South African - Politician | October 27, 1917 - April 24, 1993
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.
Oliver Tambo
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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