Politician

How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?

Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.

In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.