Top 272 Apartheid Quotes & Sayings

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

I hadn't fought enough for the injustice of the Apartheid.

I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.

Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.

Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.

The question of Israeli apartheid was anathema a decade ago. Now it's even talked about by top Israeli officials, who say - they differ on the timing: We say it's already there; they say that if we don't do something different, we're going to face apartheid.

A 'township' in the U.S. is a small area. In South Africa it's a place designated for non-white people during the apartheid.

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

'Sizwe' is the beginning of protest theatre; 'Nothing But The Truth' is post-apartheid South Africa.

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones.

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no recognition, no normalisation. Just boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the apartheid state is defeated. I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine – the address is the PLO.

I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.

South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy.

I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.

If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

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

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.

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

The apartheid system renounces no violence.

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.

We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.

I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.

Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.

Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.