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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
— Oliver Tambo
Tags: animal, city, you, best

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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
— Oliver Tambo
Tags: country, conquer, struggle, women
The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
— Oliver Tambo
Tags: apartheid, us, will
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
— Oliver Tambo
Tags: who, teachers, nothing, teacher
For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
— Oliver Tambo
Tags: decades, until, violence
There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
— Oliver Tambo
Tags: population, spirit, deep, way
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