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[[File:AfrikaanseTaalmonumentSlogan.jpg|thumb|right|Emblazoned on the entranceway to the [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|Afrikaans Language Monument]]:<center>''Dit is ons erns''</center>"It is our solemnity" is a paraphrasing of [[w:Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan)|Onze Jan]]'s question of 1905: "Is it our solemnity?" (''Is 't ons ernst?'')]]
'''[[w:Afrikaans|Afrikaans]]''' is a [[w:West Germanic languages|West Germanic]] language spoken in [[South Africa]], [[Namibia]], and, to a lesser extent, [[Botswana]], [[w:Zambia|Zambia]], and [[Zimbabwe]]. It evolved from the [[w:Dutch language|Dutch vernacular]] spoken by the European (mainly Dutch, French, and German) settlers and their [[w:Slavery in South Africa|slaves in South Africa]]. Starting in the late 17th century, it gradually developed distinguishing characteristics and received formal recognition as a distinct language in the early 20th century. With about seven million native speakers in South Africa, or 13.5% of the population, it is the third most spoken language in the country.

== Quotes ==
===17th century===
* A custom exists among our entire nation, where the inland peoples acquire the Dutch language, that they pronounce it in a very crooked and incomprehensible way, and cause us to imitate them therein, so that our Dutch children also acquire this practice, and the basis is laid for a broken language which eventually will be impossible to exterminate. Even less shall we be able to introduce the Dutch language among the Hottentot peoples, while they lack no competence in pronouncing the words correctly, without error, if you endeavor to dictate carefully to them, to which we should invest somewhat greater care.
** [[w:Hendrik van Rheede|Hendrik van Rheede]] anticipates a [[w:patois|patois]] in his 1685 diary, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 148, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

===18th century===
* The language of the rural people is as little pure Dutch as the language of German farmers is pure German. The men have a fulsome speech and the women folk have assumed ways of speaking which at times are truly ridiculous.
* Translated from German: ''Die Sprache der Landleute ist so wenig reine Holländische Mundart als die teutschen Bauern reines Teutsch sprechen. Die Mannspersonen nehmen das Maul dabei sehr voll, und das Frauenvolk hat Redensarten angenommen, die zuweilen recht lächerlich sind. Zum Exempel. Man frägt etwan, ob sie keine Bibel haben, so erfolgt die Antwort: "Onz heeft" geen Bijbel ... Wenn man sie aber aldann frägt: Wie viel Unzen gehen auf ein Pfund? so werden die schamroth.''
** Otto Friedrich Mentzel in Vollständige geographische und topographische Beschreibung des afrikanischen Vorgebirges der Guten Hoffnung, Volume II, Chapter 7, Glogau (1785–1787), as quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, pp. 149–150, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}. Mentzel proceeds by quoting an example of their affected grammar which suggests future Afrikaans.

===19th century===
* He had lost his mother tongue almost completely and acquired the mutilated Dutch of the colonists.
** [[w:Martin Lichtenstein|Martin Lichtenstein]] in Reisen im südlichen Afrika II (1803–1806), p. 151, in reference to German botanist J. A. Auge who settled in the Cape and assumed the vernacular.

* [I am acquainted with] that kind of bastard Dutch which was spoken in this country by the farmers and slaves, as well as among the Hottentots and various other heathen races, and which is not entirely absent from the speech of even the most cultured among Christians and the upper classes of people.
** J. G. Swaving referring to the Cape-Dutch he encountered as an interpreter at the Cape Supreme Court in 1828, as quoted in [https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02590190_585 The Coloured Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town] by Achmat Davids, p. 39.
[[File:Changuion.png|right|thumb|... cleanse from the Dutch spoken in this Colony ... words and expressions which are either entirely strange, or mutilated – [[w:Antoine Changuion|Antoine Changuion]]]]
* The main purpose of the following collection, as one can immediately infer from the title of our work, was to eradicate from the Dutch spoken in this Colony, if it can be referred to by that name, words and expressions which are either entirely strange, or mutilated, or at least to indicate in which way this may be done.
* Translated from Dutch: ''Het hoofddoel van de volgende verzameling, gelijk men al dadelijk uit den titel van ons werk kan afleiden, was om het Nederduitsch, voor zoo ver de taal, die in deze Kolonie gesproken wordt, dien naam dragen mag, van deels geheel vreemde, deels verminkte woorden en spreekwijzen te zuiveren, of althans den weg daartoe aan te wijzen.''

** [[w:Antoine Changuion|Antoine N. E. Changuion]] in Proeve van Kaapsch Taaleigen, included as a supplement to the second edition (1848) of his Nederduitsche taal in Zuid-Afrika hersteld [i.e. "Dutch language restored in South Africa"], Rotterdam: J. van der Vliet (1844).

* You can trust me that the ''plat Hollands'' is read more among us farmers than that which Changuion wants to teach us in his booklets.
* Translated from [[w:Cape Dutch|Cape Dutch]]: ''Jij kan ver mij gloo dat die plat Hollans meer gelees wor onder ons boere as die wat Sankion ver ons wil leer in zijn boekies.''
** A resident of [[w:Montagu, Western Cape|Montagu]] writing in reply to Changuion, as quoted by [[w:Johannes du Plessis Scholtz|Scholtz, J. du P.]] (1965). Die Afrikaner en sy taal 1806-1875: p. 180. Cape Town: Nasou.

* The language of the Cape! … As if the miserable, bastard jargon, which is the vernacular of this country, is worthy of the name of language at all. … The poverty of expression in this jargon is such, that we defy any man to express thought in it above the merest common-place … There can be no literature with such a language, for poor as it is, it is hardly a written one … Let, then, your language and your nationality go, and believe us, you need not fear for your religion.
** Editorial in [[w:Cape Argus|The Cape Argus]], 19 September 1857, a call for the extermination of the "atrocious vernacular of the Cape", the supposed nationality associated with it, and its replacement by English, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 212, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

* You neither speak Dutch, that is the pure old Holland vernacular, much less would you soil your lips with the [[w:patois|patois]] of the Hottentots about us. This I am sure is no offence, if I say you express your thoughts in a way which is not recognised in your pulpits, is not read in your books of law, does not figure in your scientific folios, and far less is it recognised as a language of an enlightened people, for it does not provide a descent vocabulary for the lowest of the low, nor for the highest of the lofty … It is one which is doing you and your children incalculable harm. It cramps your thoughts. It impedes your energies. It brings the blush to every modest women's cheeks, and makes the educated recoil with disgust too often. It corrupts the morals of your children, and befouls their innocent expressions ...
**The Cape Monitor, 14 October 1857, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 212, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

* People tell you that Afrikaans isn't a language, because it is composed of Dutch, French, Hottentot, etc. However, the manner in which the English language is patched together is wisely hidden.
** Rev. [[w:Stephanus Jacobus du Toit|S. J. du Toit]], ''[[w:De Zuid-Afrikaan|De Zuid-Afrikaan]]'', 11 July 1874.

* True Afrikaners, we call on you to acknowledge with us that the Afrikaans language is the mother tongue that our Dear Lord gave us; and to make a stand with us through thick and thin for our language; and not to rest before our language is generally acknowledged as the national language of our country.
** Exhortation in ''[[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|Die Afrikaanse Patriot]]'', 15 January 1876.

* An attempt is being made by a number of jokers near Cape Town to reduce the "plat Hollands" of the street and the kitchen to a written language and perpetuate it. They are carrying their joke well. They have a newspaper, have published a history of the colony, an almanack, and to crown the joke — a grammar. ... The promoters of the ''Patriot'' (accent the last syllable) movement are laughed at and ridiculed but they stick to their joke.
**The English press of Cape Town derides the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]], 1876, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 49, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.
[[File:John_Henry_De_Villiers_-_Baron_and_Attorney_General_-_Cape_Colony.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Poor in the number of its words, weak in its inflections, wanting in accuracy of meaning – [[w:John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers|Lord J. H. de Villiers]]]]

* Poor in the number of its words, weak in its inflections, wanting in accuracy of meaning and incapable in expressing ideas connected with the higher spheres of thought, it will have to undergo great modification before it will be able to produce a literature worthy of the name.
** [[w:John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers|Lord J. H. de Villiers]] in 1876, quoted in ''The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: "The First Congress" Phenomenon'', Joshua A. Fishman (ed.), p. 12

* [They] who … see no possibility of maintaining, or, rather, of restoring among the mass of the old Colonists the language of Holland, would keep out English by trying to make the lingo and slang of the lowest Hottentots the language of these people – even South Africa.
** [[w:Cape Argus|The Cape Argus]], 19 September 1877, commenting on the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]] and their followers, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 56, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* The protection of our mother tongue must be the most important consideration of such a Bond, for language and nation are one, and those who do not see this as objective, had better not become members of our bond
**Translated from Afrikaans: ''Die beskerming van ons Landstaal moet hoofsaak wees van so 'n Bond, want taal en nasie es een, en di wat dit ni tot doelwit stel ni, moet liewers ni lid worde van ons bond ni''
** Rev. [[w:Stephanus Jacobus du Toit|S. J. du Toit]] of the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]] on the [[w:Afrikaner Bond|Afrikaner Bond]] party, c. 1881, which would include [[w:Cecil John Rhodes|C. J. Rhodes]] as member, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, pp. 55–56, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* [Although] phonetically Teutonic, it is psychologically essentially a Hottentot idiom. ... It can hardly be expected that the descendants of the Malayo-Polynesian slaves and Hottentot servants, who originally spoke an agglutinative tongue, will have any improving influence on an inflecting language.
** Dr. Theophilus Hahn in a lecture at the [[w:National Library of South Africa|South African Public Library]] on 29 April 1882, as quoted in [https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02590190_585 The Coloured Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town] by Achmat Davids, p. 37

* For intellectual training Africander Dutch offers no scope, for it has no literature and a very poor vocabulary. For internal intercourse and as a trade-medium English is superior to it; and for foreign trade it stands nowhere.
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] as a [[w:Stellenbosch University|Victoria College]] student in 1893, quoted in [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/kann003gesk01_01/kann003gesk01_01_0016.php J. C. Kannemeyer], Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur 1., p. 173, ''Academica'', Pretoria / Cape Town, 1984.

===20th century===
* Afrikaans ... elegant; so simple, serious, and earnest.
** Translated from Dutch: ''Afrikaansch ... mooi; zoo eenvoudig, ernstig, en oprecht gemeend''
** [[:af:Hjalmar Reitz|Hjalmar Reitz]] in 1903, as quoted in Boer en Brit: Afrikaanse en Nederlandse tekste uit en om die Anglo-Boereoorlog, p. 285, by Ena Jansen & Wilfred Jonckheere, 1999.

* The general does not use pure Afrikaans in his speeches, nor a Dutch that can easily be confused with the language of a Dutchman, but a kind of Afrikaans with Dutch inflections that he inserts haphazardly without any particular plan, so that every now and then, by pure chance, he gets one of them in the right place.
** Translated from Afrikaans: ''Die generaal gebruik nie suiwer Afrikaans in sijn toesprake nie en ook nie 'n Hollands wat met die taal van 'n Hollander maklik kan verwar word nie, maar 'n soort Afrikaans met hollandse verbuiginge wat hij sonder 'n bepaalde plan holderste bolder inlas sodat daar nou en dan bij toeval een op die regte plek kom.''
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] commenting on the language spoken by general [[w:Louis Botha|Louis Botha]], quoted in Kannemeyer, J. C., 1995. "Langenhoven. 'n Lewe.", ''Tafelberg'', p. 302

* For how long shall we entertain two thoughts? If Dutch is our language, why do we not speak it? If Afrikaans is our language, why do we not write it?
**Translated from Afrikaans: ''Hoe lank sal ons hink op twee gedagtes? As Nederlands ons taal is, waarom praat ons hom nie? As Afrikaans ons taal is, waarom skryf ons hom nie?''
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] in 1911, quoted by J. C. Kannemeyer, p. 241, 1995.

* The Provincial Council accepted my motion that enables Afrikaans as a permissible medium up to the fourth standard.
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] in a telegram to his wife on 23 April 1914, quoted in J. C. Kannemeyer, 1995, pp. 296–7. It implied that Afrikaans received official status in the Cape as medium of instruction in the first six school years, and would effectively replace Dutch in this respect. The Christian community at [[w:Genadendal |Genadendal]] and the Muslim community of the Dorp street [[w:Madrasa|madrasa]], Cape Town, had however used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction many years earlier.

* Be loyal unto death to your traditions, to your religion, to your language and to your people.
* Translated from Afrikaans/Dutch: ''Wees getrou tot den dood aan uwe tradities, aan uw Godsdie[nst,] aan uw taal, aan uw volk.''
** Final admonition by [[Jopie Fourie]] before his execution on 20 December 1914, as quoted by Luan Schalkwyk in [https://www.kraaluitgewers.co.za/jopie-fourie-rebelle-held-se-afskeidsbrief-ure-voor-sy-dood/ Jopie Fourie: Rebelle-held se afskeidsbrief ure voor sy dood], ''Kraal Uitgewers'', 21 June 2017.

* If Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom went to ruin it would be an irrevocable catastrophe for South Africa. And it must not happen under any circumstances, for who has up to now preserved Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom? Not these people who hold symposia and talk big. The National Party brought Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom into being. ... Afrikaans is spoken in circles in which it was never spoken before. Today there is respect for Afrikaans from people who never had respect for it before. We should not complain that Afrikaans is going to ruin [due to language policy]. We should take pride and rejoice that Afrikaans is progressing with rapid strides in South Africa!
** [[John Vorster]] in his [http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/extract-speech-made-heilbron-16-august-1968 Heilbron speech] on 16 August 1968, as quoted in ''sahistory.org.za''.

* ...a bridge between the great, luminous West and magical Africa … Our task lies in the current and future implementation of this gleaming vehicle ...
** [[w:N. P. van Wyk Louw|N. P. van Wyk Louw]], quoted on a plaque at the [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|Afrikaans Language Monument]]
[[File:MakgobaHillLecture.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Afrikaans is a cancer that must be destroyed – [[w:Malegapuru William Makgoba|M. W. Makgoba]]]]
* Were it not that Afrikaans literature glorifies white supremacy, and were it not for the unutterable evil this literature breathes, one would simply dismiss it as inane, a crushing bore.
**[[w:Es'kia Mphahlele|Es'kia Mphahlele]], 1974, The Function of Literature at the Present Time: The Ethnic Imperative.
::– Literature in the ethos of Boerneef, 1938, ''Boplaas'', is taken to be intended here, which would treat its coloured figures as "obedient serfs" in a "feudal order", while former critics merely observed a "natural hierarchy" or "idyll".
::''cf''. [[w:Jakes Gerwel|Jakes Gerwel]], 1983, Literatuur en Apartheid. Gerwel points out similar sentiments expressed in Mphahlele, 1962, ''The African Image'', p. 107.
::''cf''. Godfrey Meintjes, 1995, Re-viewing the Past: Notes on the Rereading of Canonized Literary Texts, Rhodes University
::''cf''. Ampie Coetzee, Afrikaans Literature in the Service of Ethnic Politics?, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 103, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* Will Afrikaans survive the Afrikaner empire?
**[[w:Jakes Gerwel|Jakes Gerwel]] in 1975, quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* The recent strikes by schools against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction is a sign of demonstration against schools' systematised to producing 'good industrial boys' for the powers that be... We therefore resolve to totally reject the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction, to fully support the students who took the stand in the rejection of this dialect [and] also to condemn the racially separated education system.
** Resolution at a conference in Roodepoort of the South African Student Movement (SASM), proposed by V. Ngema and seconded by T. Motapanyane on 28 May 1976, denouncing Afrikaans and promoting boycotting of classes, as quoted in [http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/resolution-against-use-afrikaans-taken-during-sasm-conference-roodepoort A resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort], ''sahistory.org.za''

* The government is prepared to be as accommodating as possible as far as the use of Afrikaans at African schools is concerned. ... In the white areas of South Africa [however, including Soweto], where the government erects the buildings, grants the subsidies and pays the teachers, it is our right to decide on language policy. The same applies to schools in areas where there is no compulsory education. Why are pupils sent to schools if [the government's] language policy does not suit them?
** [[w:Andries Treurnicht|Andries Treurnicht]] on 17 June 1976 in Windhoek, in the aftermath of the [[w:Soweto uprising|Soweto riots]], as quoted in [http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/down-afrikaans-oakes-d-ed1988-illustrated-history-south-africa-%26ndash%3B-real-story-reader%E2%80%99s-digest- Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed.), 1988. Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest: Cape Town], ''sahistory.org.za''

* Unfortunately Afrikaans acquired certain historic connotations that resulted in its rejection by the black man, and these are political connotations.
**[[w:Steve Biko|Steve Biko]] (1946–1977) quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* And Afrikaans, this child from the soil of Africa, has already become an instrument for millions of people – yes, for more than just the Afrikaner … God's plan, however, had been the creation of another civilization with a new language from Africa … Afrikaans and this beautiful southern land are undeniably grown together.
**[[P. W. Botha]], quoted in [[w:The Citizen (South Africa)|The Citizen]], 19 May 1985.

