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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is i...
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The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody'...
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My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some pla...
OLIVER TAMBO
We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition...
OLIVER TAMBO
The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
OLIVER TAMBO
We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
OLIVER TAMBO
There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and ci...
OLIVER TAMBO
The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the aparth...
OLIVER TAMBO
The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative...
OLIVER TAMBO
The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandel...
OLIVER TAMBO
I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate in...
OLIVER TAMBO
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South A...
OLIVER TAMBO
Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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 wi...
OLIVER TAMBO
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would soo...
OLIVER TAMBO
Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise ab...
OLIVER TAMBO
How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his p...
OLIVER TAMBO
Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of comm...
OLIVER TAMBO
Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Co...
OLIVER TAMBO
Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not ...
OLIVER TAMBO
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the...
OLIVER TAMBO
Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them ...
OLIVER TAMBO
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in ...
OLIVER TAMBO
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of edu...
OLIVER TAMBO
This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it...
OLIVER TAMBO
We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children...
OLIVER TAMBO
I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-ac...
OLIVER TAMBO
It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
OLIVER TAMBO
The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an ov...
OLIVER TAMBO
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for...
OLIVER TAMBO
Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will he...
OLIVER TAMBO
We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us fr...
OLIVER TAMBO
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who w...
OLIVER TAMBO
In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, b...
OLIVER TAMBO
It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough,...
OLIVER TAMBO
There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
OLIVER TAMBO
You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an a...
OLIVER TAMBO
Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they ...
OLIVER TAMBO
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonv...
MAHATMA GANDHI
Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.
DEREK LANDY
Oliver Twist has asked for more.
CHARLES DICKENS
Random testing was resisted by our government for a long time and for similar reasons it may have be...
IAIN MCGILL
From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyer...
NELSON MANDELA
Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our co...
CARRIE P. MEEK
Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.
NELSAN ELLIS
We say she resisted and that is why she died.
COLIN MURRAY
Oliver Twist.
ROMAN POLANSKI
What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
ROBERT BURNS
Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil...
WENDELL BERRY
People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than tw...
GREGORY ASNER
We're so soaked in weddings and we have been for decades.
MARK LEWIS
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man'...
MALCOLM X
We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense...
HUEY NEWTON
American newspapers frequently offered praise for eugenics just prior to WWII and The Holocaust .......
A.E. SAMAAN
We have been listening for alien signals for decades. It's time we started to watch for signals as w...
LOUIS FRIEDMAN
With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than thr...
IYAD ALLAWI
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming ...
THOMAS A. EDISON
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming ...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
I smiled into the clever eyes. “Find out for me,” I said, “whether Oliver
DICK FRANCIS
We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, t...
OSCAR A. ROMERO
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man&...
MALCOLM X
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never thi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being...
JOE DUNTHORNE
Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
SHIA LABEOUF
decades, and perhaps for generations.
TOM REILLY
With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than thr...
IYAD ALLAWI
We are always vulnerable as a financial center, as we have been for the last three decades.
JAMES HART
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
TYCHO BRAHE
We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence i...
JANET RENO
You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful ...
MIKE GALLAGHER
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
AUGUSTINE HIPPO
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.
DASHANNE STOKES
For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
Was he hungry? He'd had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot o...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON
Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out...
CLUELESS
We've got to take baby steps until we can walk. We've got to ... bring these kids home because this ...
GARY JACKSON
Temptation resisted is the true measure of character.
LOUIS DEGA
Almost a year ago, in August, Oliver was in front but Jens has played very well these last few month...
JURGEN KLINSMANN
We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save...
ATTORNEY GARNATI
We are never going to get a serious grip on gun violence in this country until we adopt comprehensiv...
JANET RENO
We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save...
ATTORNEY CHARLES GARNATI
Parking has been talked about for decades.
PAUL CRAMER
Dinosaurs have been incredibly popular for decades,
MICHAEL NOVACEK
We don't want to give the authorities any excuse for violence.
ISA GAMBAR
We've been consolidating radar services literally for decades. When we do this, we make optimum use ...
KATHLEEN BERGEN
There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
We haven't had a cyclone like this for decades, if we've ever had one like it before.
PETER BEATTIE
It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
ANTHONY HOPKINS
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found.
HOWARD DEAN
It was probably the best season for Paris for decades.
DIDIER GRUMBACH
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angel...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for...
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us fr...
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who w...
OLIVER TAMBO
In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, b...
OLIVER TAMBO
It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough,...
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an a...
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I have been speaking to Diners Club since the end of last year We've agreed on payment terms.
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No, quite the opposite, my balance sheet has never looked better.
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I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o...
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
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The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli...
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I'm really a pacifist.
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Awe and respect are two different things.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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What's the point of staying sober?
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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OLIVER PLATT
I think of myself as an actor.
OLIVER PLATT
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OLIVER PLATT
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
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OLIVER NORTH
I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that w...
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OLIVER KAHN
This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
OLIVER KAHN
When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
OLIVER KAHN
If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
OLIVER KAHN
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OLIVER KAHN
We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
OLIVER KAHN
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OLIVER KAHN
If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
OLIVER KAHN
I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
OLIVER HUDSON
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OLIVER HUDSON
You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someo...
OLIVER HUDSON
Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
OLIVER HUDSON
Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
OLIVER HUDSON
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop yo...
OLIVER HUDSON
We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
OLIVER HUDSON
I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was ...
OLIVER HUDSON
Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
OLIVER HUDSON
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
OLIVER HUDSON
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OLIVER HUDSON
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OLIVER HERFORD
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
OLIVER HERFORD
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you...
OLIVER HERFORD
There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
OLIVER HERFORD
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
OLIVER HERFORD
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
OLIVER HERFORD
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
OLIVER HERFORD
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
OLIVER HERFORD
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
OLIVER HERFORD
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
OLIVER HERFORD
Only the young die good.
OLIVER HERFORD
Many are called but few get up.
OLIVER HERFORD
That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.
OLIVER HARDY
We never see ourselves as others see us.
OLIVER HARDY
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stout...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
OLIVER EVANS
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and inv...
OLIVER EVANS
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather t...
OLIVER CROMWELL
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
OLIVER CROMWELL
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
OLIVER CROMWELL
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
OLIVER CROMWELL
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
OLIVER CROMWELL
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
OLIVER CROMWELL
God made them as stubble to our swords.
OLIVER CROMWELL
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged...
OLIVER CROMWELL
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
OLIVER HERFORD
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
JOHN OLIVER
My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday...
JAMIE OLIVER
German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everyt...
OLIVER MARKUS
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ...
OLIVER SACKS
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to go...
JOHN OLIVER
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down...
JOHN OLIVER
In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us...
BARRET OLIVER
Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which...
BARRET OLIVER
I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from not...
BARRET OLIVER
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never ...
BARNEY OLIVER
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic t...
BARNEY OLIVER
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to t...
BARNEY OLIVER
No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
BARNEY OLIVER