Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government."
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Apartheid
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Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid."
Zola Budd
Athlete
"I will never regret not denouncing apartheid."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually."
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"What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong."
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"It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid."
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"I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones."
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"In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would."
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"The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible."
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