* Afrikaans is a language that grew and developed from the soil of South Africa, aided by a variety of languages and cultures in our land, rooted in the search for an own identity and freedom. Its power and hope for the future has never been based on special privilege; but rather as one of the languages of South Africa which will have to meet the future shoulder to shoulder, with mutual respect and equal rights.
** [[Nelson Mandela]], in an [http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/1995/950817_atkv.htm address] to the [[w:ATKV|ATKV]], delivered in Afrikaans on 17 August 1995.

===21st century===
* At present local English does not seem to have any particular social value, and thus there is no apparent reason for its speakers to wish to preserve its distinctive features. This is not true of non-standard Afrikaans, which is valued as warm, intimate, and a sign of membership of the community.
** Kay McCormick in "Language in South Africa", p. 224, Rajend Mesthrie (ed.), 17 October 2002.

* Seen socio-linguistically, a language can never fully clothe the intellectual and affective life of its speakers unless granted entree to all functions. Of particular importance is that a language must enjoy access to the academic-scientific fields of language such as in politics, law, the media, and the university. Throughout the twentieth century, for just the reason of realising this ideal, immense expertise and energy went into developing Afrikaans. One thinks ... of the numerous scholars who could have made their mark internationally but chose instead to devote themselves to Afrikaans.
** H. P. van Coller in "The Medium of Teaching at South African Universities: the Position of Afrikaans" (August 2002), as quoted in "Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century", p. 106, ''Rodopi'', 2005.

* ...architect Jan van Wijk’s [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|remarkable 1975 tribute]] to one of the world’s ugliest languages makes, if nothing else, a great picnic spot on the way to the wine lands of Franschhoek and Stellenbosch.
**Bronwyn Davies or editor Richard Cook, in [[w:Wallpaper (magazine)|Wallpaper]], September 2005.

*…as it happens I am Afrikaans. …I actually do not think about it too much, just as I do not think about it too much that I have a liver. The current flutterings about Afrikaans, however, I find disturbing. It is not doing the image of Afrikaners, and hence also of Afrikaans, any good. …to beat one's chest in such a self-justificatory manner [a mere ten years after the end of apartheid] is bad taste morally. […] We are … being called up by certain parties to mobilise for Afrikaans, to fight for the survival of Afrikaans, and for minority rights. The problem is, however, that I do not see myself currently as part of a minority. When, in the 1970s and 1980s, as an Afrikaner, I resisted apartheid – and not in the 1990s when it became fashionable – then I felt myself part of a minority.
**[[Paul Cilliers]] in a letter to ''Die Burger'' (10 October 2005), as cited in ''No Lesser Place: The Taaldebat at Stellenbosch'', p. 133, Chris Brink (2006)

* At school, Afrikaans was a compulsory subject that I disliked intensely; it was a harsh language, like the people who spoke it. [...] In my father’s shop, ... I found ... to my surprise, that I was beginning to enjoy the language. [The] warm straightforwardness and ... earthiness in many of these people ... was richly and idiomatically expressed in their speech. And, although I have never advanced beyond being able to speak a sort of kombuistaal, I delighted in our conversations.
** [[:w:David Goldblatt|David Goldblatt]] in "Some Afrikaners Photographed, 1975 – Some Afrikaners Revisited, 2006", 2006.

* Slaves and Khoikhoi servants had the greatest hand in the development of the restructured Dutch. In the course of the eighteenth century both burghers and their servants, in interaction with each other, took the restructuring further. Dutch was simplified and a considerable amount of Malayo-Portuguese, as spoken the slaves, was injected. By the end of the century Cape Dutch had largely become what is now Afrikaans. In the western Cape, especially in its rural towns and farms, the main variety of Afrikaans took root as the shared cultural creation...
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* The first attempt to formulate a distinctive Afrikaner historiography was made by [Afrikaner] residents of the small town of Paarl [who] founded the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Society of True Afrikaners). They were effectively reacting against cultural domination by the British colonial regime. ... They based their own history on publications by European authors who were critical of British imperialism and on private correspondence and interviews with fellow Afrikaners. Though this was simple, naive history, it was a path-breaking achievement. It was the first book published in Afrikaans – the spoken language of the people – as distinct from Dutch, from which it had grown apart in the South African milieu by simplifying the syntax, changing the vowel sounds, losing vocabulary items that were not relevant, and incorporating loan words from the other languages that were spoken at the Cape in the eighteenth century – Malay, Portuguese creole, and Khoikhoi.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* The seeds planted by the Paarl thought leadership did not bear much fruit so long as Afrikaners were divided between colonial and republican regimes. ... In spite of many setbacks, Afrikaner leadership gradually attained their nationalist goals... They also re-segregated the white group into Afrikaans-speaking versus the rest. Afrikaans became the premier official language while English was given second-class treatment. The leadership vowed that there was to be no mixing of language, no mixing of cultures, no mixing of religions and no mixing of races.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* At the heart of Afrikaner nationalist struggle was the attempt to imagine a new national community with its language enjoying parity of esteem with English in the public sphere. ... This meant that Afrikaans had to be heard in parliament, the civil service, schools, colleges and universities, and in the world of business and finance; it had to be the medium of newspapers, novels, and poems, giving expression to what was truly South African. Instead of English-speakers portraying Afrikaners in reports, novels or histories as everything they were not: unrefined, semi-literate, racist, dogmatic, and unprogressive, Afrikaners had to define and represent themselves as the true South Africans.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* A good local example of [the process of promoting a language] is Afrikaans: a 150 years ago, Afrikaans was generally regarded as “a mere vernacular” (in the negative sense of the word), used only in the lowest social functions, was without a writing system and had no literature. Gradually, however, it became used as an instrument in the struggle against the imperialism of the British colonial government and against the Dutch-oriented elite’s preference for Dutch (and English) in high-function contexts[.] A number of teachers and church ministers then initiated a movement directed at the development (corpus planning) and promotion (status and prestige planning) of Afrikaans. Gradually, a feeling of pride in and loyalty to Afrikaans developed, and within about 60 years Afrikaans was recognised as a language of the public domain[,] a fully-fledged standard language.
** Michel Lafon and Vic Webb in [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00449090/document The Standardisation of African Languages ― Language political realities], p. 17, ''IFAS'', 2008.

* Few languages have engendered as much controversy, with regard to both historical development and place in modern society.
** Anthony F. Buccini and co-authors in [https://www.britannica.com/topic/West-Germanic-languages#ref603807 West Germanic languages: Afrikaans], ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', 2010.

* Afrikaans will survive and develop further in a range of dialects. That is important to me, that type of freedom. The Afrikaners don’t mean much to me.
** [[w:Koos Kombuis|Koos Kombuis]], as quoted in [https://mg.co.za/article/2013-04-12-00-oh-broeder-where-is-the-volk-now/ Oh broeder, where is the volk now?], Staff Reporter, ''Mail & Guardian'', 12 April 2013.

* This is why Afrikaans-exclusive or even Afrikaans-dominant white schools and universities represent a serious threat to race relations in South Africa. You simply cannot prepare young people for dealing with the scars of our violent past without creating optimal opportunities in the educational environment for living and learning together.
** Jonathan Jansen, [[w:Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[w:University of the Free State|University of the Free State]] in the [http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lees-dit-self-Hier-is-wat-prof-Jonathan-Jansen-se-oor-Afrikaans-op-skool-20131003 The Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture] on 18 September 2013, as quoted in [[w:Rapport (newspaper)|Rapport]]. Also see [https://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-04-wrest-power-from-english-tyranny Jansen: Wrest power from English tyranny], ''Mail & Guardian'', 4 October 2013.

* Afrikaans is a cancer that must be destroyed.
** Prof. [[w:Malegapuru William Makgoba|M. W. Makgoba]], [[w:Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[w:University of KwaZulu-Natal|University of KwaZulu-Natal]], in support of suggestions that Afrikaans courses be discontinued at this university, quoted in [[w:Beeld|Beeld]], 24 October 2013.

* By the 1990s Afrikaans was no longer the instrument of a chauvinistic Afrikaner nationalism. Afrikaner historians had begun to stress the multifaceted nature of our history, Afrikaans as a medium of instruction was no longer imposed on black schools and the language had been scaled back drastically on state radio and television. But [it could be celebrated that] Afrikaans, along with only three others (Hebrew, Indonesian and Hindi) were the only languages that in the course of the twentieth century made the transition from a low status, spoken language to a language used in all walks of public life, including literature, science and technology.
** [[w:Hermann Giliomee|Hermann Giliomee]] in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-war-against-afrikaans-at-stellenbosch The war against Afrikaans at Stellenbosch], ''politicsweb'', 28 April 2016.

* The past 15 years have been characterised by an increasing migration of Afrikaans speakers into the digital space – a space that offers exciting new opportunities for Afrikaans.
** Laurette Pretorius in [http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0041-47512016000400007 The role of the Afrikaans Wikipedia in the growth of Afrikaans], Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, vol. 56, no. 2-1, pp. 371-390, 2016.

* ... socio-political history often casts Afrikaans as the language of racists, oppressors and unreconstructed nationalists. But [Afrikaans] also bears the imprint of a fierce tradition of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, of an all-embracing humanism and anti-apartheid activism.
** [[w:Hein Willemse|Hein Willemse]] of the [[w:University of Pretoria|University of Pretoria]], [http://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2465048-more-than-an-oppressors-language-reclaiming-the-hidden-history-of-afrikaans More than an oppressor's language: reclaiming the hidden history of Afrikaans], 12 May 2017.

* The world [of 2017] looks completely different than in 1937. Then, communication was limited, and the introduction of radio – in Afrikaans – changed the world.
** SABC in [http://www.sabc2.co.za/sabc/home/sabc2/news/details?id=31216093-fdf3-4893-a9d9-73472a0e4d75 RSG celebrates 80 years of Afrikaans radio], 26 October 2017.

* ''[[w:Die Kandidaat|Die Kandidaat]]'', ''[[w:Katrina (film)|Katrina]]'' and ''[[w:Jannie totsiens|Jannie Totsiens]]'' constitute the golden era of Afrikaans film, as they delivered products of quality and intent which have probably not been met since. … these dynamic films sought to open up the eyes of the viewers to the brutally harmful and hurtful results of institutionalised apartheid on the other segments of the society, especially so to the so-called “Coloured” community. [Their] exclusion [from] Afrikaner identity, though sharing most of the culture and speaking the same language as “Afrikaners”, forms a central theme…
** Elmarie van Huyssteen in ''Unmasking Violations Against Human Dignity in Selected Afrikaans Films in South Africa 1960-1976: A Practical Theological Investigation'', an M.Phil. dissertation at the University of Stellenbosch, December 2017.

* A language without a commercial value will die.
** Willie Hofmeyr of [[w:Naspers|Nasionale Pers]], quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* The youth culture grabs the young language by its foreskin and gives it its first democratic climax!
** [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]] quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* It is unbelievable and / or unfortunate that even until today in this constitutional democracy we still have a society that sees nothing wrong with a language that was used as a tool of segregation and discrimination during apartheid which 90 percent of South African[s] bemoan; a language whose legacy is sorrow and tears to the majority of whom it was not their mother tongue.
** Submission by Criselda Makhubela, the Sedibeng East district director, to judge Bill Prinsloo of the North Gauteng High Court in ''[http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPPHC/2017/949.pdf Overvaal Hoërskool vs. Edward Mosuwe], Head of the Gauteng Department of Education'', early January 2018.

* By the time the protesters outside Hoërskool Overvaal lobbed a petrol bomb at the police, it was clear that something as simple as a school’s language policy could still inflame deadly passions 41 years after the Soweto Uprising against Afrikaans in black schools. I could not help thinking: what is it about Afrikaans that brings out the worst in us?
** Jonathan Jansen, distinguished professor in Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University, in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/opinion/2018-01-25-why-afrikaans-still-has-the-power-to-inflame-deadly-passions-in-sa/ Why Afrikaans still has the power to inflame deadly passions in SA], ''DispatchLive'', 25 January 2018.

* The courageous fight of the Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad against the apartheid state, its unearthing of apartheid secrets during the states of emergency in Afrikaans needs a firmer place in our Struggle history. The vicious responses to Max du Preez, Jacques Pauw and Vrye Weekblad journalists by the apartheid state, where the courts were used to close it down, is part of the proud resistance history of Afrikaans.
** Danny Titus in [https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/opinion/afrikaansisgroot-whose-language-is-it-anyway-15227846 #AfrikaansIsGroot: Whose language is it anyway?], ''Cape Argus'', 30 May 2018

* I publicly and in my personal capacity disagree with the phasing out of Afrikaans as one of the mediums of teaching at the [[w:University of Pretoria|University of Pretoria]]. As a country, you are shooting yourselves down. You will regret it in 30 years’ time.
** [[w:Tito Mboweni|Tito Mboweni]] in a tweet, as quoted by Goitsemang Tlhabye in [https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/titomboweni-tweet-draws-roses-brickbats-19003640 #TitoMboweni tweet draws roses, brickbats], ''Pretoria News'', 28 January 2019.

* There was some misunderstanding between ourselves and the minority groups in the country, to be quite frank, especially people that are speaking Afrikaans, because the previous regime invested a lot of resources and energy in them. Our coloured communities feel marginalised, not loved, feel they are on the periphery. 
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], the Gauteng education MEC, as quoted by Nonkululeko Njilo in [https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-05-03-panyaza-lesufi-leaves-office-proud-of-advances-in-township-education/ Panyaza Lesufi leaves office proud of advances in township education], ''SowetanLIVE'', 16 April 2019.

* Everyone knows that the [[w:Democratic Alliance|DA]] has failed to stand up for Afrikaans language and cultural rights despite their guarantee in the Constitution.
** [[w:R. W. Johnson|R. W. Johnson]] in [https://www.biznews.com/leadership/2019/05/24/strange-days-da-rw-johnson Strange days in the DA], ''PoliticsWeb'' and ''BizNews'', 22 May 2019.

* For Afrikaans as a language of instruction, this is a major setback. The language's ability to subsequently recover at tertiary level is most limited if aggressive efforts are not made from Afrikaans ranks to keep it alive as a language of instruction. Being pro-Afrikaans does not mean being anti-English. For that we have empathy. This is about the official recognition of a language and everything that happens concerning it. This is about the violation of a basic human right, namely the maintenance of a language.
** Danie van Wyk of the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysontwikkelingstrust in [https://www.litnet.co.za/konstitusionele-hof-wys-weer-hy-dien-engelse-kolonialisme-danie-van-wyk-reageer-op-hofbeslissing/ Konstitusionele Hof dien Afrikaans ’n gevoelige slag toe], commenting on the judgement of the [[w:Constitutional Court of South Africa|Constitutional Court]] in [https://www.litnet.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/FinalJudgmentCCT311-17Gelyke-KansevStellenbosch-University.pdf Gelyke Kanse vs. Senate of the University of Stellenbosch] (2019), ''LitNet'', 11 October 2019.

* The fact the [[w:Supreme Court of Appeal (South Africa)|Supreme Court of Appeal]] delivered this ruling is of great interest – it is the highest court that has yet ruled in favour of Afrikaans education on tertiary level. The cost order against [[w:University of South Africa|Unisa]] further confirms the moral high ground of students who demand the right to education in their native language. ... The ruling emphasises that Afrikaans also has a place on government-supported campuses.
** Alana Bailey of [[w:AfriForum|Afriforum]] quoted in [https://www.afriforum.co.za/en/afriforum-ruling-on-unisa-language-policy-an-enormous-victory-for-afrikaans/ Afriforum: Ruling on Unisa Language Policy an Enormous Victory for Afrikaans], ''Afriforum'', 1 July 2020.


* ... the [[w:Democratic Alliance|DA]] is already preparing for a historic and unprecedented political campaign to demand that Afrikaans be equated with English at [[w:Stellenbosch University|SU]].
** Dr. [[w:Leon Schreiber|Leon Schreiber]], DA-[[w:National Assembly of South Africa|MP]], quoted in [https://maroelamedia.co.za/nuus/sa-nuus/da-publiseer-bewyse-van-us-rektor-se-aanval-op-moedertaalonderrig/ DA publiseer bewyse van US-rektor se aanval op moedertaalonderrig], ''Maroela Media'', 18 October 2020.


