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Thabo Mbeki
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“Aids is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. I don't believe it's a sensible thing to ask: 'Does a virus cause a syndrome?' It can't. A virus will cause a disease. The syndrome is a group of diseases as a result of immune deficiency. As a result of immune deficiency you suffer various diseases.”
Thabo Mbeki (born 1942) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: August 2000, addressing South African Parliament [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/12/aids.chrismcgreal.
“By all means, let's work together.”
Thabo Mbeki (born 1942) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 26 August 2011, University of Stellenbosch .
“Despite the advances we have made in our 12 years of freedom, we must also recognise the reality that we still have a long way to go... We should never allow ourselves the dangerous luxury of complacency, believing that we are immune to the conflicts that we see and have seen in so many parts of the world.”
Thabo Mbeki (born 1942) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fourth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture Address, Johannesburg, South Africa (29 July 2006)
“'I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.”
Thabo Mbeki (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am formed of the migrants who left Europe to find a new home on our native land. Whatever their own actions, they remain still, part of me.”
Thabo Mbeki (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my veins courses the blood of the Malay slaves who came from the East. Their proud dignity informs my bearing, their culture a part of my essence. The stripes they bore on their bodies from the lash of the slave master are a reminder embossed on my consciousness of what should not be done.”
Thabo Mbeki (born 1942) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: speech at the adoption of the The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill, 8 May 1996, Cape Town