Tambo Quotes

#1. I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#2. From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

Nelson Mandela

#3. Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

Ring Lardner

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

Oliver Tambo

#5. It is better to conceal ignorance.

Heraclitus

#6. She stabbed him with her wicked pretty knife, disrupted his simple life.
She's a player, a heartbreaker,
and now she breaks alone.

Coco J. Ginger

#7. The way you get deals done and the way you get good terms, is to have a competitive situation.

Sam Altman

#8. 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

#9. Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?

Mark Twain

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Oliver Tambo

#13. 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

#14. I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.

Eric Stoltz

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

Oliver Tambo

#16. People who don't know us can take one look at me and know I'm completely owned.

Abbi Glines

#17. 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

#18. Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.

Frank Beddor