* Inclusivity means that you involve all the speakers of all the varieties on an equal footing. No variety, including the standard variety, is considered more important than the others. Afrikaans is the sum of the language's varieties. We need to be able to greet each other with a ''mirrag'', ''hoesit'', ''saloet'' and ''aweh''. ... Broad alliances – in the spirit of the multilingualism advocate dr. [[w:Neville Alexander|Neville Alexander]] – is required to oppose the hegemony of English and create space for the indigenous languages, Afrikaans included.
** Dr. Conrad Steenkamp of the Afrikaanse Taalraad, quoted in [https://maroelamedia.co.za/afrikaans/afrikaanse-taalraad-se-nuwe-direksie-fokus-op-taaldiversiteit-inklusiwiteit/ Afrikaanse Taalraad se nuwe direksie fokus op taaldiversiteit-inklusiwiteit], ''Maroela Media'', 19 October 2020.

* ... the new language policy [at Stellenbosch University] must explicitly commit to increasing the Afrikaans offer to ensure full access for all deserving students who wish to study in Afrikaans ...
** Dr. [[w:Leon Schreiber|Leon Schreiber]], DA-[[w:National Assembly of South Africa|MP]], quoted by Unathi Nkanjeni in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-03-23-make-afrikaans-equal-to-english-da-launches-petition-to-end-war-against-mother-tongue-at-su/ 'Make Afrikaans equal to English': DA launches petition to end 'war' against mother tongue at SU], ''TimesLive'', 23 March 2021.

* ... one finds that that those who are calling for the exclusive use of Afrikaans in certain schools are actually inviting antipathy [which takes the] form of annual political football that politicians use to their advantage, which is a shame. Afrikaans is not an exclusive language for racist Afrikaners. In fact, the majority of its speakers, by dint of history, are not “Afrikaners”, ...
** Mashudu Mashige, research professor at [[w:University of Venda|University of Venḓa]], in [https://www.litnet.co.za/abusing-language-for-narrow-socio-political-and-racist-interests/ (Ab)using language for narrow socio-political and racist interests], ''Litnet'', 2 March 2022.

==See also==
* [[Afrikaans proverbs]]

== External links ==
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{{Wikivoyage|Afrikaans phrasebook|Afrikaans|a phrasebook}}
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Julius Malema

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[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]

'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa
[[File:Africa Flag Map.png 2023.png|right|thumb|<center>Civilization started here.]]
* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022
[[file:Julius Malema, EFF CIC (2019).png|thumb|right|We are [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] and Putin is us, and we will never support [[imperialism]] against president Putin.]]
* Russians have not done anything wrong to anyone. You have a problem, go and talk to NATO. It is the one that provoked Russia and Russia it is well within its right to defend itself. So the Russian foreign minister was at home. ... So, we are happy that they saw it befitting to respect us and to come to us as a way of saying we respect you and we want to give you a some form of an explanation as to what is really happening in our country, and all of that. We can't say the same about this one of Treasury of the USA, who was coming to steal our minerals and our wildlife. I don't know what she was doing in those game farms and all of that, and the Reserve Bank, and she came here to monitor their puppet if it's following the instructions of surrendering the sovereignty of South Africa. So, America can never be welcomed here in South Africa and the African continent because we now when they come here, they are coming to check what more can we steal and finish off this continent. So, she was even going to Mpumalanga to go and run some symposiums or something on just transitions, and how renewables work. You can see that she was preparing to indoctrinate our people to abandon coal so that they can enjoy to build their economies with our coal. ... So, she was not welcomed here.
** Contrasting the state visit by Russian foreign minister [[:en:Sergey Lavrov|Sergey Lavrov]], with that of American treasury secretary [[:en:Janet Yellen|Janet Yellen]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5mTTW82ys The Russian foreign minister is at home in South Africa: Julius Malema], Africa Web TV, 30 January 2023

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that [[wikipedia:Reuben Brigety|Reuben Brigety]], the US Ambassador to South Africa, be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

* Donald Trump is not saying anything we have not heard from white people. ... I still have to meet a white person who support expropriation of land without compensation. So why are you shocked? ... I don't have time for nonsense, I expected this. And more, backlash is going to come. If South Africans are not ready to expropriate the land because they are scared of sanctions, they are scared of backlash, then don't vote for the EFF. Because you vote for us, we are going to expropriate land. And Donald Trump will come for us, and Britain will come for us, and EU will come for us. ...for everything good comes the pain before. If you are not prepared South Africa to take the pain, then forget about the land. ... We know that the first response will be killing. They will kill us for that. There is a group of white rightwingers who are being trained by Jews in Pretoria to be snipers. ... So we know that death is the first price that we are prepared to pay. The second price we are prepared to pay for this land is poverty. They will close taps. But if there is a conviction, ... and not [[wikipedia:sloganeering|sloganeering]] and public opinions, then we must be prepared for everything. It is a war. We must be prepared for Donald Trump and all of them, we are not scared of them. ... There is no white genocide here, it is an absolute rubbish. ... There is black genocide in the USA. They are killing black people in the USA. There is black genocide here in South Africa. Black people are being killed all the time. ... We are not going to be distracted by anyone. Only death will stop us, not Trump, not poverty, not sanctions. ... We know the consequences of what we are asking for. ... So Afriforum is the embassy of the USA. If you want issues to reach USA, then go to Afriforum. Then you shall get a proper response. ... We are not scared of Afriforum.
** At a news conference, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJVkQCpMKI I Don’t Have Time for Nonsense!": Malema Rebukes Trump for Threats Against South Africa (Throwback)], The Africa News Network, 11 February 2025

* How do you say you must expropriate land and give people title deeds? Our people ... won't eat title deed. Here is a paper called title deed, yet you remain poverty stricken, and here is a man with money, who says to me: Give me that paper, I give you the money to eat now. They will take the money. You are setting our people up for failure when you talk title deeds. ... Our people are going to use those title deeds as surety, and they will not be in a position to pay their debt. ... So they are going to give you the land, and come to buy it from you, close to nothing. ... RDP houses are being rented out. The owners of the RDP houses went to squat somewhere.
** At a news conference, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJVkQCpMKI I Don’t Have Time for Nonsense!": Malema Rebukes Trump for Threats Against South Africa (Throwback)], The Africa News Network, 11 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Julius Malema

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[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]

'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022
[[file:Julius Malema, EFF CIC (2019).png|thumb|right|We are [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] and Putin is us, and we will never support [[imperialism]] against president Putin.]]
* Russians have not done anything wrong to anyone. You have a problem, go and talk to NATO. It is the one that provoked Russia and Russia it is well within its right to defend itself. So the Russian foreign minister was at home. ... So, we are happy that they saw it befitting to respect us and to come to us as a way of saying we respect you and we want to give you a some form of an explanation as to what is really happening in our country, and all of that. We can't say the same about this one of Treasury of the USA, who was coming to steal our minerals and our wildlife. I don't know what she was doing in those game farms and all of that, and the Reserve Bank, and she came here to monitor their puppet if it's following the instructions of surrendering the sovereignty of South Africa. So, America can never be welcomed here in South Africa and the African continent because we now when they come here, they are coming to check what more can we steal and finish off this continent. So, she was even going to Mpumalanga to go and run some symposiums or something on just transitions, and how renewables work. You can see that she was preparing to indoctrinate our people to abandon coal so that they can enjoy to build their economies with our coal. ... So, she was not welcomed here.
** Contrasting the state visit by Russian foreign minister [[:en:Sergey Lavrov|Sergey Lavrov]], with that of American treasury secretary [[:en:Janet Yellen|Janet Yellen]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5mTTW82ys The Russian foreign minister is at home in South Africa: Julius Malema], Africa Web TV, 30 January 2023

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that [[wikipedia:Reuben Brigety|Reuben Brigety]], the US Ambassador to South Africa, be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

* Donald Trump is not saying anything we have not heard from white people. ... I still have to meet a white person who support expropriation of land without compensation. So why are you shocked? ... I don't have time for nonsense, I expected this. And more, backlash is going to come. If South Africans are not ready to expropriate the land because they are scared of sanctions, they are scared of backlash, then don't vote for the EFF. Because you vote for us, we are going to expropriate land. And Donald Trump will come for us, and Britain will come for us, and EU will come for us. ...for everything good comes the pain before. If you are not prepared South Africa to take the pain, then forget about the land. ... We know that the first response will be killing. They will kill us for that. There is a group of white rightwingers who are being trained by Jews in Pretoria to be snipers. ... So we know that death is the first price that we are prepared to pay. The second price we are prepared to pay for this land is poverty. They will close taps. But if there is a conviction, ... and not [[wikipedia:sloganeering|sloganeering]] and public opinions, then we must be prepared for everything. It is a war. We must be prepared for Donald Trump and all of them, we are not scared of them. ... There is no white genocide here, it is an absolute rubbish. ... There is black genocide in the USA. They are killing black people in the USA. There is black genocide here in South Africa. Black people are being killed all the time. ... We are not going to be distracted by anyone. Only death will stop us, not Trump, not poverty, not sanctions. ... We know the consequences of what we are asking for. ... So Afriforum is the embassy of the USA. If you want issues to reach USA, then go to Afriforum. Then you shall get a proper response. ... We are not scared of Afriforum.
** At a news conference, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJVkQCpMKI I Don’t Have Time for Nonsense!": Malema Rebukes Trump for Threats Against South Africa (Throwback)], The Africa News Network, 11 February 2025

* How do you say you must expropriate land and give people title deeds? Our people ... won't eat title deed. Here is a paper called title deed, yet you remain poverty stricken, and here is a man with money, who says to me: Give me that paper, I give you the money to eat now. They will take the money. You are setting our people up for failure when you talk title deeds. ... Our people are going to use those title deeds as surety, and they will not be in a position to pay their debt. ... So they are going to give you the land, and come to buy it from you, close to nothing. ... RDP houses are being rented out. The owners of the RDP houses went to squat somewhere.
** At a news conference, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJVkQCpMKI I Don’t Have Time for Nonsense!": Malema Rebukes Trump for Threats Against South Africa (Throwback)], The Africa News Network, 11 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Julius Malema

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[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]

'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022
[[file:Julius Malema, EFF CIC (2019).png|thumb|right|We are [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] and Putin is us, and we will never support [[imperialism]] against president Putin.]]
* Russians have not done anything wrong to anyone. You have a problem, go and talk to NATO. It is the one that provoked Russia and Russia it is well within its right to defend itself. So the Russian foreign minister was at home. ... So, we are happy that they saw it befitting to respect us and to come to us as a way of saying we respect you and we want to give you a some form of an explanation as to what is really happening in our country, and all of that. We can't say the same about this one of Treasury of the USA, who was coming to steal our minerals and our wildlife. I don't know what she was doing in those game farms and all of that, and the Reserve Bank, and she came here to monitor their puppet if it's following the instructions of surrendering the sovereignty of South Africa. So, America can never be welcomed here in South Africa and the African continent because we now when they come here, they are coming to check what more can we steal and finish off this continent. So, she was even going to Mpumalanga to go and run some symposiums or something on just transitions, and how renewables work. You can see that she was preparing to indoctrinate our people to abandon coal so that they can enjoy to built their economies with our coal. ... So, she was not welcomed here.
** Contrasting the state visit by Russian foreign minister [[:en:Sergey Lavrov|Sergey Lavrov]], with that of American treasury secretary [[:en:Janet Yellen|Janet Yellen]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5mTTW82ys The Russian foreign minister is at home in South Africa: Julius Malema], Africa Web TV, 30 January 2023

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that [[wikipedia:Reuben Brigety|Reuben Brigety]], the US Ambassador to South Africa, be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

* Donald Trump is not saying anything we have not heard from white people. ... I still have to meet a white person who support expropriation of land without compensation. So why are you shocked? ... I don't have time for nonsense, I expected this. And more, backlash is going to come. If South Africans are not ready to expropriate the land because they are scared of sanctions, they are scared of backlash, then don't vote for the EFF. Because you vote for us, we are going to expropriate land. And Donald Trump will come for us, and Britain will come for us, and EU will come for us. ...for everything good comes the pain before. If you are not prepared South Africa to take the pain, then forget about the land. ... We know that the first response will be killing. They will kill us for that. There is a group of white rightwingers who are being trained by Jews in Pretoria to be snipers. ... So we know that death is the first price that we are prepared to pay. The second price we are prepared to pay for this land is poverty. They will close taps. But if there is a conviction, ... and not [[wikipedia:sloganeering|sloganeering]] and public opinions, then we must be prepared for everything. It is a war. We must be prepared for Donald Trump and all of them, we are not scared of them. ... There is no white genocide here, it is an absolute rubbish. ... There is black genocide in the USA. They are killing black people in the USA. There is black genocide here in South Africa. Black people are being killed all the time. ... We are not going to be distracted by anyone. Only death will stop us, not Trump, not poverty, not sanctions. ... We know the consequences of what we are asking for. ... So Afriforum is the embassy of the USA. If you want issues to reach USA, then go to Afriforum. Then you shall get a proper response. ... We are not scared of Afriforum.
** At a news conference, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJVkQCpMKI I Don’t Have Time for Nonsense!": Malema Rebukes Trump for Threats Against South Africa (Throwback)], The Africa News Network, 11 February 2025

* How do you say you must expropriate land and give people title deeds? Our people ... won't eat title deed. Here is a paper called title deed, yet you remain poverty stricken, and here is a man with money, who says to me: Give me that paper, I give you the money to eat now. They will take the money. You are setting our people up for failure when you talk title deeds. ... Our people are going to use those title deeds as surety, and they will not be in a position to pay their debt. ... So they are going to give you the land, and come to buy it from you, close to nothing. ... RDP houses are being rented out. The owners of the RDP houses went to squat somewhere.
** At a news conference, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJVkQCpMKI I Don’t Have Time for Nonsense!": Malema Rebukes Trump for Threats Against South Africa (Throwback)], The Africa News Network, 11 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Julius Malema

2025-05-08T10:31:58Z

JMK: Trump, white genocide

[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]

'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022
[[file:Julius Malema, EFF CIC (2019).png|thumb|right|We are [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] and Putin is us, and we will never support [[imperialism]] against president Putin.]]
* Russians have not done anything wrong to anyone. You have a problem, go and talk to NATO. It is the one that provoked Russia and Russia it is well within its right to defend itself. So the Russian foreign minister was at home. ... So, we are happy that they saw it befitting to respect us and to come to us as a way of saying we respect you and we want to give you a some form of an explanation as to what is really happening in our country, and all of that. We can't say the same about this one of Treasury of the USA, who was coming to steal our minerals and our wildlife. I don't know what she was doing in those game farms and all of that, and the Reserve Bank, and she came here to monitor their puppet if it's following the instructions of surrendering the sovereignty of South Africa. So, America can never be welcomed here in South Africa and the African continent because we now when they come here, they are coming to check what more can we steal and finish off this continent. So, she was even going to Mpumalanga to go and run some symposiums or something on just transitions, and how renewables work. You can see that she was preparing to indoctrinate our people to abandon coal so that they can enjoy to built their economies with our coal. ... So, she was not welcomed here.
** Contrasting the state visit by Russian foreign minister [[:en:Sergey Lavrov|Sergey Lavrov]], with that of American treasury secretary [[:en:Janet Yellen|Janet Yellen]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5mTTW82ys The Russian foreign minister is at home in South Africa: Julius Malema], Africa Web TV, 30 January 2023

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that [[wikipedia:Reuben Brigety|Reuben Brigety]], the US Ambassador to South Africa, be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

* Donald Trump is not saying anything we have not heard from white people. ... I still have to meet a white person who support expropriation of land without compensation. So why are you shocked? ... I don't have time for nonsense, I expected this. And more, backlash is going to come. If South Africans are not ready to expropriate that land because they are scared of sanctions, they are scared of backlash, then don't vote for the EFF. Because you vote for us, we are going to expropriate land. And Donald Trump will come for us, and Britain will come for us, and EU will come for us. ...for everything good comes the pain before. If you are not prepared South Africa to take the pain, then forget about the land. ... We know that the first response will be killing. They will kill us for that. There is a group of white rightwingers who are being trained by Jews in Pretoria to be snipers. ... So we know that death is the first price that we are prepared to pay. The second price we are prepared to pay for this land is poverty. They will close taps. But if there is a conviction, ... and not [[wikipedia:sloganeering|sloganeering]] and public opinions, then we must be prepared for everything. It is a war. We must be prepared for Donald Trump and all of them, we are not scared of them. ... There is no white genocide here, it is an absolute rubbish. ... There is black genocide in the USA. They are killing black people in the USA. There is black genocide here in South Africa. Black people are being killed all the time. ... We are not going to be distracted by anyone. Only death will stop us, not Trump, not poverty, not sanctions. ... We know the consequences of what we are asking for. ... So Afriforum is the embassy of the USA. If you want issues to reach USA, then go to Afriforum. Then you shall get a proper response. ... We are not scared of Afriforum.
** At a news conference, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJVkQCpMKI I Don’t Have Time for Nonsense!": Malema Rebukes Trump for Threats Against South Africa (Throwback)], The Africa News Network, 11 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

