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Helen Suzman

"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."

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"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."

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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

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"It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself."

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"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."

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"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."
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"The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified."
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"That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did."
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"I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for."
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"I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that."
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"Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand."
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"I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action."
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"I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are concerned."
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"For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one."
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