Apartheid in South Africa/institution of Apartheid

Famous quotes containing the words south, africa and/or institution:

    ...I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.
    Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)

    America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)