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When I have control of Native Education, I will reform it so that the Natives will be taught from childhood to realise that equality with Europeans is not for them. People who believe in equality are not desirable teachers for Natives.

— Hendrik Verwoerd

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Apartheid means: ‘something of your own’; ... separate development means the kind of growth which one creates by means of own power and for the sake of yourself and your people.

The British have fought to death for the requisites of their existence. Can't you understand that we are doing it also?

Britain must now take our hand of friendship or reject it. I do not believe it will be rejected.

Israel is not consistent in its new anti-apartheid attitude... They took Israel away from the Arabs after the Arabs lived there for a thousand years. In that, I agree with them. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.

[No evidence exists to support the assertions that a threat to world peace or security exists in South West Africa.]

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