Quotes About Oliver Tambo

#1. 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

#2. If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945

Mervyn Peake

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

Oliver Tambo

#4. Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#5. 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

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

Oliver Tambo

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

Mickey Mantle

#10. 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

#11. My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

Andrew Hudgins

#12. I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.

David Beckham

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

Oliver Tambo

#14. A master passion is the love of news.

George Crabbe

#15. His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!

Charles Dickens