Helen Suzman Quotes

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

When you teach, you learn.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.

When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.