{"quotes":[{"text":"You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.","author":"Nadine Gordimer","tags":["apartheid","compassion","politics","regimes","revolution","south-africa","struggle"],"id":16968,"author_id":"Nadine+Gordimer"},{"text":"At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in one part: “I've devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I've denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites.","author":"Steve Biko","tags":["apartheid","family","liberty","south-africa"],"id":45967,"author_id":"Steve+Biko"},{"text":"Children are being killed, because some 'adults' think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it's a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed young, yes unarmed young, it bespeaks the leagues of fear residing in these men's hearts; that they've created a world in which they themselves have become useless.Then it makes front page, and it becomes business as usual.Something is amiss here.If adults don't truly grow up, then their young may never get the chance.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["2nd-childhood","adults","apartheid","children","genocide","holocaust","infanticide","selective-slaughter","stupidity","weakness","wickedness"],"id":54672,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"I cannot pinpoint a moment when I became politicized, when I knew that I would spend my life in the liberation struggle. To be an African in South Africa means that one is politicized from the moment of one's birth, whether one acknowledges it or not...His life is circumscribed by racist laws and regulations that cripple his growth, dim his potential, and stunt his life...I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments, produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, From henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.","author":"Nelson Mandela","tags":["apartheid","freedom","freedom-fighter","nelson-mandela","racism","south-africa","struggle"],"id":101833,"author_id":"Nelson+Mandela"},{"text":"To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.","author":"Peter Singer","tags":["animal-rights","apartheid","bullfighting","canada","compassion","science","seals","south-africa","south-korea","spain"],"id":108680,"author_id":"Peter+Singer"},{"text":"Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical faculty—or indeed any faculty whatever, unless it is one of induced enthusiasm for a plausible consensus President. (We shall see whether it counts as progress for the same parrots to learn a new word.) And my own cohort, the left, shared in the general dispiriting move towards apolitical, atonal postmodernism. Regarding something magnificent, like the long-overdue and still endangered South African revolution (a jagged fit in the supposedly smooth pattern of axiomatic progress), one could see that Ariadne’s thread had a robust reddish tinge, and that potential citizens had not all deconstructed themselves into Xhosa, Zulu, Cape Coloured or ‘Eurocentric’; had in other words resisted the sectarian lesson that the masters of apartheid tried to teach them. Elsewhere, though, it seemed all at once as if competitive solipsism was the signifier of the ‘radical’; a stress on the salience not even of the individual, but of the trait, and from that atomization into the lump of the category. Surely one thing to be learned from the lapsed totalitarian system was the unwholesome relationship between the cult of the masses and the adoration of the supreme personality. Yet introspective voyaging seemed to coexist with dull group-think wherever one peered about among the formerly ‘committ.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["apartheid","apoliticism","argument","atheism","berlin","bought-priesthood","cape-coloureds","cold-war","communism","conviction","critical-thinking","enlightenment","euphemism","eurocentricism","faith","film","george-hw-bush","george-orwell","german-people","germany","groupthink","hedonism","humanism","individualism","irony","journalism","left-wing-politics","lies","literary-criticism","literature","los-angeles","margaret-thatcher","monotheism","munich","orthodoxy","personality-politics","politics","polytheism","populism","postmodernism","potus","progress","radical-politics","religion","right-wing-politics","ronald-reagan","russia","science","sectarianism","self-love","self-pity","socialism","solipsism","south-africa","soviet-union","thomas-mann","totalitarianism","tribalism","truth","united-states","xhosa-people","zulu-people"],"id":151951,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["africa","africans","amorous","apartheid","attraction","black-people","color","common-sense","face","falling-in-love","fancy","human-beings","intelligence","knowledge","liking","love","memories","memory","michael-bassey-johnson","nigerians","race","wisdom","wise","wise-men","wise-people"],"id":168787,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.","author":"Edward Heath","tags":["moral","policy","apartheid "],"id":194732,"author_id":"Edward+Heath"},{"text":"The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.","author":"Trevor Noah","tags":["apartheid","colonialism","illiteracy","poverty"],"id":201664,"author_id":"Trevor+Noah"},{"text":"Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["africa","africans","america","apartheid","bad-terms","battle","beliefs","black","code","competition","conflict","danger","discrimination","disunity","division","everyone","gender","harm","hatred","inequality","rage","religion","rivals","separation","special","unique","war","white"],"id":206439,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}