Oliver Tambo Quotes

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We who are free to eat and sleep at will, to write, to speak, to travel as we please; we who are free to make or break a revolution, let us use our comparative freedom, not to perpetuate the misery of those who suffer, nor to give indirect aid to the enemy they fight by withholding our own contributions.

Oliver Tambo
Our watchword must be mobilization, organization, struggle. All our people must be mobilized into action. All our people must be organized for action. All our people must engage in struggle. That must be our reply to the enemy's desperate counteroffensive.

Oliver Tambo
The oppressed people in South Africa must and will settle accounts with their oppressors by any methods and means open to them, the determining consideration being whether they want to achieve their freedom at all costs or to live in bondage forever.

Oliver Tambo
We seek to create a united democratic and nonracial society. 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. Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe of which all of humanity can be proud.

Oliver Tambo
There is no answer to apartheid apart from striking directly at its head. It is so evil and has been condemned so forcibly and so genuinely that the only way to handle it is by destroying it.

Oliver Tambo
No one can doubt any longer now that life for the African in South Africa is not life. If it is, it is worth nothing. But we promise that in that event no other life in South Africa is worth anything— white or not white. Let the United Nations and the world, therefore, save what it can. What it cannot will either be destroyed or destroy itself.

Oliver Tambo