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Quotes from Oliver Tambo

The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
~ Oliver Tambo
Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
~ Oliver Tambo
The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
~ Oliver Tambo
For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
~ Oliver Tambo
The apartheid system renounces no violence.
~ Oliver Tambo
If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
~ Oliver Tambo
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
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
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
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
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
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
~ Oliver Tambo