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Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.