67 Quotes About Apartheid

  • Author Wilbur Smith
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    The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

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  • Author Peter Tatchell
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    By legislating a two-tier system of relationships, Labor (government) has, in effect, created a form of legal apartheid based on sexual orientation.

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  • Author Binyavanga Wainaina
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    When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.

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  • Author S. Walker
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    We are now full participants in Canadian society. Apartheid is gone. It has been a 26-year struggle.

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