Oliver Tambo Quotes

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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• There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • May
  • Genes
  • Schizophrenia

• Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Now
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
  • Drug
  • Because

• That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Amazing
  • White

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Power
  • Change

• If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • May
  • Home

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Poverty
  • Scary
  • India

• Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • May
  • Know
  • Yourself

• No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Character
  • Power

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Party
  • Structure

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • May
  • Future
  • Know

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• You will die - and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything - or cease asking.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Die

• When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It's amazing how they can say, 'This week, this might happen,' and it kind of does. I had typical nausea the first trimester, which was no fun. And extreme tiredness.

  

  Anna Silk
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Reading

• The people taking care of our children and our parents, they deserve a good wage, good benefits, and a secure retirement. And, it’s crucial that every American have access to the education and skills they need to get the jobs of the future. So we will fight to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

  

  Sia LSD
  • World

• The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • White
  • Africa