South African Politician Quotes

Nelson Mandela

Desmond Tutu

Thabo Mbeki

Shaka

F. W. de Klerk

Paul Kruger

Albert Lutuli

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust – good Christians and good Communists.

It is the unthankful people to whom I have given protection who are always dissatisfied, and, what is more, they actually want me to alter my laws to suit them.

The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

Mamphela Ramphele

Ideologically, Pelosi is a far-left talking points machine. Tactically, she knows nothing else other than how to attack. Her worldview admits of no compromise and there seems to be no space in her imagination for new ideas. She has refashioned her dwindling caucus in her image, as the moderate, red-state Democrats have been steadily decimated, leaving nothing but the bicoastal liberals representing the inner city poor and the elite suburban gentry. She feels no pressure to change or to improve.

Instead of rejoicing, you would do better to weep; for this gold will cause our country to be soaked in blood.

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.

As far as criticism is concerned, we don't resent that unless it is absolutely biased, as it is in most cases.

I have ceased a long time ago to exist as an individual. The ideals, the political goals that I stand for, those are the ideals and goals of the people in this country. They cannot just forget their own ideals. My private self doesn't exist. Whatever they do to me, they do to the people in this country.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

If blacks get hurt, I get hurt. If whites get hurt, that's my wife, and if you harm coloured people, you're looking for my children. Your unity embodies who I am.

Our nation is unique. We grew out of a desire to worship God in a certain way; we grew from a number of other nations who were being prosecuted because of their faith. We have a wonderful culture, a wonderful, vibrant language. I want my people to be proud of who they are again.

Eugène Terre'Blanche

I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

Up till now he [the Bantu] has been subjected to a school system which drew him away from his own community and practically misled him by showing him the green pastures of the European but still did not allow him to graze there…It is abundantly clear that unplanned education creates many problems, disrupts the communal life of the Bantu and endangers the communal life of the European.

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

Up! children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! And destroy them all.

We have gone on our knees before God Almighty to pray for His forgiveness.

Somewhere ahead there beckons a civilization, a culture, which will take its place in the parade of God's history beside other great human syntheses, Chinese, Egyptian, Jewish, European. It will not necessarily be all black; but it will be African.

A new era has begun in South Africa. My government is removing racial discrimination. We want to be accepted by our African brothers.

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