Quotes About Racism In South Africa

#1. 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

#2. Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.

Jon Gordon

#3. It was freaky how once you realized you loved someone, and they felt the same way about you, they could look different, yet the same; how they felt familiar, but not.

Nyrae Dawn

#4. I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

Dave Matthews

#5. I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic.

Luke Evans

#6. No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Joe Slovo

#7. I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

Nadine Gordimer

#8. I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

Jason Patric

#9. Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.

Nas

#11. It is not love that keeps us stuck in the past. Love fades over time. What introspective hearts seek is simply unanswered questions about why terrible things can happen to very good people. Closure never comes from reflection. It only comes from God's guidance and promptings.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but ... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

Don Everly

#13. How different South Africa's cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord's sunshine.

Richard Lloyd Parry

#14. We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

Khalil Gibran

#15. When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.

Ferial Haffajee

#16. I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra la la' as I did the lathering for I was feeling in mid season form this morning.

P.G. Wodehouse

#17. I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

Ashley Tisdale

#18. It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.

David Bullard

#19. When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Richard Flanagan