apartheid

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1. apartheid - Noun

2. apartheid - Verb

Meaning

a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa

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There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. Lawrence Wright

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized. Nelson Mandela

Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated. Olof Palme

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid. Zola Budd

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority. Steve Biko

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans. Pieter Willem Botha

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