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The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

~Breyten Breytenbach

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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

~Breyten Breytenbach

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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

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Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

~Breyten Breytenbach

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I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

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In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

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In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

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It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

~Breyten Breytenbach

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Writer

Born: September 16th, 1939

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