Richard Attenborough

If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made 'Gandhi' about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In 'Cry Freedom' I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.

English Actor

Justin Cartwright

The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it is a result of apartheid. Deliberately, black people were not allowed to know too much. They could read and write a bit to be useful, but that's about it.

British Novelist

Desmond Tutu

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

South African Leader

Lauren Beukes

Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.

South African Novelist

Naomi Campbell

I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.

British Model

Caster Semenya

Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.

South African Athlete

Athol Fugard

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.

South African Playwright

Alice Walker

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

American Author

Noam Chomsky

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

American Activist

Kanye West

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

American Rapper

Apartheid specifically refers to South Africa's legalized racial segregation from 1948 to 1994.

South African Origin

The term carries heavy historical weight and connotations of oppression and injustice.

Historically Weighted

Use with care, considering its association with human rights violations and suffering.

Cultural Sensitivity

Beyond South Africa, 'apartheid' may describe similar systems of racial or other discrimination.

Broader Usage

In extended use, it signifies divisions beyond race, such as economics or education.

Metaphoric Extension

Usually used in social or political analysis to highlight systemic inequalities.

Analytical Context

 on this project what would you make of his design I'm very excited about it I think it's it's got the features that we want it's a place that will be beautiful it's a place that will tell a hard story a necessary story but you can't go to South Africa without seeing these incredibly difficult but important monuments and memorials to apartheid you

The urgent need for...

 our organizations are tiny up against them, and we have a belief system that keeps them tiny. We have two rulebooks. We have one for the nonprofit sector, and one for the rest of the economic world. It's an apartheid, and it discriminates against the nonprofit sector in five different areas,

The way we think about...

 he said that that event represented divorce between black children and their families, because their families had grown up under apartheid, and they knew how dangerous it was to speak out. They wanted their kids to lay low and stay safe. And when our kids threatened to walk out,

How teachers can help...

 That's what social justice work is, and that's what mothers do. We act in the present with an idea of the future that we want to bring about. All of the best ideas seem impossible at first. But just in my lifetime, we've seen the end of apartheid,

In uncertain times,...

 and he summarized the challenge for us all. He said in his lifetime he had climbed a great mountain, the mountain of challenging and then defeating racial oppression and defeating apartheid. He said that there was a greater challenge ahead,

Wiring a web for global...

 Africans need and deserve that same capacity for adaptation. Third, imposing mitigation on the world's poor is widening economic inequality. We're creating energy apartheid. Working in global energy and development, I often hear people say,

The energy Africa needs...

 and apartheid past and so every single day I see resilience I see strength I see dignity and pride the industry of photography is not separate to the industry to the world which we photograph not only are so many of us

Storytellers Summit Day...

 those women who refused to dwindle in the midst of apartheid. And, of course, I’m dedicating it also to my grandmother, whom I think really played quite a lot of important roles,

Vusi Mahlasela: "Thula...

 he said that like slavery and apartheid, "Poverty is not natural. It is man-made and can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." I want to end by saying

Paul Pholeros: How to...

 They include Desmond Tutu for his nonviolent campaign against apartheid in South Africa, Jody Williams for her campaign to ban and clear anti-personnel mines,