Joe Slovo Quotes

• Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

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  Long, Suits, Sometimes

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• No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

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  Racism, Vision, Racist

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• There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

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  Trust, Christian, Two

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• It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

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  Thinking, Ordinary, Alternatives

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• It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

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  Ideology, Inhuman, Has Beens

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• One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

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  Country, Important, Tactics

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• We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.

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  People, Needs, Sides

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• I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.

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  Thinking, Community, Judgement

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• You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

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  Gun, Tables, Shoulders

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• When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

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  Morning, Men, Wife

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• No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.

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  Struggle, Taken, People

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• The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

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  Believe, Movement, Mass

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• However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

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  Enemy, Resistance, Violence

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• Toda la parte de África meridional controlada por minorías raciales está experimentando una actividad guerrillera constante y regular o se enfrenta a una preparación avanzada para su inicio.

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  Southern, Preparation, Minorities

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• We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

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  Believe, People, Assumption

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• We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

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  White, Important, Overcoming

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• One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

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  Country, Fruit, Bears

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• As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

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  Country, Levels, Way

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• Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

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  Party, Government, Europe

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• Con el tiempo, se descubre, pero lleva tiempo, sobre todo en condiciones en las que la comunicación es difícil y el enemigo dificulta enormemente la difusión de la información.

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  Communication, Awkward, Enemy

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• On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

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  Struggle, Hands, Class

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