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Helen Suzman Quotes

1917–2009 South Africa

South Africa
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I do not know why we equate—and with such examples before us—a white skin with civilisation.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa; it is your answers.

Are you going to put me under house arrest or put me on Robben Island?

Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights (2005)

You say your people brought the Bible over the mountains and ask what mine did. They wrote it, my dear.

Every Nationalist MP should go to at least one funeral for unrest victims heavily disguised as human beings, instead of sitting on their green benches in parliament, insulated like fish in an aquarium.

Don't think for a moment that Mbeki is not anti-white - he is, most definitely. His speeches all have anti-white themes and he continues to convince everyone that there are two types of South African - the poor black and the rich white.

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are entitled to be concerned. I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country - but not entirely optimistic.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Helen Suzman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.