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We do not force people to move to new homes, we coerce them.
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South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.
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I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.
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No Prime Minister before me has been attacked more viciously than I am today.
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Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.
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Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
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You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.
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Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.
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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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There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner … and that is the Afrikaner himself.
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The separation of races happened long before the Nationalist Government. God separated the races.
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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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Many refugees - White, Brown and Black - flee to South Africa. Why? Here they know they have safety.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.
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We dare not see ourselves as a chosen people. We are called people - called to a particular task, just as every nation is a called people.
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The fact is that the Westminster system has not worked anywhere in Africa - not even in England because the Scots and Welsh are moving away from it.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
January 12, 1916
Died:
October 31, 2006
(aged 90)
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