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

— Helen Suzman Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights (2005)

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Source: As quoted in Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights (2005), by Millie Pimstone, South Africa: The Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies
Work: Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights, 2005
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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