Bram Fischer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
-- Bram Fischer

#Hatred #Majority #Oppression
I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.
-- Bram Fischer

#Past #Years #Justice
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
-- Bram Fischer

#Regret #Fighting #Punishment
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.
-- Bram Fischer

#Party #Mind #Trying
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
-- Bram Fischer

#Prejudice #Injustice
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
-- Bram Fischer

#Punishment #Wish #Might
I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
-- Bram Fischer

#Engagement #Duty #Dangerous
Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.
-- Bram Fischer

#Party #Labels #Fifteen

There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.
I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.
You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

Bram Fischer famous quotes

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