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Albie Sachs
8 quotes
“Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation.”
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“Violence of apartheid was just wrong. Terrorism was based on the use of indiscriminate violence, directed at civilian people because they happened to belong to a particular group, race, or community. It was completely antithetical to our ideals. We were fighting for justice against the system of white supremacy, not against a race.”
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“All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable.”
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“It's having, a belief that we can make a difference.”
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“Everything, in my life has been defined in actions -”
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“There's nothing more exciting than being involved in a project that requires intelligence, thoughtfulness, a sense of history, use of language, and collegiality. It is enthralling and tedious and hard, and details matter, and it requires massive research, knowing the record and knowing the arguments; to feel the excitement that you can get through an intellectual project that has enormous public and social meaning. And I wanted to tell that story, I want to tell the story of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Not in a technical literary way.”
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“When the Law Commission says committal of judgment debtors is an anomaly that cannot be justified and should be abolished; when it is common cause that there is a general international move away from imprisonment for civil debt, of which the present committal proceedings are an adapted relic; when such imprisonment has been abolished in South Africa, save for its contested form as contempt of court in the magistrate's court; when the clauses concerned have already been interpreted by the Courts as restrictively as possible, without their constitutionally offensive core being eviscerated; when other tried and tested methods exist for recovery of debt from those in a position to pay; when the violation of the fundamental right to personal freedom is manifest, and the procedures used must inevitably possess a summary character if they are to be economically worthwhile to the creditor, then the very institution of civil imprisonment, however it may be described and however well directed its procedures might be, in itself must be regarded as highly questionable and not a compelling claimant for survival.”
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“The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter is the both the easiest book I've written, and the hardest because I was still physically so weak. I think it has become my most successful book because it's a bridge between the early part of my life – fighting and resisting apartheid – and the later part of my life as part of the new society with new values, and a new Constitution. It's an emotional connection between different phases of my life, but also an intellectual connection, a bridge head, in a way, for my story, but to some extent paralleling the story of South Africa. The occasion for writing it presented itself very neatly. Blown up on 7 April 1988, out of hospital several months later in London, and I have an invitation to lecture at the law school at the University of Columbia. It was a perfect setting, because I had no other obligations. I enjoyed the teaching. It was contained, and the rest of the time I could write. And now it's just me, my computer, my memory, and I got to produce a draft of the book.”
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