Oliver Tambo Quotes

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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 on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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.
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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.
I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
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Oliver Tambo
Profession
Politician
BirthDate
27 October, 1917
DeathDate
24 April, 1993
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South Africa
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