* Russians have not done anything wrong to anyone. You have a problem, go and talk to NATO. It is the one that provoked Russia and Russia it is well within its right to defend itself. So the Russian foreign minister was at home. ... So, we are happy that they saw it befitting to respect us and to come to us as a way of saying we respect you and we want to give you a some form of an explanation as to what is really happening in our country, and all of that. We can't say the same about this one of Treasury of the USA, who was coming to steal our minerals and our wildlife. I don't know what she was doing in those game farms and all of that, and the Reserve Bank, and she came here to monitor their puppet if it's following the instructions of surrendering the sovereignty of South Africa. So, America can never be welcomed here in South Africa and the African continent because we now when they come here, they are coming to check what more can we steal and finish off this continent. So, she was even going to Mpumalanga to go and run some symposiums or something on just transitions, and how renewables work. You can see that she was preparing to indoctrinate our people to abandon coal so that they can enjoy to built their economies with our coal. ... So, she was not welcomed here.
** Contrasting the state visit by Russian foreign minister [[:en:Sergey Lavrov|Sergey Lavrov]], with that of American treasury secretary [[:en:Janet Yellen|Janet Yellen]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5mTTW82ys The Russian foreign minister is at home in South Africa: Julius Malema], Africa Web TV, 30 January 2023
[[file:Julius Malema, EFF CIC (2019).png|thumb|right|We are [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] and Putin is us, and we will never support [[imperialism]] against president Putin.]]
* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that [[wikipedia:Reuben Brigety|Reuben Brigety]], the US Ambassador to South Africa, be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Julius Malema

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[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]

'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

* Russians have not done anything wrong to anyone. You have a problem, go and talk to NATO. It is the one that provoked Russia and Russia it is well within its right to defend itself. So the Russian foreign minister was at home. ... So, we are happy that they saw it befitting to respect us and to come to us as a way of saying we respect you and we want to give you a some form of an explanation as to what is really happening in our country, and all of that. We can't say the same about this one of Treasury of the USA, who was coming to steal our minerals and our wildlife. I don't know what she was doing in those game farms and all of that, and the Reserve Bank, and she came here to monitor their puppet if it's following the instructions of surrendering the sovereignty of South Africa. So, America can never be welcomed here in South Africa and the African continent because we now when they come here, they are coming to check what more can we steal and finish off this continent. So, she was even going to Mpumalanga to go and run some symposiums or something on just transitions, and how renewables work. You can see that she was preparing to indoctrinate our people to abandon coal so that they can enjoy to built their economies with our coal. ... So, she was not welcomed here.
** Contrasting the state visit by Russian foreign minister [[:en:Sergey Lavrov|Sergey Lavrov]], with that of American treasury secretary [[:en:Janet Yellen|Janet Yellen]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5mTTW82ys The Russian foreign minister is at home in South Africa: Julius Malema], Africa Web TV, 30 January 2023

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that [[wikipedia:Reuben Brigety|Reuben Brigety]], the US Ambassador to South Africa, be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

* Russians have not done anything wrong to anyone. You have a problem, go and talk to NATO. It is the one that provoked Russia and Russia it is well within its right to defend itself. So the Russian foreign minister was at home. ... So, we are happy that they saw it befitting to respect us and to come to us as a way of saying we respect you and we want to give you a some form of an explanation as to what is really happening in our country, and all of that. We can't say the same about this one of Treasury of the USA, who was coming to steal our minerals and our wildlife. I don't know what she was doing in those game farms and all of that, and the Reserve Bank, and she came here to monitor their puppet if it's following the instructions of surrendering the sovereignty of South Africa. So, America can never be welcomed here in South Africa and the African continent because we now when they come here, they are coming to check what more can we steal and finish off this continent. So, she was even going to Mpumalanga to go and run some symposiums or something on just transitions, and how renewables work. You can see that she was preparing to indoctrinate our people to abandon coal so that they can enjoy to built their economies with our coal. ... So, she was not welcomed here.
** Contrasting the state visit by Russian foreign minister [[:en:Sergey Lavrov|Sergey Lavrov]], with that of American treasury secretary [[:en:Janet Yellen|Janet Yellen]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5mTTW82ys The Russian foreign minister is at home in South Africa: Julius Malema], Africa Web TV, 30 January 2023

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that [[:en:Reuben Brigety|Reuben Brigety]], the US Ambassador to South Africa, be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]

'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

* Russians have not done anything wrong to anyone. You have a problem, go and talk to NATO. It is the one that provoked Russia and Russia it is well within its right to defend itself. So the Russian foreign minister was at home. ... So, we are happy that they saw it befitting to respect us and to come to us as a way of saying we respect you and we want to give you a some form of an explanation as to what is really happening in our country, and all of that. We can't say the same about this one of Treasury of the USA, who was coming to steal our minerals and our wildlife. I don't know what she was doing in those game farms and all of that, and the Reserve Bank, and she came here to monitor their puppet if it's following the instructions of surrendering the sovereignty of South Africa. So, America can never be welcomed here in South Africa and the African continent because we now when they come here, they are coming to check what more can we steal and finish off this continent. So, she was even going to Mpumalanga to go and run some symposiums or something on just transitions, and how renewables work. You can see that she was preparing to indoctrinate our people to abandon coal so that they can enjoy to built their economies with our coal. ... So, she was not welcomed here.
** Contrasting the state visit by Russian foreign minister [[:en:Sergey Lavrov|Sergey Lavrov]], with that of American treasury secretary [[:en:Janet Yellen|Janet Yellen]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5mTTW82ys The Russian foreign minister is at home in South Africa: Julius Malema], Africa Web TV, 30 January 2023

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that the US Ambassador to South Africa be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Julius Malema

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[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]

'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

* Russians have not done anything wrong to anyone. You have a problem, go and talk to NATO. It is the one that provoked Russia and Russia it is well within its right to defend itself. So the Russian foreign minister was at home. ... So, we are happy that they saw it befitting to respect us and to come to us as a way of saying we respect you and we want to give you a some form of an explanation as to what is really happening in our country, and all of that. We can't say the same about this one of Treasury of the USA, who was coming to steal our minerals and our wildlife. I don't know what she was doing in those game farms and all of that, and the Reserve Bank, and she came here to monitor their puppet if it's following the instructions of surrendering the sovereignty of South Africa. So, America can never be welcomed here in South Africa and the African continent because we now when they come here, they are coming to check what more can we steal and finish off this continent. So, she was even going to Mpumalanga to go and run some symposiums or something on just transitions, and how renewables work. You can see that she was preparing to indoctrinate our people to abandon coal so that they can enjoy to built their economies with our coal. ... So, she was not welcomed here.
** Contrasting the state visits by Russian foreign minister Lavrov, with that of American treasury secretary Yellen, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5mTTW82ys The Russian foreign minister is at home in South Africa: Julius Malema], Africa Web TV, 30 January 2023

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that the US Ambassador to South Africa be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Julius Malema

2025-05-08T07:02:30Z

JMK: BRICS, Putin

[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]

'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that the US Ambassador to South Africa be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* Comrades, we want to make sure that BRICS is strengthened, and BRICS is an alternative to Europe and America. We are with president Putin, and we want to say to president Putin, it is not us South Africans who refused you from coming into the country, it is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin. We are Putin and Putin is us, and we will never support imperialism against president Putin.
** At a party rally, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcMKp4IdI8 EFF stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin], SABCNews, 29 July 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Julius Malema

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[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]
'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

* That man's credentials were supposed to be withdrawn. There are lots of protocol channels that are established for those types of concerns. He could have utilized those channels to go raise his concerns. But to create such atmosphere for our country, to create such doubt and smear our country in a manner he did, and he still has not come out to apologize. ... If there were guns that were given to Russia, it was a good thing. I would have done the same as a president of the Republic. ... Russia must be given a practical support, because when we needed one they didn't give us a non-alignment position, they didn't give us this neutral nonsense position, they gave us arms.
** At a press briefing following the EFF's central command team meeting, where he recommended that the US Ambassador to South Africa be recalled after he accused South Africa of supplying weapons to Russia, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qMhrBlu6A 'If guns were given to Russia, it was a good thing' - Malema], 15 May 2023

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Julius Malema

2025-05-07T19:48:44Z

JMK: reply to Trump

[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]
'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

* The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty, and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialist[s] who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the president of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us. His misinterpretation of the expropriation act which is a mild and cosmetic intervention is an assessment of a measure which is going to be pursued through the amendment of our constitution as South Africans and there is nothing he can do to undermine our independence. The EFF reiterates its position that we must build state capacity, build a strong agricultural and industrial nation which will not depend on the West, and intensify trade relations with progressive nations such as China, Russia and nations within BRICS who do not use foreign policy as an instrument to impose their will or bully other nations into submission.
** A read statement in reply to Donald Trump's critisism of South African policies in a post on Truth Social on 2 February 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMT3-BraRU SA-US Relations: Malema hits back at Trump], eNCA, 3 February 2025

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Piet Retief

2025-02-23T14:24:46Z

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[[File:Piet Retief.jpg|thumb|Granite statue of Piet Retief at the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria]]
'''[[w:Piet Retief|Pieter Mauritz Retief]]''' (12 November 1780 – 6 February 1838) was a [[w:Boer|Boer]] leader. Settling in 1814 in the frontier region of the [[w:Cape Colony|Cape Colony]], he assumed command of [[Commando|punitive expeditions]] in response to raiding parties from the adjacent [[w:Xhosa people|Xhosa]] territory. He became a spokesperson for the frontier farmers who voiced their discontent, and wrote the [[w:Voortrekkers|Voortrekkers]] declaration at their departure from the colony.

== Quotes ==

'''Declaration by [[w:Piet Retief|Piet Retief]] before leaving the Cape Colony'''
# We despair of saving the Colony from these evils which threaten it by the turbulent and dishonest conduct of vagrants, who are allowed to infest the country in every part; nor do we see any prospect of peace or happiness for our children in a country thus distracted by internal commotions.
# We complain of the severe losses which we have been forced to sustain by the emancipation of our slaves, and the vexatious laws which have been enacted respecting them.
# We complain of the continual system of plunder which we have for years endured from the Kaffirs and other coloured classes, and particularly by the last invasion of the Colony, which have desolated the frontier districts and ruined most of the inhabitants.
# We complain of the unjustifiable odium which has been cast upon us by interested and dishonest persons, under the name of Religion, whose testimony is believed in England to the exclusion of all evidence in our favour; and we can foresee, as the result of this prejudice, nothing but the total ruin of the country.
# We are resolved, wherever we go, that we will uphold the just principles of liberty; but, whilst we will take care that no one is brought by us into a condition of slavery, we will establish such regulations as may suppress crime and preserve proper regulations between master and servant.
# We solemnly declare that we leave this colony with a desire to lead a more quiet life than we have heretofore done. We will not molest any people, nor deprive them of the smallest property; but if attacked, we shall consider ourselves fully justified in defending our persons and effects, to the utmost of our ability, against every enemy.
# We make known that when we shall have framed a code of laws for our guidance, copies shall be forwarded to this colony for general information; but we take the opportunity of stating that it is our firm resolve to make provision for the summary punishment, even with death, of all traitors, without exception, who may be found amongst us.
# We purpose, in the course of our journey and on arrival at the country in which we shall permanently reside, to make known to the native tribes our intentions and our desire to live in peace and friendly intercourse with them.
# We quit this colony under the full assurance that the English Government has nothing more to require of us, and will allow us to govern ourselves without its interference in future.
# We are now leaving the fruitful land of our birth, in which we have suffered enormous losses and continual vexation, and are about to enter a wild and dangerous territory; but we go with a firm reliance on the all-seeing, just, and merciful God, whom we shall always fear and humbly endeavour to obey.
::By authority of the farmers who have quitted the Colony, P. RETIEF, [[w:Grahamstown|Grahamstown]] 22nd January 1837.
* As quoted in the ''Graham's Town Journal'' of February 2, 1837. See also: ''History of the Emigrant Boers in South Africa'', 2nd ed, G.M. Theal, London 1888.

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Paul Kruger

2024-09-18T18:15:19Z

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'''[[w:Paul Kruger|Paul Kruger]]''' (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century [[South Africa]], and President of the [[w:South African Republic|South African Republic]] (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.

==Quotes==
* ''Indien de Lieve Heer ons helpen en zegenen wilde, en wij ons land terug zouden krygen, dat den het volk elk jaar daar zouden komen feestvieren, juist by dezelfde steenhoop, en den Heer onze geloften komen betalen. En deze steenhoop is de eeuwige getuie daarvan.''
* If the Dear Lord would decide to help and bless us, and we would succeed in recovering our country, that the citizens would annually come to celebrate at this exact cairn, honouring our vow to the Lord. And this cairn serves as the eternal witness to it.
**On 13 December 1880, when some 6 000 to 8 000 armed SAR citizens were adjured by Kruger to add stones to a cairn, marking their resolution to restore the Transvaal's independence. The Paardekraal Monument of 1890 still marks the spot, though the cairn was removed by British forces in 1901.

* ''Wy syn hier gekomen om feest te vieren en gy weet het. Ons en u doel is niets anders dan om meer en meer te doen verstaan den wil des Heeren en om ons te wyzen op zyne leiding, opdat de ouders aan hunne kinderen en kindskinderen tot in het verste nageslacht kunnen verhalen, wat God aan ons gedaan heeft.''
* We have arrived here to celebrate as you are well aware. Our aim, as your aim, is no less than to acquire a deeper understanding of the will of the Lord, and to apprise ourselves of his guidance, in order that the parents may convey to their children and grandchildren, and thence to our most distant descendants, what God has bestowed on us.
** At Paardekraal, current [[w:Krugersdorp|Krugersdorp]], addressing a crowd of SAR citizens who gathered to celebrate the Paardekraal resolution of a year before, besides the Day of the Vow (13 to 16 December 1881)

* ... I will bring a curse upon myself if our independence is violated by me, since God has guided us so visibly that the blindest heathen and most unbelieving creature had to admit that it was God's hand that gave us our independence.
** In 1893, as quoted by Du Plessis, J.S., President Kruger aan die woord: Verkiesingsmanifeste, intreeredes en toesprake van President S.J.P. Kruger, Sacum, Bloemfontein. See: [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269]

* Through the ''World'' I thank the people of the United States most sincerely for their sympathy. Last Monday the Republic gave Great Britain fourty-eight hours' notice within which to give the Republic an assurance that the present dispute would be settled by arbitration or other peaceful means, and that the troops would be removed from the borders. This expires at five to-day. The British Agent has been recalled. War is certain. The Republics are determined, if they must belong to Great Britain, that a price will have to be paid which will stagger humanity. They have, however, full faith. The sun of liberty will arise in South Africa as it arose in North America.
** Telegram to the ''New York World'' on 11 October 1899 at the start of the [[Second Boer War]], as quoted by Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''

* … they were willing to their ability, I testify, yes, beyond their ability.
** His appraisal of the Boer military leaders at the end of the [[Second Boer War]], May/June 1902, as quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 184. Van Schaik, Pretoria. See: [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269]

* ''Zoekt in het verledene al het goede en schoone, dat daarin te ontdekken valt. Vormt daarnaar uw ideaal en beproeft voor de toekomst dat ideaal te verwezenlijken.''
* Seek in the past all that is good and beautiful that can be discovered there. Form your ideal accordingly and try to realize that ideal for the future.
** As quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 239. Van Schaik, Pretoria.
* Or: Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.
** From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land (Donker, 1981), p. 164

* ''…van de minste geleerden hunner.''
* …of the least learned among them.
** Referring to himself, c. 1890, with respect to his attendance of political meetings. He only received three months of formal school training. As quoted by Piet J. Strauss in [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269 Paul Kruger – ’n ‘Dopper’ van sy tyd?], In die Skriflig | In Luce Verbi, 1 June 2020

==Quotes about Kruger==
* I express to you my sincere congratulations that you and your people, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, have succeeded, by your own energetic action against the armed bands which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, in restoring peace and in maintaining the independence of the country against attack from without.
** The [[w:Kruger telegram|Kruger telegram]] sent by [[w:Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II]] on 3 January 1896, immediately after the [[w:Jameson Raid|Jameson Raid]] was thwarted, as quoted by J van der Poel in ''The Jameson Raid'', p. 135
* Kruger was the dour, stolid, canny, provincial trader. The only time that his interest ever left the confines of the Transvaal was when he sought an alliance with William Hohenzollern, and that person, I might add, failed him at the critical moment.
** [[w:Isaac Frederick Marcosson|Isaac Frederick Marcosson]] in [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25569/25569-h/25569-h.htm An African Adventure], Chapter I – Smuts, p. 39, ''The Plimpton Press'' (1921)
* [He epitomized the Boer character] both in its brighter and darker aspects and was […] the greatest man – both morally and intellectually – which the Boer race has so far produced.
** [[w:Jan Smuts|Jan Smuts]] on 14 Julie 1904, as quoted in Bergh, J.S., 2017, Paul Kruger toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881-1900, Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria.

