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Mamphela Ramphele
12 quotes
“Our diversity should be seen as a strength, not a weakness.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True liberation comes not only from political freedom but also from economic and social justice.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We carry scars in our minds and bodies as toxins. Our failure to sit together and acknowledge to one another the wounds and pain of our divided past is undermining our humanity.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You either get destroyed by pain or you get strengthened by it.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If your mind is imprisoned, you're imprisoned.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People whose minds were freed were not going to go back into the box.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mandela's leadership welded together segments of society.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why would a person's education be interrupted because they refused to wave a flag?”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My crime was daring to have books that the apartheid government deemed unhealthy for a native's mind.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive; she is the ultimate outsider.”
Mamphela Ramphele (born 1947) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LibQuotes reproducing a quotation from Across Boundaries (1996) by Mamphela Aletta Ramphele.