Oliver Tambo famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
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.
-- Oliver Tambo -
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.
-- Oliver Tambo -
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
-- Oliver Tambo -
The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.
-- Oliver Tambo -
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.
-- Oliver Tambo -
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
-- Oliver Tambo -
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
-- Oliver Tambo -
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
-- Oliver Tambo
-
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
-
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.
-
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
-
I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
-
I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
-
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.
-
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
-
Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
-
Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.
-
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
You may also like:
-
Ahmed Kathrada
Politician -
Albert Lutuli
Politician -
Chris Hani
Political leader -
Desmond Tutu
Activist -
Frederik Willem de Klerk
Former State President of South Africa -
Graca Machel
Minister for Education and Culture of Mozambique -
Jacob Zuma
President of South Africa -
Jan Smuts
Statesman -
Joe Slovo
South African Politician -
Kgalema Motlanthe
Former President of South Africa -
Mahatma Gandhi
Lawyer -
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
South African Politician -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil rights activist -
Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa -
P. W. Botha
Former Prime Minister of South Africa -
Robert Sobukwe
Political figure -
Ruth First
Activist -
Steven Biko
Activist -
Thabo Mbeki
South African Politician -
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
South African Politician