South African - Politician | May 23, 1926 - January 6, 1995
We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.
Joe Slovo
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Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
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However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
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You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.
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It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.
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No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
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It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
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There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.
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Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
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Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.
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No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.
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When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
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