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Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was t

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I cant do anything about that. – Miriam Makeba

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Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you wont get run over. – Miriam Makeba

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Its a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I dont see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. – Miriam Makeba

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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. – Miriam Makeba

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck

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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – theyre gonna cough. – Barbra Streisand

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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