It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills.
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!
Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.
Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.