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Rick Turner Quotes

1942–1978 South Africa

Richard Turner (25 September 1941 – 8 January 1978), known as Rick Turner, was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist who was murdered, possibly by the South African security forces, in 1978.

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Also known as: Richard Turner

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A Christian society is one in which we prefer people to things, a society based on freely expressed love.

How practical is it to want a second car when the world is running out of petrol?

Only in a participatory democracy are we able to develop the psychological skills and the knowledge required for social action.

A real change can be brought about only by a fundamental redistribution of wealth and of power.

The problem is to work out what kind of institutions, social, political and economic, would be needed for such a society.

Only in a participatory democracy can we both cooperate freely and openly with other people and at the same time maximize our own personal range of effective choices.

South Africa is an unequal society.

Attribution

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