Mary Jane Patterson quotes

“Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.”
-- Mary Jane Patterson

#Rights Quotes #Movement Quotes #Apartheid Quotes

“It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz”

“I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.”

“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.”

“I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.”

“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”

“For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.”

“We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.”

“I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.”

“What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.”

“The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.”

Source : "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 251), 1994.