Oliver Tambo

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Oliver Tambo

The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.

Oliver Tambo

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

Oliver Tambo

I didn’t really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

Oliver Tambo

I was just an ordinary student. I’d always gotten along with authorities quite well.

Oliver Tambo

I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

Oliver Tambo

If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.

Oliver Tambo

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

Oliver Tambo

It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

Oliver Tambo

My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.

Oliver Tambo