Oliver R Tambo Quotes

#1. Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Oliver Tambo

#2. I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

Dee Hock

#4. Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.

Darlene Love

#5. We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

Oliver Tambo

#6. Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

William Hazlitt

#7. Being certified as a user means you have basic knowledge and can turn things on and off;

Chris Hadfield

#8. We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

Ovid

#9. Want me, I beg, but nothing comes.

Markus Zusak

#10. If there's one lesson that I've been taught it is that when it comes to the bad, everyone wants to be a drop in the ocean. Insignificant and without fault. They want to be a drop instead of the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Kay Whitley

#11. O Lord ...
Once I wanted You so much
I didn't even dare walk past Your house-
And now
I am not even worthy to be let in

Rabia Basri

#12. He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Chanakya

#13. To do it all and deprive others of doing is ... a misguided notion.

Jan Karon

#14. All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!

Bill Maher

#15. 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.

Oliver Tambo

#16. The children of any nation are its future. A country, a
movement, a person that does not value its youth and
children does not deserve its future.

Oliver Tambo

#17. We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

Oliver Tambo

#18. Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Oliver Tambo

#19. It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

Oliver Tambo

#20. Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#21. The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Oliver Tambo

#22. I still love you in my own fucked-up way.

Matthew Quick