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Quotes by South-african Authors
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."
"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."
"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."
"The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads."
"The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living."
"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."
"That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account."
"I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to."
"It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves."
"Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant."
"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American."
"To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like."
"Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say."
"A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me."
"They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country."
"We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts."
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
"Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist."
"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."
"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."
"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."
"Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg."
"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
"And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons."
"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been."
"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."
"It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected."
"Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious."
"We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time."
"It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one."
"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
"As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are."
"I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart."
"Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man."
"I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history."
"Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter."
"We were able to flood the zone immediately."
"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."
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
"Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything."
"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
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