67 Quotes About Apartheid

Unsure about its place and identity, a whole nation was made to believe that ethnic pride and culture could only descend from race.

Affirmative action is the giving, to some people, of a fair disadvantage.

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.

To respond in kind to the violence of apartheid was just wrong. Terrorism was based on the use of indiscriminate violence, directed at civilian people because they happened to belong to a particular group, race, or community. [...] It was completely antithetical to our ideals. We were fighting for justice against the system of white supremacy, not against a race.

One day you will realise that you don’t belong here, Ros. Even though we, and generations before us, were born and raised in Africa, we can never call ourselves Africans.

For the million people who lied in Soweto, there were no stores, no bars, no restaurants. There were no paved roads, minimal electricity, inadequate sewerage. But when you put one million people together in one place, they find a way to make life for themselves.

The vast majority of South Africans, almost all of whom are black, almost always—if not always—attribute to Apartheid, the side effects of capitalism. (And that makes them very unlikely to question capitalism, let alone strive for its abandonment.)

80 percent of the Mountain Aquifer’s water recharge area lies beneath the West Bank, Israel directly extracts about 90 percent of the water that is withdrawn from the aquifer annually, leaving Palestinians only the remaining 10 percent or so to exploit directly.

Racism is one of the most common results of the combination of stupidity and the ability to see.