Verwoerd Quotes

#1. Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

Nelson Mandela

#2. Kogo, the goshawk, fluttered on his wrist and settled herself, watching him. Toranaga smiled at her. I did not choose to be what I am. It is my karma.

James Clavell

#3. Opportunity and risk come in pairs

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#4. Blacks should never be shown the greener pastures of education, they should know that their station in life is to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.

Hendrik Verwoerd

#5. People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

Rodney King

#6. You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are.

Habeeb Akande

#7. A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#8. The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.

Hendrik Verwoerd

#9. Southampton Row, however, is chiefly remarkable nowadays for the fact that you will always find a man there trying to sell a tortoise to a tailor.

Virginia Woolf