Oliver Tambo famous quotes

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.
-- Oliver Tambo

#Peace #Black And White #Vision

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.
-- Oliver Tambo

#Truth #Discovery #Racism

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

#Black #Discrimination #Oppression

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.
-- Oliver Tambo

#Country #Children #Movement

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.
-- Oliver Tambo

#Love #Country #Peace

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

#Country #May #Economic

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

#Atheism #Democratic #United

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

#Believe #World #Economy

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.