88 Quotes by Thabo Mbeki

Her work sought to challenge all of us critically to reflect on the things we find comfort in believing without question.

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.

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

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.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.

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.

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

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.