36 Quotes by Joe Slovo

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

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.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.