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Quotes by South-african Authors
"The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them."
"Human rights protection laws typically come under attack from those who made these laws necessary to begin with."
"I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived."
"It was a mild winter's evening in 'Japp's Saloon and Speakeasy', in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn't enjoy jokes about his name much."
"We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population."
"We call talking about other people's personal lives 'gossip' only if we aren't or weren't part of the conversation."
"I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education."
"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."
"An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream-in that particular month."
"It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms."
"Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police."
"Lead from the back - and let others believe they are in front."
"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."
"Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems."
"Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth."
"We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed."
"Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?"
"Corrigan crept up to the bar, cautiously moving around it. It looked like he was copying all the moves he'd seen in old cop movies and westerns, and doing it rather badly. He lowered the pistol. There was no one behind the bar. There was however, an open trapdoor. And that would mean the bounty hunter was - ."Don't move! Came Beck's distant, slightly muffled, barked order. "My turn, I think!"
"I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented."
"Blessings are not about money or material things only as the modern world makes it. We can do simply things that can change people's life. For example:1. To listen to those who need to be heard(bleating cry).2. To speak kind words to the vulnerable ones.3. To show and give care to those who are in need.4. To pray for others or on behalf of the others."
"I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world."
"Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best."
"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better."
"When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens."
"Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that."
"The enemy came to steal,kill and destroy our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that."
"Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing."
"Dreamers are full of inventive minds, willing to find new possibilities and new ways to grow in life."
"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal."
"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."
"If you 'don't do politics' , trust me - politics will do you."
"Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed."
"Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked."
"It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are."
"Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960."
"The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness."
"The second orgasm has a biblical connotation."
"Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals."
"For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they-unlike most human beings-have the means of production, and human beings, because they-unlike all companies-have the means of reproduction."
"One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question."
"I learned to ambush the fear and I managed to turn vulnerability to ruthlessness."
"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
"The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests."
"The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and intolerance - and to deprive people of their equal civil rights."
"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."
"You better keep your lane on this race of reaching out for our dreams and goals, don't stand in the middle of the road because you will be run over by those who are determined to reach the finishing line."
"The rainbow across the sky after a storm confirms Your kindness and Your forgiving heart."
"While EQUALITY means no more 'previously disadvantaged' it also means that there should be no 'currently disadvantaged' to replace them."
"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."
"Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods - a few seconds after he took Viagra."
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