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Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: Above Children Conflicts Create Horizons New Owe Stop Them World

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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: About Apartheid Claim End Ended Honor Prefer Talk

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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: Ask Conditions Constantly Create Our Ourselves Peace Prosper Quest Should Which

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I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: Abandon Accept Africa Apartheid Book Discrimination Equal Equal Rights Forms Integral Integral Part Must New Part Played Rights South South Africa United Vision

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I believe that first impressions are very important.

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: Believe First First Impressions Important Impressions Very I Believe I Believe That

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I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: About Apartheid Apology Commission Front Injustices Made Most Occasions Other Profound Truth Were Which Wrought

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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: African Bring Concept Justice Nation Original Seeking South States Through

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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: Aggression Ask Caught Forever Goal History Making Mindless Must Peace Progress Question Self-Destruction Toward Treadmill Turning Universal Up Whether

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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: Action Been February Felt Frame Fulfilled Fulfillment Had Implemented Laid Plan Properly Sense Table Time Time Frame Which Within

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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

~F. W. De Klerk

Topics: Admiration Anything Did Discuss Each Expressing Felt First Generals He His How Ingenious Just Long Long Time Mandela Met Other Out Spent Substance Time War Were

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Statesman

Born: March 18th, 1936

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