“ Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations. Judah Leon Magnes
“ I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant. Athol Fugard Playwright
“ In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. Desmond Tutu Activist
“ Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates. Jacob Zuma President Of South Africa
“ The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail. Malik Bendjelloul Filmmaker
“ Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid. Mary Jane Patterson
“ If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government. Nelson Mandela Former President Of South Africa
“ In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. Noam Chomsky Linguist
“ The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans. P. W. Botha Former Prime Minister Of South Africa