"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."

Jonathan Shapiro, South African Cartoonist

Peace, Cows, Hypocrisy, Justice

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"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."

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Nature

"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."

Ideas

"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."

Being

"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."

Police

"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."

Character

"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community."

People

"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."

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"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"

Computer

"I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper."

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"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."

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