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Paul Kruger

2024-09-18T18:12:00Z

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[[File:Kruger old age.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Kruger]]

'''[[w:Paul Kruger|Paul Kruger]]''' (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century [[South Africa]], and President of the [[w:South African Republic|South African Republic]] (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.

==Quotes==
* ''Indien de Lieve Heer ons helpen en zegenen wilde, en wij ons land terug zouden krygen, dat den het volk elk jaar daar zouden komen feestvieren, juist by dezelfde steenhoop, en den Heer onze geloften komen betalen. En deze steenhoop is de eeuwige getuie daarvan.''
* If the Dear Lord would decide to help and bless us, and we would succeed in recovering our country, that the citizens would annually come to celebrate at this exact cairn, honouring our vow to the Lord. And this cairn serves as the eternal witness to it.
**On 13 December 1880, when some 6 000 to 8 000 armed SAR citizens were adjured by Kruger to add stones to a cairn, marking their resolution to restore the Transvaal's independence. The Paardekraal Monument of 1890 still marks the spot, though the cairn was removed by British forces in 1901.

* ''Wy syn hier gekomen om feest te vieren en gy weet het. Ons en u doel is niets anders dan om meer en meer te doen verstaan den wil des Heeren en om ons te wyzen op zyne leiding, opdat de ouders aan hunne kinderen en kindskinderen tot in het verste nageslacht kunnen verhalen, wat God aan ons gedaan heeft.''
* We have arrived here to celebrate as you are well aware. Our aim, as your aim, is no less than to acquire a deeper understanding of the will of the Lord, and to apprise ourselves of his guidance, in order that the parents may convey to their children and grandchildren, and thence to our most distant descendants, what God has bestowed on us.
** At Paardekraal, current [[w:Krugersdorp|Krugersdorp]], addressing a crowd of SAR citizens who gathered to celebrate the Paardekraal resolution of a year before, besides the Day of the Vow (13 to 16 December 1881)

* ... I will bring a curse upon myself if our independence is violated by me, since God has guided us so visibly that the blindest heathen and most unbelieving creature had to admit that it was God's hand that gave us our independence.
** In 1893, as quoted by Du Plessis, J.S., President Kruger aan die woord: Verkiesingsmanifeste, intreeredes en toesprake van President S.J.P. Kruger, Sacum, Bloemfontein. See: [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269]

* Through the ''World'' I thank the people of the United States most sincerely for their sympathy. Last Monday the Republic gave Great Britain fourty-eight hours' notice within which to give the Republic an assurance that the present dispute would be settled by arbitration or other peaceful means, and that the troops would be removed from the borders. This expires at five to-day. The British Agent has been recalled. War is certain. The Republics are determined, if they must belong to Great Britain, that a price will have to be paid which will stagger humanity. They have, however, full faith. The sun of liberty will arise in South Africa as it arose in North America.
** Telegram to the ''New York World'' on 11 October 1899 at the start of the [[Second Boer War]], as quoted by Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''

* … they were willing to their ability, I testify, yes, beyond their ability.
** His appraisal of the Boer military leaders at the end of the [[Second Boer War]], May/June 1902, as quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 184. Van Schaik, Pretoria. See: [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269]

* ''Zoekt in het verledene al het goede en schoone, dat daarin te ontdekken valt. Vormt daarnaar uw ideaal en beproeft voor de toekomst dat ideaal te verwezenlijken.''
* Seek in the past all that is good and beautiful that can be discovered there. Form your ideal accordingly and try to realize that ideal for the future.
** As quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 239. Van Schaik, Pretoria.
* Or: Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.
** From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land (Donker, 1981), p. 164

* ''…van de minste geleerden hunner.''
* …of the least learned among them.
** Referring to himself, c. 1890, with respect to his attendance of political meetings. He only received three months of formal school training. As quoted by Piet J. Strauss in [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269 Paul Kruger – ’n ‘Dopper’ van sy tyd?], In die Skriflig | In Luce Verbi, 1 June 2020

==Quotes about Kruger==
* I express to you my sincere congratulations that you and your people, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, have succeeded, by your own energetic action against the armed bands which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, in restoring peace and in maintaining the independence of the country against attack from without.
** The [[w:Kruger telegram|Kruger telegram]] sent by [[w:Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II]] on 3 January 1896, immediately after the [[w:Jameson Raid|Jameson Raid]] was thwarted, as quoted by J van der Poel in ''The Jameson Raid'', p. 135
* Kruger was the dour, stolid, canny, provincial trader. The only time that his interest ever left the confines of the Transvaal was when he sought an alliance with William Hohenzollern, and that person, I might add, failed him at the critical moment.
** [[w:Isaac Frederick Marcosson|Isaac Frederick Marcosson]] in [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25569/25569-h/25569-h.htm An African Adventure], Chapter I – Smuts, p. 39, ''The Plimpton Press'' (1921)
* ... [characterized the Boer character] both in its brighter and darker aspects and was […] the greatest man – both morally and intellectually – which the Boer race has so far produced.
** [[w:Jan Smuts|Jan Smuts]] on 14 Julie 1904, as quoted in Bergh, J.S., 2017, Paul Kruger toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881-1900, Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria.

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'''[[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]''' is a free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system. Individual contributors, also called editors, are known as Wikipedians. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

== Quotes ==

===2000s===
====2000====
* '''What if we could get everyone in the world together to record what they know in one place?'''
** [[Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], when recruiting [[Larry Sanger]] in January 2000, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c9mRKFy5fU The early history of Wikipedia (part 1)] (1:49), Larry Sanger (7 May 2010)
[[File:Wikipedia app iOS.jpg|thumb|A view of the [[wikipedia:Wikipedia App|Wikipedia App]], the official [[wikipedia:Application software|app]] of Wikipedia. Any user can install Wikipedia, and you can install, before this, the Wikipedia App to download Wikipedia free and for this, a user need to go to
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|https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios
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or to https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-win8-wikipedia]]

====2001====
* At present I am overworked and the [Nupedia] project is suffering to some extent as a result... I just don't have the time to find lead reviewers for the articles listed [in "General and Other"]. The problem is that it is VERY difficult to find *specialists* on each of those topics.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20030503011149/http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000671.html Thread: General and Other editor and editorial changes?], ''Nupedia-l mailing list'' (5 January 2001)

* It's an idea to add a little feature to Nupedia. ..."Wiki," pronounced \wee'-kee\, derives from a Polynesian word, "wikiwiki," but what it means is a VERY open, VERY publicly-editable series of web pages. ... I can start a page ... Anyone else (yes, absolutely anyone else) can come along and make absolutely any changes to it that he wants to. ... On the page I create, I can link to any other pages, and of course anyone can link to mine. The project is billed and pursued as a public resource. There are a few announced suggestions or rules. ... As to Nupedia's use of a wiki, this is the ULTIMATE "open" and simple format for developing content. We have occasionally bandied about ideas for simpler, more open projects to either replace or supplement Nupedia. ... [It] can be a place where additional changes and commentary can be gleaned... The content can be licensed under an open content license. On the front page of the Nupedia wiki we'd make it ABSOLUTELY clear that this is experimental...
** [[Larry Sanger]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20030414014355/http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000676.html Thread: Let's make a wiki], ''Nupedia-l mailing list'' (10 January 2001)

* We wouldn't call it "the Nupedia wiki" though that's what it would be. ... On the "wikipedia" we would say that this is a supplementary project to Nupedia which operates entirely independently.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20030414021138/http:/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000680.html Thread: Re: [Advisory-l] The wiki...], ''Nupedia-l mailing list'' (11 January 2001)

* It was a cold Friday evening in January 2001. I was on duty in one of my uni's computer labs...
: At first I was a bit intimidated about the entries and discussions, which I saw there. The main contributors at the time were Jimbo, Larry and w:Josh Grosse. The 'Pedia had ca. 700 (!) entries, and was still using the weird Camel Case format, which made links appear in the manner of w:PortugaL or w:PolanD. After a bit of lurking around I quickly figured out what the purpose of the project was, and came to the simple conclusion "Me likes thees!".
: What followed were normal symptoms of my gradual turning into a w:Wikipediholic. I spent a large portion of my free time starting entries, editing, and cross-linking. I witnessed the project grow gradually and in waves as it became more popular (slashdotting, etc.). During the Summer, doing the hard job of an analyst at a medium-sized Polish financial institution kept me away for a while. I was back in mid-September. And I intend to stay for as long as I can, or until my cable modem dies on me.
** +wojpob [[Meta:How I became a Wikipedian#In a galaxy far, far away… |How I became a Wikipedian]] (8 December 2001)

* Hello, World!
** [[Jimmy Wales]], first edit on the [[w:UseModWiki|UseModWiki]] home page on 15 January 2001, as cited by Biz Carson, [http://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedias-first-words-hello-world-2016-3 The first words on Wikipedia were a nerdy programmer in-joke] (13 March 2016), and confirmed by Wales in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJimbo_Wales&diff=392514555&oldid=392508515 User talk:Jimbo Wales] (24 October 2001)

* ...why 2 sites, or 2 encyclopedias? My impression of them is Wikipedia is the "everyman's" encyclopedia and Nupedia is for the university elite. I looked at being a writer [for Nupedia] but I really felt I wouldn't be welcome since I'm just a college graduate of a two year program for corporate communications.
** Laura T. in [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000665.html Thread: LinkBacks?], ''Wikipedia-l mailing list'' (30 October 2001)

* After a year or so of working on Nupedia, Larry had the idea to use Wiki software for a separate project specifically for people like you (and me!) who are intimidated and bored (sorry, Nupedia!) with the tedium of the process. As it turns out, Wikipedia is dramatically more successful on some measures, ... The main thing about Wikipedia is that it is fun and addictive.
** [[Jimmy Wales]] in [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000671.html Thread: LinkBacks?], ''Wikipedia-l mailing list'' (30 October 2001)

* Wikis don't work if people aren't bold. You've got to get out there and make those changes, correct that grammar, add those facts, make that language precise, etc., etc. It's OK. It's what everyone expects. So you should never ask, "Why aren't these pages copyedited?" Amazingly, it all works out. It does require some amount of politeness, but it works. You'll see.
** [[Larry Sanger]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Be_bold&oldid=238127 Wikipedia:Be bold] (30 October, 2001)

====2002====
*Larry Sanger resigned on March 1st, 2002. He won't even stay as a volunteer. The project now no longer has a leader (or, put another way, everyone is a leader now).
**''AnonymousDonor'' on Meatball Wiki in March 2002, as quoted in [http://larrysanger.org/roleinwp.html "My role in Wikipedia (links)"] (c. 2009)
*Now that Larry Sanger is gone, Wikipedia's owners will have to watch whether the project manages the transition to effective self-regulation and step in if necessary.
**[[:w:Erik Möller|Erik Möller]] of the WikiMedia Board in [[:w:Kuro5hin|Kuro5hin]] in March 2002, as quoted in [http://larrysanger.org/roleinwp.html "My role in Wikipedia (links)"] (c. 2009)
* The bar to contribution is very low, and if there is any elite in charge, then with all due respect [...], our elite would seem rather less than impressive compared to the leading members of the intelligentsia that contribute to the likes of Britannica. ... The free encyclopedia movement [...] doesn't seem to be travelling in the direction of being led by world-class thinkers, scholars, and scientists,... Basically, Wikipedia is the only game left in town as far as the free encyclopedia movement is concerned.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-September/004531.html "Why the free encyclopedia movement needs to be more like the free software movement"], 1 September 2002

====2003====
* The Wikipedia, perhaps one of the greatest testaments to the generosity on the web, has just hit a milestone of 100,000 articles, a week after its second birthday. ... What makes the Wikipedia so compelling – and this article so hard to finish – is the way everything is so massively linked. You read one entry, and before you know it, you're reading up on Anne Boleyn or Italian greyhounds. But more than that, anyone can add to or edit an entry, or even create another one.
** [[w:Ben Hammersley|Ben Hammersley]], [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/jan/30/onlinesupplement1 Common knowledge], ''The Guardian'' (30 January 2003)

* The current versions of these [Wikipedia] articles aren't necessarily the best way to handle it; I think they would do better to discuss *and debunk* racist notions as much as possible, putting them in the proper context so when some kid hears about "racialism" or "reverse racism" and then looks it up on Wikipedia they'll see a rational, neutral explanation of what makes some people think and speak that way – so they'll _understand_ why to discount those ideas. ... There are lessons to be learned from the evil that men do.
** [[w:Brion Vibber|Brion Vibber]], in [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-January/008799.html Thread: Jimbo ? Others advices ?], ''Wikipedia-l mailing list'' (31 January 2003)

* Even racists have the right to freedom of expression. But, not on wikipedia. ... The policies of wikipedia, even the [[wikipedia:French Wikipedia|French Wikipedia]], aren't constrained by French law. Yahoo caved in to French censorship efforts because they are a large company with many business interests in France. We do not have that problem. ... Anyhow, no article in Wikipedia should ever directly contradict or directly support any controversial statement of moral principle such as the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. That's not NPOV, and it's not our mission. ... You are right not to tolerate this kind of sentence. ... But, not becau[s]e of French law! Because of NPOV.
** [[Jimmy Wales]] in [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-January/008822.html Thread: Jimbo ? Others advices ?] and [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-January/008823.html Thread: Racialisme], ''Wikipedia-l mailing list'' (31 January 2003)

* This may sound like a recipe for disaster, but the results are impressive. While many of the site's 130,000-plus articles are definitely works in progress, many are rich, concise, and polished. ... Surprisingly, our time spent on Wikipedia turned up no junk entries and no defacements. ... A few of the articles seemed a bit dated, and we came across many red links or blue links that led to single-sentence placeholders. But for the most part, the items were useful and thoughtful.
** Sean Carroll, [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2266624,00.asp Site of the Week: Wikipedia], ''[[w:PC Magazine|PC Magazine]]'' (6 June 2003)

====2004====
*'''[[Imagine]] a [[world]] in which every single person on the [[planet]] is given [[free]] access to the sum of [[all]] [[human]] [[knowledge]]. That's what we're [[doing]].'''
** [[Jimmy Wales]], as quoted in [http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230 "Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds,"] by Robin "Roblimo" Miller, ''Slashdot'' (28 July 2004)

*However closely a Wikipedia article may at some point in its life attain to reliability, it is forever open to the uninformed or semiliterate meddler.
**Critique given by former [[w:Encyclopædia Britannica|Encyclopædia Britannica]] editor [[w:Robert McHenry|Robert McHenry]] in a frequently cited 2004 piece, ''The Faith-Based Encyclopedia''

*The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.
**Critique given by former [[w:Encyclopædia Britannica|Encyclopædia Britannica]] editor [[w:Robert McHenry|Robert McHenry]] in a frequently cited 2004 piece [https://web.archive.org/web/20101204040824/http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2004/11/the-faith-based-encyclopedia.html "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia"]

*"encyclopedia ... that anyone can edit"
** [[User:Lowellian]], from [[:wikipedia:special:diff/7558898/7663390|Main Page edit]] (16 November 2004)

====2005====
*You're clearly not here to write an encyclopedia.
** [[User:Jfdwolff]], from [[:wikipedia:special:diff/28452358/28461739|conversation with disruptive user]], led to rule [[:wikipedia:Wikipedia:NOTHERE]] (15 November 2005)

====2006====
[[File:Stephen Colbert 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|If I want to say he didn't that's my right, and now, thanks to Wikipedia – it's also a [[fact]]. ~ [[Stephen Colbert]] on the ownership of slaves by [[George Washington]] ]]
* I take a [[wikt:glass-half-full|half-full-glass]] view, based on a different understanding of what [Wikipedia's competition is]: not the traditional professionally produced encyclopedias, but the legions of sites that, springing up all over the Web, purport to contain answers, unverified and often unverifiable, to every topic on earth. Against that standard, Wikipedia is a resounding success.
** [[w:Bertrand Meyer|Bertrand Meyer]] in [http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/wikipedia/wikipedia.pdf Defense and Illustration of Wikipedia], ''ETH Zurich / Eiffel Software'' (6-7 January 2006)

*For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War – and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge – get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.
**[[w:Lore Sjöberg|Lore Sjöberg]], [https://archive.is/20120524104749/www.wired.com/software/webservices/commentary/alttext/2006/04/70670 "The Wikipedia FAQK"], ''[[w:Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' (19 April 2006)

*Wikipedia's promise is nothing less than the liberation of human knowledge – both by incorporating all of it through the collaborative process, and by freely sharing it with everybody who has access to the internet. This is a radically popular idea.
**''The Economist'' (20 April 2006)

*Shoppin' online for deals on some writable media. I edit Wikipedia.
**[["Weird Al" Yankovic]], "[[w:White & Nerdy|White & Nerdy]]", ''[[w:Straight Outta Lynwood|Straight Outta Lynwood]]'' (2006)

*When I visited the offices [in St. Petersburg, Florida] in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge.
**Stacy Schiff, [https://archive.is/20121205043213/www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact "Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?"], ''The New Yorker'' (31 July 2006)

