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Harry Schwarz
18 quotes
“My lord, one can perhaps be pardoned for saying that perhaps his (Jimmy Kantor) biggest crime, if it is a crime, is that he was a partner of Harold Wolpe, and that Harold Wolpe was his brother-in-law.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I regard the Honourable member for Randburg as a friend. I regard him as a person who has done tremendous work as treasurer of the United Party on the Witswatersrand branch. The test of friendship comes in what you do as a man in adversity. I want to say, and I make so secret of it, that I am my brother's keeper and I will not be his executioner.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An extract from Schwarz's "Brother's Keeper" speech to parliament where Schwarz was expelled from the United Party after declaring support for Dick Enthoven MP and his anti-apartheid policies. (10 February 1975).
“It is important that in the process of change, existing institutions of value and means of production are not destroyed. The fabric of society, however critical one may be of its present structures, should be adopted and modified where required, but not destroyed.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture at University of British Columbia (12 October 1976).
“I make this appeal to Mr Botha: Show this statesmanship, show that at this time you will not allow our unity of purpose to overcome the real problems to be threatened.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Argus, page 1-2, (1979)
“Laws alone is not enough to ensure that freedom is safeguarded. What is required is a sprit of freedom among the people concerned. There must be an atmosphere of respect, a feeling of belonging together, an atmosphere of harmony with fellow beings.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Herald Times, (4 November 1979)
“The National Party does not care about people, it only cares about power.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rand Daily Mail, (2 February 1981)
“The mission must be adherence to and the advancement of the concept of a truly democratic political system and economic system which gives not only rights and opportunity but also security.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cape Times (1 November 1989)
“Whenever I draw up economic policy I look at it from the point of view of the person who has nothing; I look at it from the point of view of my farther who tried to get a job but could not.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sunday Times (18 November 1990).
“Freedom is incomplete if it is exercised in poverty.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harry Schwarz in 'Poverty Corrodes Freedom' (1993).
“Morality is cheap when someone else is paying.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Herald Times (1988) http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=1030957.
“If we are going to have greater unemployment, if we are going to have more unrest, the chances of a negotiated settlement will be less and in a revolutionary situation the chances of a truly free democratic society emerging are reduced.'”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Herald Times (1988) http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=1030957.
“I have an obligation to the 37 million people in South Africa to ensure their well-being. But the road from slavery to the promised land is a rough one.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During a Speech to the Philadelphia World Affairs Council, 12 June 1991.
“I must and will work to ensure that the new democratic South Africa has a fair chance to succeed economically as well as politically, and to try to assist in fulfilling at least a part of the dream of the oppressed and deprived when the new South Africa is born.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C, April 1991.
“I said, 'Down with apartheid' before some of them [demonstrators] were born. I was supporting the dismantling of apartheid when America was standing on the sidelines and only a few people knew what apartheid was about.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to demonstrations against his presence while giving a speech at St. Frances Academy fund-raising dinner, 20 May 1991.
“I believe people are not free if all they can do is cast a vote every five years to decide who should govern them. What does it mean to a man in a shack built by himself with no amenities and not knowing where his next meal is coming from, to vote? An election is about power. It is relevant to freedom only if those elected govern efficiently, honestly and carry out the electoral promises made.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Mercury (17 November 2009).
“I wish my country were like I wanted it to be, but as it is not, I hope it will one day get to this way of living.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Mercury (17 November 2009).
“To risk making predictions is rather presumptuous and unwise. If I’m wrong, it will never be forgotten. If I’m right, no one will remember.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article in Finansies & Tegniek (1994)
“My Lord, it is difficult to reply in a restrained fashion. My learned friend must not use words such as 'Communist' lightly, when he refers to Kantor. Kantor is not a Communist. My learned friend has used the tactics of McCarthyism in an endeavour to smear him. I think, with respect, my learned friend is allowing himself to run away with facts that are not there. His complaint in count one is not that they found files with evidence. Oh not, he says that we found files with nothing in them. Not in Kantor's office, but in the office of Wolpe. Then my learned friend that the practice had been ruined and liquidated Knator's practice, my lord, it is not Kantor. It is not Kantor! Why I say it is so difficult to be restrained, is that my learned friend has thrown in everything hat concerns every accused in this case, and says 'that is why I don't want Kantor to get bail'.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jimmy Kantor in 'A healthy grave' (1967).