“So I know many [Members of Congress] were fighting for people to be free, for people to live in dignity in South Africa… So I know that they care about these things. But now that you have two Muslims who are saying, here is a group of people that we want to make sure that they have the dignity that…”— Ilhan Omar, jewishinsider.com
“For a little while I made myself Prime Minister of South Africa, but I find politics very slow and boring really.”— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com
“I wish these history teachers would be more accurate! I did not ‘conquer South Africa’ – I conquered the land to the north of the present country of South Africa: a place that was named, in my honour, Rhodesia.”— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com
“As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types of chocolate. Dad was the white chocolate, mom was the dark chocolate, and I was the milk chocolate. But we were all just chocolate.”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“Nearly one million people lived in Soweto. Ninety-nine point nine percent of them were black—and then there was me. I was famous in my neighborhood just because of the color of my skin. I was so unique people would give directions using me as a landmark. ‘The house on Makhalima Street. At the corner…”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman...and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.”— Trevor Noah, npr.org
“I live in I live in South Africa. I’m proud to live there. I’ve always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it t…”— Trevor Noah, interviewmagazine.com
“We do live in a racist country. We have to evolve and have to realize that truth and reconciliation is here, too—it’s not only in South Africa or Cambodia. Young people have to learn what happened in our history, and we need people to know that we’re walking on the boards of genocide. This is a plac…”— Danny DeVito, thedailybeast.com
“We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.”— Desmond Tutu, en.wikiquote.org
“When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.”— Desmond Tutu, en.wikiquote.org
“In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift—a more human face.”— Steve Biko, amazon.com