*If I want to say he didn't that's my right, and now, thanks to Wikipedia – it's also a fact.
**[[Stephen Colbert]] on the ownership of slaves by [[George Washington]], on ''The Colbert Report'' (31 July 2006)

*In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an [[expert]] in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
**[[Stephen Colbert]], [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/colbert.html "Be an Expert on Anything"], ''Wired Magazine'', 14:08 (14 August 2006)

* Wikipedia's openness isn't a mistake; it's the source of its success. A dedicated community solves problems that official leaders wouldn't even know were there. Meanwhile, their volunteerism largely eliminates infighting about who gets to be what. ... Wikipedia's biggest problems have come when it's strayed from this path, when it's given some people official titles and specified tasks. Whenever that happens, real work slows down and squabbling speeds up. But it's an easy mistake to make, so it gets made again and again.
** [[w:Aaron Swartz|Aaron Swartz]] in [http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whorunswikipedia Wikimedia 2006 Elections, Part 3: Who Runs Wikipedia?], ''Raw Thought'' (7 September 2006)

====2007====
[[File:JimmyWalesJI5.jpg|thumb|[[Friedrich Hayek|Hayek]]'s work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project.  ...  one can't [[understand]] my [[ideas]] about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] ]]
[[File:Anarchy-symbol.svg|thumb|But how does such a [[w:polycentrism|polycentric]] – even [[anarchic]] – system, composed of editors acting independently and for their own reasons, result in such an utterly useful resource?  The answer goes back to the [[Friedrich Hayek|Hayekian]] [[inspiration]] for the project.  Because [[editors]] receive both [[psychological]] satisfaction and material usefulness from their contributions, the project has grown to include safeguards that help guarantee that the development of the project will move in a positive direction – towards broad, accurate articles that depend on reliable, verifiable sources. ~ Dick Clark]]
*'''Hofstadter''': The entry is filled with inaccuracies, and it kind of depresses me. '''Solomon:''' So fix it. '''Hofstadter:''' The next day someone will fix it back.
**On "[[Douglas Hofstadter]]" article; Deborah Solomon, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01wwlnQ4.t.html "The Mind Reader,"] ''New York Times'' (1 April 2007)

*Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.
**Michael Scott (played by [[w:Steve Carell|Steve Carell]]), ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]'', ''The Negotiation'' 3.18 (5 April 2007)

*As the popular joke goes, "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work."
**Miikka Ryokas ([[w:User:Kizor|User:Kizor]]), quoted by [[Noam Cohen]], [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/technology/23link.html?ex=1178510400&en=c0eb1b23e5c579f7&ei=5070 "The Latest on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia",] ''The New York Times'' (23 April 2007); the earliest known variant is from the user page of [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Gareth_Owen&diff=35978744 User:Gareth Owen (20 January 2006)]: "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.")

*[[Friedrich Hayek|Hayek]]'s work on [[price theory]] is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project.  ...  [O]ne can't [[understand]] my [[ideas]] about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.
**[[Jimmy Wales]], cited by Katherine Mangu-Ward, "[http://reason.com/archives/2007/05/30/wikipedia-and-beyond Wikipedia and Beyond: Jimmy Wales' sprawling vision]," ''[[w:Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'' (June 2007); also cited by Morton Winston and Ralph Edelbach, ''Society, Ethics, and Technology'' 4th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2012), p. 200

* You just can't put something with commercial motive into Wikipedia. Admitting it is hardly better; it is still a crime. The Wikipedians and bloggers will attack hard and they will deserve what they get.
** On an attempt to promote a marketing slogan by creating a Wikipedia article for it
** [[w:Jeff Jarvis|Jeff Jarvis]] in [http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/23/buying-their-voices/ "Buying their voices"] in ''BuzzMachine'' (23 June 2007) 

*You set up this fantastic site, with people sending information all around the world, and you don't make any money of it! It's practically an un-American activity!
**[[w:Clive Anderson|Clive Anderson]], ''The Wikipedia Story'', [[w:BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]] (24 July 2007)

*There are a lot of bad things said about Wikipedia, the ninth most-visited destination on the internet.  An encyclopedia that anyone can edit, critics argue, is one that is vulnerable to endless mistakes.  Such criticisms have been raised by skeptics since Wikipedia's creation in 2001.  ...  While that ultimate goal imagined by [[Jimmy Wales|Wales]] for Wikipedia has not yet come to fruition, there is no questioning the breadth and usefulness of Wikipedia.  Those who refused to believe that a user-generated encyclopedia could compete with the monolithic, traditional encyclopedia written by experts and organized by professional editors, were no doubt shocked when ''Nature'' magazine published a 2006 article comparing Wikipedia to the well-known ''Encyclopedia Britannica''.  '''The article concluded that Wikipedia articles were comparable in accuracy and thoroughness to those of the older, paper encyclopedia.'''
** Dick Clark, in "[https://mises.org/library/wikipedia-what-it-good Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?]," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*The man credited with founding Wikipedia, [[Jimmy Wales]]...was a finance major at [[w:Auburn University|Auburn University]] when the [[w:Mises Institute|Mises Institute]]'s [[w:Mark Thornton|Mark Thornton]] suggested he read "[[The Use of Knowledge in Society]]," a now-famous essay written by [[Austrian School|Austro]]-[[libertarian]] [[economist]] and [[w:Nobel Prize|Nobel]] laureate [[Friedrich von Hayek]].  The essay argues that [[prices]] in the [[market]] represent a [[spontaneous order]] that results from the interaction of [[individuals]] with diverse [[wants]], allowing them to [[cooperate]] to achieve complex [[goals]].  According to a June 2007 ''[[w:Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'' magazine interview, this insight of Hayek's is what led Wales to found Wikipedia.  The rather lofty vision that inspired Wales?  "[[Imagine]] a [[world]] in which every single [[person]] on [[Earth|the planet]] is given free access to the sum of all [[human]] [[knowledge]].  That's what we're doing."
** Dick Clark, in "Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*But how does such a [[w:polycentrism|polycentric]] – even [[anarchism|anarchic]] – system, composed of editors acting independently and for their own reasons, result in such an utterly useful resource?  The answer goes back to the [[Friedrich Hayek|Hayekian]] [[inspiration]] for the project.  Because [[editors]] receive both [[psychological]] satisfaction and material usefulness from their contributions, the project has grown to include safeguards that help guarantee that the development of the project will move in a positive direction – towards broad, accurate articles that depend on reliable, verifiable sources.
** Dick Clark, in "Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*One could very aptly describe the Wikipedia system for directing the development of the project as being a [[common law]] system of sorts.  The encyclopedia has basic policies – the [[constitutional]] [[law]] of Wikipedia – which require that articles be written from a [[neutral]] point of view, make use of verifiable sources, and include no original research.  ...  Whenever a content dispute does arise between editors on the "talk" pages that accompany each article, there are a host of [[w:dispute resolution|dispute resolution]] options available.
** Dick Clark, in "Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*Wikipedia's reflection of market dynamics is most easily observed in what many people view as the project's weakest areas: obscure articles that draw little traffic.  In articles about third-rate garage bands and other topics of limited interest, one will often find factual and typographical errors at a much higher rate than in high-traffic articles such as those on "[[w:England|England]]" or "[[w:Barry Bonds|Barry Bonds]]."  The much higher demand for [[information]] about the latter topics means that many more eyes will be combing those much-demanded articles for mistakes.  Since Wikipedia is open to correction by anyone, it stands to reason that the articles attracting more potential editors will be of a higher quality.  Rather than a [[failure]], this is a great demonstration of Wikipedia's [[efficient]] allocation of resources.
** Dick Clark, in "Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*The Tsunami article is well researched and extensive, only at two places a little inaccurate. The scientific Wikipedia articles are, according to my judgement, almost always good.
**[[:de:Frank Schätzing|Frank Schätzing]], SF author, quoted in [http://www.stern.de/digital/online/2-wikipedia-wissen-fuer-alle-606048.html ''Stern'' (December 2007)]

*The article [Martin Luther] is ample and solidly written. Someone was really occupied with Luther and read some church histories. I give extra points for quoting from sources and the pictures.
**[[:de:Margot Käßmann|Margot Käßmann]], Lutheran bishop, quoted in [http://www.stern.de/digital/online/2-wikipedia-wissen-fuer-alle-606048.html ''Stern'' (December 2007)]

*There is nothing to add to that entry [Marinade]. In my view it contains all important information. I use Wikipedia often for food chemistry. Sometimes you find something you didn't even think about.
**[[w:de:Sarah Wiener|Sarah Wiener]], TV cook, quoted in [http://www.stern.de/digital/online/2-wikipedia-wissen-fuer-alle-606048.html ''Stern'' (December 2007)]

====2008====
*I think there's more information about culture in Wikipedia than anywhere else in the world, ever.
**[[w:Tyler Cowen|Tyler Cowen]], "Why everything has changed: the recent revolution in cultural economics" in ''Journal of Cultural Economics'' (2008), 32, p. 266, DOI 10.1007/s10824-008-9074-y

* Wikipedia is, at least to some extent, a ''revenge site''. People (like [Don] Murphy) who have a knack for angering and upsetting others are primary targets for that sort of treatment. This is not rocket science, folks. ... As the level of perceived “obnoxiousness” required to make someone a [Wikipedia] target continues to drop, the question becomes, ''how far will it drop?''
** User Somey (24 March 2008), in response to [http://archive.li/EddMg#selection-1459.16-1458.1 Don Murphy - another Living Person who doesn't want a Wikipedia biography] by user blissyu2, ''[[w:Wikipedia Review|Wikipedia Review]]'' (7 September 2007)

* Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in anime.
** [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], [http://www.startribune.com/the-speculator/18174439/ The Speculator], in the Minnesota Star-Tribune (28 April 2008)

*Wikipedia's version of reality has already become a monopoly. And all the prejudices and ignorance of its creators are imposed too.
**[[w:Martin Cohen (philosopher)|Martin Cohen]], [https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/encyclopaedia-idiotica/403327.article Encyclopaedia Idiotica], ''Times Higher Education'' (28 August 2008)

*Beware corporate executives posing as social visionaries. The hype may be about the fulfillment of human potential, but the reality is the exploitation of digital sharecropping.
**Seth Finkelstein, "[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/25/wikipedia.internet Wikipedia isn't about human potential, whatever Wales says]", ''The Guardian'' (25 September 2008)

*This term "[[democratic]]" gets tossed around a lot, usually in a positive, "power to the people rather than some arbitrary ruler" sense.  By that meaning, [[Wikipedia]] is indeed democratic.  Yet, unlike a state democracy, 51% at the polls will not necessarily trump a Wikipedia adversary.  So in the sense that the word "democracy" comes loaded with a "one man, one vote" [[ideology]], Wikipedia is not democratic at all.  And it is a good thing that Wikipedia isn't a democracy.
** Dick Clark, "[https://mises.org/library/free-encyclopedia-democratic-encyclopedia Is the Free Encyclopedia a Democratic Encyclopedia?]," ''Mises Daily'' (2 October 2008)

====2009====
[[File:Main page experiment - The Anome.png|thumb|It's said that aeronautical theory says bumblebees ought not to be able to fly. Likewise, the idea that a useful, serious reference work could emerge from the contributions of thousands of "ordinary" internet users, many without scholarly qualifications, would until comparatively recently have been dismissed as absurd. ~ [[w:John Naughton|John Naughton]] ]]

* The project's advocates imagine that the problem, if they recognise one at all, lies in the variable quality of Wikipedia's individual entries. The solution is obvious: a process in which editors work on the less successful entries and remove the obviously unmerited ones. In reality, the problem is much more fundamental to Wikipedia than that much of its content is a pile of dross. Whereas science and learning pursue truth, Wikipedia prizes consensus. Wikipedia has no means of arbitrating between different claims, other than how many people side with one position rather than another. That ethos is fatal to the advancement of learning. Ideas are refined by being tested; scientific method presupposes scrutiny, experiment and conflict.
** [[Oliver Kamm]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090405022017/http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/46900,opinion,knowledge-by-consensus-wikipedia-jimmy-wales "Wikipedia is junk"] ''The First Post: The Week'' (April 1, 2009)
** The original title of the article was "Wikipedia is junk", but in the archived save it has become deformed to simply "Wikipedia".

*It's said that aeronautical theory says bumblebees ought not to be able to fly. Likewise, the idea that a useful, serious reference work could emerge from the contributions of thousands of "ordinary" internet users, many without scholarly qualifications, would until comparatively recently have been dismissed as absurd.
**[[w:John Naughton|John Naughton]], [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/apr/05/digital-media-referenceandlanguages "Face facts: where Britannica ruled, Wikipedia has conquered"], ''The Guardian'' (5 April 2009)

*Even the founders of Wikipedia had no clue when they started the project of what it would accomplish. They dug a hole to find water, and struck oil instead.
**[[w:User:Erik Zachte|Erik Zachte]] (Wikimedia Foundation data analyst), [http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/numbers-and-strategy/ "Numbers and Strategy"] {{dead link}} (24 July 2009)

*a lot of articles will be locked down. The history of Wikipedia has been one of increasing barriers to changing articles
** [[Simon Pulsifer]] '''[https://www.thestar.com/news/2009/11/23/thousands_of_editors_leaving_wikipedia.html Thousands of editors leaving Wikipedia]''' (Nov. 23, 2009)

* The early days were a gold rush,They attracted lots and lots of people, because a new person could write about anything.
** [[Sue Gardner]] '''[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125893981183759969 Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages]''' (Nov. 27, 2009 12:01 am ET)

*We now see the strong emergence of the Social Web instead of the Semantic Web, and a proposal has been made to use Wikipedia, the largest hierarchical collection of information in the world, as bottom-up input for the ontologies required to give shape to the Semantic Web.
**Jaap Bloem, Menno van Doorn, and Sander Duivestein, in ''Me the media: rise of the conversation society'', [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Ed. VINT printed by Bariet, The Netherlands] (2009) , p. 277, {{ISBN|978 90 75414 22 6}}

* The only solution is to shut [Wikipedia] down and scatter it to the four winds. The idea that experts don't matter but 12 year old Canadians in their basements do is beyond untenable. ... What gives any anonymous douchebag the qualifications to write about ME and then call it encyclopedic? The project has failed from the top down. There is no fixing.
** [[w:Don Murphy|Don Murphy]] writing under username "ColScott" in ''[http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=27677&st=40 Wikipedia Review]'' (6 December 2009)

===2010s===
====2010====
[[File:Jeffrey Tucker Freedomfest 2013.jpg|thumb|So I finally gave in and coughed up a [[donation]] for [[Wikipedia]].  It was no trouble at all, and [[felt]] [[good]].  ...  It's true that giving this way doesn't make rational sense according to a [[neoclassical economics|neoclassical]] idea of what constitutes [[economic]] rationality.  [[Wikipedia]] is free and it will be there whether I give or not.  The same might be said of the [[:w:Ludwig von Mises Institute|Mises Institute]].  If all we cared about were [[commerce|commercial]] exchange, I have every incentive to use the free good and never pay.  There is no harm done in [[:w:free riding|free riding]], right?  [[Ludwig von Mises|Mises]] himself had a broader view of rationality.  He said that all [[actions]] are [[rational]] from the point of view of the actor.  I'm glad to embrace that [[idea]].  Giving in this way is not strictly a [[capitalist]] act if you define capitalism as only commercial exchange based on [[contract]].  But if we see capitalism as the voluntary sector of [[society]] characterized by [[private property]] [[relationships]], this kind of micro-giving is part of that. ~ [[w:Jeffrey Tucker|Jeffrey A. Tucker]] ]]

*Wikipedia is effectively one-of-a-kind. No other mass-market or topically broad wikis have had meaningful success to date. Even Wikimedia's other wiki projects are not nearly as active as Wikipedia. If successful wikis are rare, Wikipedia might be a one-in-a-million lightning strike — some unique combination of factors succeeded in this case, but those circumstances are unlikely to replicate. If so, Wikipedia's rarity might also highlight its fragility.
** [[w:Eric Goldman|Eric Goldman]], Wikipedia's Labor Squeeze and its Consequences, ''Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology'', vol. 8, p. 157 (2010)

* There are a number of trolls, stalkers, and psychopaths who wander around Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects looking for people to harass, stalk, and otherwise ruin the lives of (several have been arrested over their activities here) ... You will eventually say something that will lead back to you, and the stalkers will find it ... I decided to be myself, to never hide my personality, to always be who I am, but to utilize disinformation with regard to what I consider unimportant details: age, location, occupation, etc.
** [[w:Essjay controversy|Ryan Jordan]] quoted in [https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge], by Edwin Black, ''History News Network'' (19 April 2010)

