Joe Slovo Quotes
No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.
We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.
It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.
You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.
As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.
One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.
Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.