The history of apartheid era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle cry is not yet heard.
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
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.
As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.
In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti France and the United States combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.