* 1. Wikipedia has no governance to speak of. It's a land of jungle law. 2. Wikipedia has no respect for people and their works. People are treated on Wikipedia like s--t. 3. Wikipedia cannot be trusted for accurate information, considering the agenda-pushing street gangs of wiki. 4. Wikipedia pollutes the internet as well as diminishes scholarship. It floods and pollutes the search engines on the internet and pushes out good scholarship and honest debate in favor of bad scholarship, defamation, and bold face intimidation and thuggery. 5. Wikipedia needs to be brought under the rules of slander, liable [sic], defamation, and copyright laws. 6. Wikipedia should be stripped of its 501c3 status.
** A posting by ''victim of censorship'' in [[w:Wikipedia Review|Wikipedia Review]] (6 December 2009), as quoted in [https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge], by Edwin Black, ''History News Network'' (19 April 2010)

*When I write, I consult Wikipedia 30–40 times a day, because it is really helpful. When I write, I don't remember if someone was born in the 6th century or the 7th; or maybe how many n's are in "Goldmann"... Just a few years ago, for this kind of thing you could waste a lot of time.
**[[Umberto Eco]], [http://it.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione&oldid=876121 interview by Wikinotizie:Wiki@Home], ''Wikimedia Italia'' (24 April 2010)

* At our roundtable, an audience member commented that the web was supposed to offer a [[democratic]] space in which no voices or experiences would be marginalized or ignored. Yet the coverage on Wikipedia has huge gaps, partly because of the interests and knowledge of those who have hitherto been most drawn to contributing: "more than 80 percent [[male]], more than 65 percent [[single]], more than 85 percent without [[children]], around 70 percent under the age of 30." Although Wikipedia boasts thousands of detailed, well-researched, well-referenced articles on scholarly subjects, such as its [[Featured Articles]], entries on fictional locations such as Middle-earth may be much more detailed than entries on real locations, such as countries in [[Africa]].
** [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wiki-hacking:_Opening_up_the_academy_with_Wikipedia Wiki-hacking: Opening up the academy with Wikipedia] (May 29, 2010)

* So I finally gave in and coughed up a [[donation]] for [[Wikipedia]].  It was no trouble at all, and [[felt]] [[good]].  Now I have a sense that I'm a partial owner – a stakeholder of sorts – in this apparatus that I use every day.  ...  [[Giving]] like this can be habit forming.  ...  It's true that giving this way doesn't make rational sense according to a [[:w:neoclassical economics|neoclassical]] idea of what constitutes [[economic]] rationality.  [[Wikipedia]] is free and it will be there whether I give or not.  The same might be said of the [[Ludwig von Mises Institute|Mises Institute]].  If all we cared about were [[commerce|commercial]] exchange, I have every incentive to use the free good and never pay.  There is no harm done in [[free riding]], right?[[Ludwig von Mises|Mises]] himself had a broader view of rationality.  He said that all [[actions]] are [[rational]] from the point of view of the actor.  I'm glad to embrace that [[idea]].  Giving in this way is not strictly a [[capitalist]] act if you define capitalism as only commercial exchange based on [[contract]].  But if we see capitalism as the voluntary sector of [[society]] characterized by [[private property]] [[relationships]], this kind of micro-giving is part of that.
**[[w:Jeffrey Tucker|Jeffrey A. Tucker]], "[https://mises.org/blog/fostering-donation-culture Fostering a Donation Culture]," ''Mises Wire'' (29 December 2010)

*[[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] is, for many users, the primary site for information on the Web ... At present, Wikipedia hosts more than 2.9 million English-language articles, with a total of 13 million articles available in more than 250 different languages ... Wikipedia is the second-most searched site on the Internet, behind only Google.
**Michael Miller, in ''Sam's Teach Yourself Wikipedia in 10 Minutes'' (2010), p. 3 & 5 {{ISBN|978-0-672-33123-7}}

*As [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] founder [[w:Jim Wales|Jim Wales]] revealed, back in 2005, 50 percent of all Wikipedia edits were made by just 0.7 percent of users; 75 percent of all articles were written by less than 2 percent of the user base. These numbers reveal that the active Wikipedia community is a lot smaller than you might think. It's understandable, then, for this active group to be somewhat self-centered, and not always accommodating to new or casual users.
**Michael Miller, in ''Sam's Teach Yourself Wikipedia in 10 Minutes'' (2010), p. 163 {{ISBN|978-0-672-33123-7}}

====2011====
* Concerns among the academic community about the reliability of information from Wikipedia are unlikely to ever be fully alleviated, but this has never been Wikipedia's fundamental goal. Much greater speed in adding and updating information, and involvement of the many rather than the few, have always been seen as ample compensation for any inaccuracies that emerge in the initial posting of entries. Wikipedia, like [[w:The Glass Bead Game|Castalia]], is a flawed ideal but it is, as far as can reasonably be predicted, here to stay.
**Peter Roberts & [[w:Michael Adrian Peters|Michael A. Peters]], [http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/7374/12629360_From%20Castalia%20to%20Wikipedia.pdf?sequence=1 From Castalia to Wikipedia], in ''E-Learning and Digital Media'', vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 36-46 (2011)

* Intuitively [students] are using Wikipedia as one of those [new] tools, creating a new layer of information-filtering to help orient them in the early stages of serious research. As a result, Wikipedia's role as a bridge to the next layer of academic resources is growing stronger.
** Casper Grathwohl, [http://chronicle.com/article/Wikipedia-Comes-of-Age/125899?cid=trend_right_t Wikipedia Comes of Age], ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' (7 January 2011)

*America's daily political vitriol is an undeniable fact. Against that depressing background, it is good to be able to celebrate an American invention which, for all its faults, tries to spread around the world a combination of unpaid idealism, knowledge and stubborn civility.
**[[w:Timothy Garton Ash|Timothy Garton Ash]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/12/wikipedia-us-pioneer-global-idealism "We've seen America's vitriol. Now let's salute Wikipedia, a US pioneer of global civility,"] ''The Guardian'' (12 January 2011); and [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0114-gartonash-wikipedia-20110114,0,2209707.story "Look it up: Wikipedia is turning 10,"] ''The Los Angeles Times'' (14 January 2011).

*It can be stunningly good on obscure corners of popular culture, and strikingly weak on mainstream matters.
**Timothy Garton Ash, "We've seen America's vitriol. Now let's salute Wikipedia, a US pioneer of global civility", ''The Guardian'' (12 January 2011)

*The kind of social production that Wikipedia represents has turned from a laughable utopia to a practical reality. That's the biggest gift that Wikipedia has given to us – a vision of practical utopia that allows us to harness the more sociable, human aspects of who we are to effective collective action.
**[[w:Yochai Benkler|Yochai Benkler]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

*Wikipedia underscores an evolutionary lesson: We've always gotten farther as a species collaborating than going it alone. ... In the past, the groups that cooperated best lived longer and had more kids – and we inherited those tendencies. Groups would correct cheaters (people who didn't share info or goods) through social pressure. So Wikipedia is like humanity's social nature writ large electronically, complete with ongoing disputes and corrections.
**[[w:Mariette DiChristina|Mariette DiChristina]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

*The generation of an infinite number of bogusly 'objective' sentences in an English of agonizing patchwork [[mediocrity]] is no cause for celebration, even if it eventually amounts to a [[Jorge Luis Borges|Borgesian]] paraphrase of our entire universe. ... I liked the internet better before. The mistakes had flavor, passion, transparent purpose.
**[[w:Jonathan Lethem|Jonathan Lethem]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

*The fundamental flaw in the way Wikipedians think about what they do is that they are entirely absorbed in rules and procedures and arguing fine points with one another and earning merit points; it has all the flavour, as has been suggested before, of a great online game. Users – the ostensible audience – are hardly considered.
**[[w:Robert McHenry|Robert McHenry]], [http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/13/wikipedia-viewpoints?page=all "Viewpoints: what the world thinks of Wikipedia,"] ''Wired.co.uk'' (13 January 2011)

*An authority isn't a person or institution who is always right – ain't no such animal. An authority is a person or institution who has a process for lowering the likelihood that they are wrong to acceptably low levels. ... And this is what I think is really worth celebrating as Wikipedia begins its second decade. It took one of the best ideas of the last 500 years – [[peer review]] – and expanded its field of operation so dramatically that it changed the way authority is configured.
**[[Clay Shirky]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

*Warm, kindly, humane Wikipedia didn't grow up in today's Internet. Now it's like a hothouse orchid the size of a barn.
**[[Bruce Sterling]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

* The difference between Wikipedia and other editorially created products is that Wikipedians are not professionals, they are only asked to bring what they know. Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don't benefit from their crumb.
** [[w:Sue Gardner|Sue Gardner]], as quoted in [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List"] by Noam Cohenjan, ''New York Times'' (30 January 2011)

*Every single day for the last 10 years Wikipedia has got better because someone – several million someones in all – decided to make it better. ... Wikipedia is best understood not as a product with an organisation behind it, but as an activity that happens to leave an encyclopedia in its wake.
**[[Clay Shirky]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/14/wikipedia-unplanned-miracle-10-years "Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle,"] ''The Guardian'' (14 February 2011)

*Watching [[pornography]] [...] is like going to a Wikipedia page. You search for a specific thing, a specific feeling, a specific result, and that's exactly what you find.
**[[w:Meg Wolitzer|Meg Wolitzer]], "[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/fashion/17Cultural.html The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral]", ''New York Times'' (15 April 2011)

* Wikipedia was an idea whose time had come on an information-driven net whose consumers couldn't wait for the slow workings of expertise or the cost of proprietary content: a free encyclopedia written by anonymous users supposedly striving for an “unbiased” perspective. ... Wikipedia in practice has strayed from these utopian ideas because of the ease with which political and social bias trumps altruism. ... Finding examples of Wikipedia's bias is not difficult. One need only compare the entries of figures who do the same thing but from opposite sides of the political spectrum.
** David Swindle in [https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/102601/how-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1-david-swindle How the left conquered Wikipedia, Part 1], ''FrontPage Mag'' (22 August 2011)

* I am astonished at the ethical blindness of Bell Pottinger's reaction. That their strongest true response is they didn't break the law tells a lot about their view of the world, I'm afraid.
**[[Jimmy Wales]] on [[w:Bell Pottinger|Bell Pottinger]]'s admission of paid editing, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wikipedia-founder-attacks-bell-pottinger-for-ethical-blindness-6273836.html Wikipedia founder attacks Bell Pottinger for 'ethical blindness'], ''Independent'' (8 December 2011)

====2012====

* But the blot on the encyclopedia's fair name is not just in the wrongness of the statement, but in its partisan and non-encyclopedic nature.... If Wikipedia wants to live up to its promise of being a reliable encyclopedic source, it will strike this and all sentences resembling it from its article on me. At most, it can use me as an example of how it was fooled by some of its all-too-partisan collaborators. Speaking of whom: the history page accompanying my page proves forever that some Wikipedia collaborators wanted to inflict on me the maximum harm possible, an attitude incompatible with work for an encyclopedia. Shouldn't Wikipedia fire them and wipe out everything they wrote? Of course they can still contribute blogs and columns, by preference under their own full names, but they have proven themselves not to be encyclopedic authorities...
** Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012)

*We don't want Wikipedia to be just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica: We want it to have 55 times as many entries, present contentious debates fairly, and reflect brand new scholarly research, all while being edited and overseen primarily by volunteers.
**Rebecca J. Rosen, "[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/does-wikipedia-have-an-accuracy-problem/253216/ Does Wikipedia Have an Accuracy Problem?]", ''The Atlantic'' (16 February 2012)

*Despite being staffed entirely by an army of volunteers, Wikipedia – which is not, strictly speaking, a news site – is keeping pace with conventional media outlets. Official results make their way to athletes' Wikipedia pages within hours, and sometimes minutes, of their finish. With dedicated editors working 24/7, Wikipedia pages are proving to be faster, leaner and more popular alternatives to traditional reporting.
**Brian Mossop, [http://www.wired.com/2012/08/how-wikipedia-won-olympic-gold/ "How Wikipedia won Olympic Gold"], wired.com (10 August 2012)

*Wikipedia, as you well know, is a fraudulent encyclopedia. It's sort of invented. And we all go to it. The entry under Michael Savage – I have one person who keeps trying to correct the truth. But the soviets, that is the communists, that is the liberals, that is the democrats, have at least ninety-nine people who attack my site, every time he makes a correction. For example, when he reenters that Michael Savage single-handedly stopped the Dubai Ports Deal? They take it out of there. They don't want anyone to know it. In other words, they revise my history, the way the soviets did to individuals that they wanted to destroy in their country. Now you understand why I'm not allowed on any television station. Why Michael Savage is an unknown individual in America, except to its millions of listeners. And why this show is number two on the Internet and radio. And why I have six best sellers in a row. Because somehow the truth is getting out. But I'm warning you about Wikipedia. If Wikipedia doesn't stop these ninety-nine democrat liberal soviets from modifying things that are true, then how could you rely upon a website that's so fraudulent? You can't. You can't! But I can't fight every battle every day, you understand that?
** [[Michael Savage]], ''[[:w:The Savage Nation|The Savage Nation]]'' (7 September 2012)

* Wikipedians [...] act as de facto topic moderators, they often end up being biased and frequently quirky. ... Articles are often edited with the sensibility of adolescent too-clever-by-half males[, which] describes a lot of Wikipedians.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [https://www.quora.com/What-are-Wikipedias-flaws What are Wikipedia's flaws?], ''Quora'' (2 November 2012)

====2013====
* It is partly a product of history, where we came from in the early days. We were really a child of the [[w:Dot-com bubble|dot-com crash]]. There was no investment money. We were just a group of people on the internet trying to do something cool. A lot of the volunteers wanted to put it into the non-profit [Wikimedia Foundation] – made sense to me.
** [[Jimmy Wales]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hogrhfS8Tws Exclusive interview with Jimmy Wales-Founder of Wikipedia], ''Corporate Valley'' (27 March 2013)

* The site I avoid at all cost is Wikipedia, which for many subjects I've found to be a trove of misinformation. I don't even have any desire to read my own Wikipedia article.
** Gwenda Bond, [http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/56795-the-changing-world-of-reference-focus-on-reference-2012.html The Changing World of Reference: Focus on Reference 2013], ''Publishers Weekly'' (12 April 2013)

* It all started one night when writer [[Amanda Filipacchi]] was browsing through Wikipedia and noticed an absence of women under the category "American novelists." At first, she thought the female writers being moved off the page were not important enough to be on it. But then she discovered some obscure male novelists were still listed, while some well-known women were not.
** '''[https://www.npr.org/2013/04/29/179850435/what-s-in-a-category-women-novelists-spark-wiki-controversy What's In A Category? 'Women Novelists' Sparks Wiki-Controversy]''' (April 29, 2013)

* As they say, [[history]] is written by the victorious Wikipedia editors.
** Marya Hannun, "[http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/07/the_wikipedia_war_over_egypts_coup The Wikipedia War Over Egypt's 'Coup']", ''FP Passport'' (7 July 2013)

* Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered. ...less than 5% of all languages can still ascend to the digital realm. We present evidence of a massive die-off caused by the digital divide. ... To summarize a key result of this study...: No wikipedia, no ascent.
** [[w:András Kornai|András Kornai]], [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0077056 Digital Language Death], ''PLoS ONE 8(10)'' (22 October 2013)

* It rarely tries new things in the hope of luring visitors; in fact, it has changed little in a decade.
** Tom Simonite, [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/ The Decline of Wikipedia], ''MIT Technology Review'' (22 October 2013)

====2014====

* Beneath its reasonably serene surface, the website can be as ugly and bitter as [[w:4chan|4chan]] and as mind-numbingly bureaucratic as a [[Kafka]] story. And it can be particularly unwelcoming to women.
*The problem instead stems from the fact that administrators and longtime editors have developed a fortress mentality in which they see new editors as dangerous intruders who will wreck their beautiful encyclopedia, and thus antagonize and even persecute them.
* We can learn a lot from Wikipedia about Internet governance and collective knowledge-building. It’s ultimately up to the site’s editors to choose to learn to temper their fortress mentality, get more outside eyes and ears, listen to the most moderate and reflective among them, and perhaps even entertain the idea that they might sometimes be wrong. Wikipedia’s future may depend on it.
*Wikipedia is amazing. But it’s become a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess.
*Last week, Wikipedia’s highest court, the Arbitration Committee, composed of 12 elected volunteers who serve one- or two-year terms, handed down a decision in a controversial case having to do with the site’s self-formed Gender Gap Task Force, the goal of which is to increase female participation on Wikipedia from its current 10 percent to 25 percent by the end of next year. The dispute, which involved ongoing hostility from a handful of prickly longtime editors, had simmered for at least 18 months. In the end, the only woman in the argument, pro-GGTF libertarian feminist Carol Moore, was indefinitely banned from all of Wikipedia over her uncivil comments toward a group of male editors, whom she at one point dubbed “the Manchester Gangbangers and their cronies/minions.”
**Encyclopedia Frown, By David Auerbach, Dec 11, 2014 [https://slate.com/technology/2014/12/wikipedia-editing-disputes-the-crowdsourced-encyclopedia-has-become-a-rancorous-sexist-mess.html ''Slate'']

