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Mary Burton Quotes

born 1940

Maria Macdiarmid "Mary" Burton (born 19 January 1940, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a South African activist, former president of the Black Sash and was a commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Random Mary Burton quote

4 quotes

You have no right to harden your heart in this country.

At the end of my life, they will put on my tombstone: ‘She did not take a government car!

Picking bathroom taps is of little interest to me, but it has to be done

The daily hearing of the stories, I think it took everybody on the TRC into some very dark places

Attribution

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