OLIVER TAMBO

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

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

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

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.

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.

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.

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

We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.

For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.

How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?

The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.

The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.

The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.

Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.