
  • Until

• Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

  

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  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.

  

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  • Country
  • See
  • Belong

• 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.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Live
  • Together