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644 South African Quotes

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
Africa Centuries Dominance European
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There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

Above Cloud Even Head
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The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

Anything Country Feeling Go
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You don't just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.

End Freedom Just Struggle
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If you grow the economy, then you become stronger, and you can resist many other things.

Become Economy Grow Many
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I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.

Beautiful Beautiful Country Confidence Country
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Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it's not my thing; it's an ANC policy.

About Implement Leader Policy
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My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

Africa Constitution Diversity Gray
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I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

Country Exactly Exactly The Same Feeling
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We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

Africa Capital Entrenched History
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The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

Africa Centuries Decades Economy
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We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

Constitution Constitutional Deal Democracy
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My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate.

Country Court Debate Democracy
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In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.

Am Culture Government I Am
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Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

Agencies Bad Corruption Dealt
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In no country are all the people factory owners. The majority are workers.

Country Factory Majority No Country
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I am forever indebted to the ANC, the liberation movement I have served almost all my life.
All My Life Almost Almost All Am
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I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.

Africa Am Better Better Life
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None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

Building Claim Former Happen
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Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

Among Challenges Day-To-Day Experience
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If we avail ourselves to serve in terms of the Constitution, we should be prepared if, indeed, those we serve deem it appropriate to suffer the hardship that comes with our constitutional obligations.

Appropriate Avail Be Prepared Constitution
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I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right and do so in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.

Accept Constitution Exercise Just
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Act Answerable Creative Creative Act
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Affects Brand Censorship Experienced
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Brings Child Fear Hate
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

Between Committed Eye Fade
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Best Between Charter Continuing
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Awaits Creativity Eden Outside
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Always Beauty Hunger Truth
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Am Convinced I Am Innocence
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Authority Like Moral Moral Authority
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The facts are always less than what really happened.

Always Facts Happened Less
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
Cannot Live Me Someone
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Another Gift Give People
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Area Life Made Making
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A desert is a place without expectation.
Desert Expectation Place Without
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Characters Hemingway Learned Listen
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Alter Change How How Much
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
Become Golfer Hard Must
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
Answer Golf Know Puzzle
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
Any Being Ever Human
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Course Early Golf Golf Course
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Course Create Failure Our
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Place Find Dig Responsibility
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We are not by nature cruel.

Cruel We By Nature
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

Because Case Culture Imitation
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

Deepest Early Early Life Imprint
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Animals Cannot Day Domesticated
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
Consciousness Different Human Human Consciousness
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

Certainly Dead Feel Idea
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