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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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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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And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that its third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, its much more polite. – 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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. – Simone de Beauvoir

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There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. – Antisthenes

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. – Lord Byron

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Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. Im going to fight for you. Im going to fight for whats right. Im going to fight to hold people accountable. – Barbara Boxer

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