P. W. Botha Quotes

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The Republic of South Africa has a new formula under the National Party's leadership: black nations can get freedom without firing shots or revolution.

P. W. Botha
I have come to the realisation and conviction that the struggle in South Africa is not between White, Black and Brown, but between Christian civilized standards and the powers of chaos.

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I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.

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The separation of races happened long before the Nationalist Government. God separated the races.

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I am tired of constantly hearing how guilty the Afrikaner and the National Party are and the time has come that this myth be crushed.

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

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

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South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

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There is not an Indian community in the world that is better off than the Indians in South Africa. That is the type of apartheid that I stand for. That is the type of apartheid that is not dead.

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We do not force people to move to new homes, we coerce them.

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The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

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We are a strong country in a rather sick world. … Our problems are not so much racial as radicals wish to make them.

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It's a psychological onslaught, an economic one, a diplomatic one, a military onslaught - a total onslaught.

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No Prime Minister before me has been attacked more viciously than I am today.

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Because you could not translate the word apartheid into the more universal language of English, the wrong connotation was given to it.

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I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country.

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Where in the whole wide world today can you find a more just society than South Africa has?

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Our enemies latched unto the word "apartheid" and in a very sly manner transformed it into the strongest weapon in the onslaught against freedom and civilization in our country.

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I hate no black man. I hate no brown man. The same God that made me put them there too. My God is not only for Afrikaners.

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Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

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There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner … and that is the Afrikaner himself.

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I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

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The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

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Never in the history of this country have so few people done so much for so many without acknowledgement by the international community.

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Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

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I believe we are today crossing the Rubicon, Mr Chairman. In South Africa there can be no turning back. I have a manifesto for the future of our country and we must engage in positive action in the months and years that lie ahead.

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I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

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Many refugees - White, Brown and Black - flee to South Africa. Why? Here they know they have safety.

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You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.

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The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

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