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"It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction."
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"We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa."
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"Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing."
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