Mangosuthu Buthelezi Quotes

#1. And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#2. Yes I would have been able to play for Bill Parcells.

Deion Sanders

#3. All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#4. For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#5. I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#6. Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#7. Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#8. So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone

Gill Robb Wilson

#9. I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#10. Hence it is invaluable as a means of destroying shame.

C.S. Lewis

#11. The only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

Clare Boothe Luce

#12. We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#13. I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

Dane Cook

#14. In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#15. My party is committed to a federation.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#16. The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#17. I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

George Harrison

#18. Maybe even the smallest places mean something.

Jennifer Niven

#19. I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

John Mayer

#20. I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#21. Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs
putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#22. It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#23. AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#24. Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#25. I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#26. We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#27. Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

Saul Bellow

#28. So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#29. South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#30. Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

Kiefer Sutherland

#31. My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#32. I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#33. I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#34. Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#35. Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#36. The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#37. The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi