Charlayne Hunter-Gault quotes
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“If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.”
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“The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].”
-- Charlayne Hunter-GaultSource : "Africa Update: Oprah Winfrey's Work with Schoolgirls". "New & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007".
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“I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.”
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“You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?”
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“The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.”
-- Charlayne Hunter-GaultSource : "Debriefing: Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma". Interview with Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2010.
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.”
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“Are you taking my hat hostage?”
Source : Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.32, HarperCollins UK
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“Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages”
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