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Mamphela Ramphele Quotes

b. 1947

Mamphela Aletta Ramphele (/ˈmʌmpiːlə ˈrʌmpiːli/; Born 28 December 1947) is a South African, an activist against apartheid, a medical doctor, an academic and businesswoman. She was a partner of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, with whom she had two children.

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12 quotes

"True liberation comes not only from political freedom but also from economic and social justice."

"If your mind is imprisoned, you're imprisoned."

"Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe."

"Why would a person's education be interrupted because they refused to wave a flag?"

"You either get destroyed by pain or you get strengthened by it."

"Our diversity should be seen as a strength, not a weakness."

"Mandela's leadership welded together segments of society."

"People whose minds were freed were not going to go back into the box."

"My crime was daring to have books that the apartheid government deemed unhealthy for a native's mind."

"The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive; she is the ultimate outsider."

Across Boundaries (1996)

"We carry scars in our minds and bodies as toxins. Our failure to sit together and acknowledge to one another the wounds and pain of our divided past is undermining our humanity."

"South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem."

Attribution

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