*Dealing with the Wikipedians is like walking into a mental hospital: the floors are carpeted, the walls are nicely padded, but you know there's a pretty good chance at any given moment one of the inmates will pick up a knife.
**Anonymous Wiki-PR client, cited by Judith-Newman in [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/fashion/Wikipedia-Judith-Newman.html?_r=0 Wikipedia-Mania], ''New York Times'' (9 January 2014)

*Every single person who signed this petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about what it means to be honest, factual, truthful. Wikipedia's policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals - that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately. What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse".
** Jimmy Wales on 23 March 2014, answering 7,790+ persons who objected to Wikipedia's coverage of "holistic approaches to healing", as quoted by Alexandra Sifferlin in [http://time.com/36938/wikipedia-founder-sticks-it-to-lunatic-holistic-healers/ Wikipedia Founder Sticks It To 'Lunatic' Holistic Healers], ''Time'' (25 March 2014)

* Today, this [[democratic]] [[federation]] [Wikimedia] controls a large proportion of the sum of human knowledge, largely displacing the former [[Britannica]] [[Empire]] which had once stretched from A to {{w|Zymotic Diseases}}.
**[https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Joke_articles/Wikipedia W!k!ped!a travel guide] April 1, 2014

* ...when I used to teach kids, there was a fierce debate between teachers on the pro versus the anti Wikipedia side, and I always came down very strongly on the pro side, and I told my students if they were researching something for me – like Wikipedia is totally OK. Copy and pasting from Wikipedia is not, but there is no place to get a better overview from things. ... it all depends on what do you need, and if you just want to check some quick fact about something, Wikipedia is totally reliable. Now there's reasons why you can't cite it as a source, but ignoring that for the time being, Wikipedia for a huge number of people's needs is totally fine. ... the thing that is disturbing is the number times that that source link does not go anywhere, or, I have found some times where the context of the source link says something that is completely contrary to the feeling that you got from the Wikipedia page itself ...
** [[w:CGP Grey|CGP Grey]] from 31:05 in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGa3ah03uBI H.I. #1: Being Wrong on The Internet], ''Hello Internet'' on ''YouTube'' (30 April 2014)

* You'd be amazed at the number of times I've been with top professors in the field and I've asked them a question and they've said, 'I'm not too sure about that, let me check', and gone straight to Wikipedia.
** [[w:Brady Haran|Brady Haran]] from 31:30 in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGa3ah03uBI H.I. #1: Being Wrong on The Internet], ''Hello Internet'' on ''YouTube'' (30 April 2014)

*With such a massive amount of rules and regulations to adhere to, how is it not absolutely deterring for newcomers to join Wikipedia? Most likely, because they do not even know these rules exist. Counter-intuitive as it may sound, in spite of all the regulations, it is perfectly fine and acceptable to just use common sense when editing Wikipedia, relying on one's best judgment on how to make it a better encyclopedia. In fact, one of the Wikipedia policies goes even further and states that “If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it,” and one of the five pillars of Wikipedia claims that “Wikipedia has policies and guidelines, but they are not carved in stone; their content and interpretation can evolve over time. Their principles and spirit matter more than their literal wording, and sometimes improving Wikipedia requires making an exception.” In a similar spirit, there is a rule stating that instruction creep should be avoided and that pettifogging is not welcome. One policy, which describes what Wikipedia is not, insists that Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy.
** [[w:Dariusz Jemielniak|Dariusz Jemielniak]], [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/06/wikipedia_s_bureaucracy_problem_and_how_to_fix_it.html "The Unbearable Bureaucracy of Wikipedia"] in ''Slate'' (22 June 2014)

* Whether or not ''Wikipedia'' has managed to attain the authority level of traditional encyclopaedias, it has undoubtedly become a model of what the collaborative Internet community can and cannot do.
**The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, "[http://www.britannica.com/topic/Wikipedia Wikipedia]", ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (28 October 2014)

*Most have simply washed their hands of the problem, claiming that the bigotry or bias on Wikipedia is just an unfortunate side-effect that we have to accept. But this is not a trivial unintended consequence of an open source system; bias goes against the very principle of Wikipedia and must be addressed. I have to deal with this bias and misinformation every time a journalist interviews me and references my Wikipedia article. I need to spend the first 30 minutes of interviews to correct all the misleading information from my Wikipedia article... Most of the skeptic editors on my article believe me to be a very dangerous man — and believe that it is Wikipedia's responsibility to warn the world of how dangerous my ideas are.
**Deepak Chopra, 05/15/2014 [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wikipedia-a-new-perspecti_b_5332504 Wikipedia, A New Perspective on an Old Problem]

* The prime agent of this change is a development that nobody (save perhaps [[Douglas Adams]], author of ''The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy'') would have predicted.<ref>“Most of the actual work got done by any passing stranger who happened to wander into the empty offices of an afternoon and saw something worth doing.” Douglas Adams, ''Life, the Universe and Everything'' in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts]]'' (Pan, 1992)</ref> It is called Wikipedia—an online encyclopedia collectively produced and edited by 'amateurs' who have created what is effectively the greatest reference work the world has yet produced.
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:* [[w:John Naughton|John Naughton]] in: ''From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet'', Quercus, 2014, Chapter 3, page 65 (ISBN 9781623650629). First published in 2012.

====2015====
* And then there's Wikipedia – astroturf's dream come true. Billed as the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, the reality can't be more different. Anonymous Wikipedia editors control and co-opt pages on behalf of special interests. They forbid and reverse edits that go against their agenda. They skew and delete information, in blatant violation of Wikipedia's own established policies, with impunity – always superior to the poor schleps who actually believe anyone can edit Wikipedia, only to discover they're barred from correcting even the simplest factual inaccuracies. Try adding a footnoted fact, or correcting a factual error on one of these monitored Wikipedia pages, then poof! Sometimes within a matter of seconds you'll find your edit is reversed.
** [[w:Sharyl Attkisson|Sharyl Attkisson]] in her TEDxUniversityofNevada talk "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU Astroturf and manipulation of media messages]", published 6 February 2015 on ''YouTube'', quoted by Sarah Chaffee in [https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/wikipedia-and-astroturf/ ''Wikipedia'' and “Astroturf”], ''Evolution News'', 30 November 2017

* Could the pressure from mobile, and the internal tensions, tear Wikipedia apart? A world without it seems unimaginable, but consider the fate of other online communities. ... The real challenges for Wikipedia are to resolve the governance disputes – the tensions among foundation employees, longtime editors trying to protect their prerogatives, and new volunteers trying to break in – and to design a mobile-oriented editing environment. ... The worst scenario is an end to Wikipedia, not with a bang but with a whimper: a long, slow decline in participation, accuracy and usefulness that is not quite dramatic enough to jolt the community into making meaningful reforms. No effort in history has gotten so much information at so little cost into the hands of so many – a feat made all the more remarkable by the absence of profit and owners. In an age of Internet giants, this most selfless of websites is worth saving.
** [[Andrew Lih]], ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html Can Wikipedia Survive?]'', ''{{w|The New York Times}}'' (20 June 2015)

* When Wikipedia launched, it raised immediate concerns about the sanctity of accreditation – could knowledge be created by amateurs? But its steady rise in utility meant that, in time, nearly everyone made their peace with it – some more happily than others.
**Paul Ford, "[https://newrepublic.com/article/122954/chaotic-wisdom-wikipedia-paragraphs The Chaotic Wisdom of Wikipedia Paragraphs]", ''New Republic'' (8 October 2015)

* The Wikimedia Foundation has gotten far off track. Every year, it builds its campaign around a budget many millions larger than the year before.
**Pete Forsyth (Wikipedia consultant and former member of Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising team) in [http://enterprise.vnews.com/2015/12/06/wikipedia-has-lots-of-money/ Wikipedia Has Lots of Money], by Caitlin Dewey, ''The Washington Post'' (6 December 2015)

* If you're selling to customers that you're familiar and competent with new media, and you can't manage something like Wikipedia, that's a failure.
**Pete Forsyth of Wiki Strategies, [http://observer.com/2015/12/sunshine-sachs-wikipedia-whitewash/ The Big Oops: Sunshine Sachs' Wikipedia Whitewash], ''Observer News'' (17 December 2015)

*It is clear that our deep state is obsessed with controlling information and moulding it to fit its narrative. On Wikipedia, a number of 'users' and 'editors' have been planted to ensure that only Pakistan's official stance or the Nazaria-e-Pakistan [ideology of Pakistan] is reflected in the pages on Pakistan. Consequently, the pages on Pakistan's history read like a secondary school Pakistan Studies textbook... All alternative views on Pakistan's constitution, role of religion and federalism are stifled by this group...If one were to venture a guess it would be that these manipulators of the Pakistani narrative on sites like Wikipedia and others are operating out of some nondescript building in Islamabad's G sectors [where Pakistani intelligence agencies are located].
**Yasser Latif Hamdani, Daily Times, "Manipulating the Pakistani narrative" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-18/In_the_media#Are_Pakistan_articles_being_manipulated.3]

====2016====
[[File:India Nigeria Locator.png|thumb|right|In India and Nigeria, over 75% of participants said they had never heard of Wikipedia. ~ Zachary McCune (Wikimedia Foundation)]]
* A lot of students write a paper for a class, and eventually it winds up in the dustbin. When students write an article for Wikipedia, they have to learn to collaborate, to research and to write for a popular audience, and their work will benefit the millions of people using the site.
**[[w:How Wikipedia Works|Phoebe Ayers]], [http://news.mit.edu/2016/phoebe-ayers-wikipedia-erasmus-prize-0105 MIT Libraries' Phoebe Ayers accepts Erasmus Prize on behalf of Wikipedia], ''MIT News'' (5 January 2016)

* Linux and Wikipedia (as well as other, less known achievements) show unambiguously that the idea of requiring any kind of payment for great tools, culture, or knowledge to come into being is an utter falsehood.
** [[w:Rick Falkvinge|Rick Falkvinge]], [https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-industry-rhetoric-ignores-the-existence-of-linux-and-wikipedia-011016/ Copyright industry rhetoric ignores the existence of Linux and Wikipedia], ''TorrentFreak'' (10 January 2016)

* For a website with no paid writing staff that is still overcoming an out-of-date reputation for inaccuracy, Wikipedia punches above its weight. ...it is especially powerful in an election season: On the day of the 2012 election, Barack Obama's and Mitt Romney's entries alone were read 1.6 million times. [...] you can see a virtual version of the presidential race playing out every day.
** Jeremy B. Merrill, [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/us/politics/wikipedia-donald-trump-2016-election.html?_r=0 "On Wikipedia, Donald Trump Reigns and Facts Are Open to Debate"] (1 February 2016)

* It turns out there are people, typically they're probably unemployed kids with student debt you know that are stuck in their parents' basement with Cheetos stains on their t-shirts that haven't been able to get their first job so what they do is they play games to see how long they can edit Wikipedia pages in order to have games with their friends all around the world. So my advice to you is, if you do have a Wikipedia page, check it once in a while...
** {{cite web | author = [[w:Jeb Bush|Jeb Bush]] | date = 8 February 2016 | title= Jeb Bush Remarks in Nashua, New Hampshire | url = http://www.c-span.org/video/?404395-1/jeb-bush-remarks-nashua-new-hampshire | work = C-SPAN }}

* ... what Wikipedia and Facebook teach us is that social models of content curation and collaboration '''''do''''' scale. ...organisations will increasingly need to crowd-source a lot of their meta-data. ... In other words, [organisations] will need to build a Corporate Data Catalogue that looks and feels a lot like Wikipedia, but which borrows the “like” and “share” concepts from Facebook.
** Martin Willcox, [http://www.forbes.com/sites/teradata/2016/03/11/what-enterprise-information-management-can-learn-from-facebook-and-wikipedia/#694af7c027e4 What Enterprise Information Management Can Learn From Facebook And Wikipedia], ''Forbes / Business'' (11 March 2016)

* Wikipedia is the most comprehensive compendium of up-to-date knowledge assembled at gargantuan scale almost entirely by volunteers. It works, too, because they form a huge community that for reasons of camaraderie, rivalry, vanity, purity and sometimes just deep suspicion constantly monitor and vet one another's work. There are flaws in the process, but each entry is a living organism that matures and self-corrects over time.
** [[w:Bob Garfield|Bob Garfield]], [http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/271066/revenue-who-needs-revenue.html Revenue? Who Needs Revenue?], ''Garfield at Large'', ''MediaPost'' (14 March 2016)

* Wikipedia is an exceptional case. If we can figure out how it becomes sustainable, that would be a major contribution. Because it's a new way of managing human resources.
** Aleksi Aaltonen of [[w:Warwick Business School|Warwick Business School]], in [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/wikipedia-cumulative-growth-effect/473994/ Wikipedia and the Momentum of Tiny Edits], by ''Adrienne Lafrance'', ''[[w:The Atlantic|The Atlantic]]'' (16 March 2016)

* We thought, let's not fight Wikipedia, but instead teach students to use it better.
** Ashley Downs, librarian at [[w:Cornell University Library|Mann Library]], in [http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/03/cornell-takes-big-red-pen-wikipedia-life-sciences-content Cornell takes big red pen to Wikipedia life sciences content], by Amruta Byatnal, CornellChronicle (22 March 2016)

* About a decade ago I migrated into community work from a non-community background. This is the guide I wish I had read back then. When I say community work, I am talking about stuff like Wikipedia: large distributed groups of people doing something together, usually online, often unpaid. Usually international, often nerdy, often (but not always) FLOSS or FLOSS-adjacent.
** [[Sue Gardner]] [https://suegardner.org A little guide to working with online communities] March 21, 2016

* ...people have talked about [[:w:Open-source governance|open politics]] and things like that, and its really hard sometimes to say that yes, you can apply the same principles in some other areas...  So, obviously open source in science is making a comeback. Science was there first. But then science ended up by being pretty closed with very expensive journals and some of that going on. And open source is making a comeback in science with things like arXiv and open journals. Wikipedia changed the world too. ... So there are other examples. I am sure there are more to come. ... It is up to you guys to make them.
** [[Linus Torvalds]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8NPllzkFhE interview with TED curator Chris Anderson], ''TED Talks'' (c. 3 May 2016)

* Like many university lecturers, I used to warn my own students off using Wikipedia (as pointless an injunction as telling them not to use Google, or not to leave their essay to the last minute). I finally gave up doing so about three years ago,...
** Peter Thonemann, [http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/encyclopedic-knowledge/ The all-conquering Wikipedia?], ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (25 May 2016)

* Two years before Wikipedia, I had the dream, the vision, of a free encyclopedia written by volunteers in all the languages of the world. This inspiration came to me from watching the growth of free software, [[w:Open-source software|open-source software]], as most people know it. And watching programmers coming together and giving away their work for free online.
** Jimmy Wales interviewed by Joe Pascal, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4_G9Z40GIE Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales on Creating Wikipedia], ''YouTube'' (June 2016)

* In India and Nigeria, over 75% of participants said they had never heard of Wikipedia.
** Zachary McCune (Wikimedia Foundation), [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/11/discovering-wikipedia/ People all over the world have yet to discover Wikipedia. We went to them to find out why.], ''Wikimedia blog'' (11 October 2016)

* Progress has been slow, but several independent ventures show how the attitudes of major players in the biomedical ecosystem are beginning to shift further, and take Wikipedia more seriously.
** Thomas Shafee, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-conversation-global/wikipedia-is-already-the_b_12538740.html Wikipedia is already the world's ‘Dr Google' - it's time for doctors and researchers to make it better], The Blog, ''Huffington Post'' (18 October 2016)

* Regardless, this new research shows that Wikipedia editors of different opinions have strived for consensus over time. That's opposed to Facebook or Twitter, where people are siloed into their own self-reinforcing echo chambers. ... Consider this a version of the “miracle of aggregation” – that large groups of people are able to act rationally and solve problems despite having vastly different interests.
** Robert Gebelhoff, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/10/19/science-shows-wikipedia-is-the-best-part-of-the-internet/?utm_term=.f2174a634db8 Science shows Wikipedia is the best part of the Internet], ''The Washington Post'' (19 October 2016)

====2017====
[[File:Larry Sanger cropped.jpg|thumb|right|As the originator of [the neutrality policy,] I completely despair of persuading Wikipedians of the error of their ways.
~ [[Larry Sanger]] ]]
* ...phishing on Wikipedia is effective enough – and lucrative enough – to retain the interest of the dark net's richest dwellers. ... Although Wikipedia's editors work to root out the false links, it's a slow and never-ending fight.
** Patrick O'Neill, [https://www.cyberscoop.com/dark-net-crooks-wage-easy-profitable-phishing-war-wikipedia/ Dark net crooks wage an easy and profitable phishing scheme on Wikipedia], ''Cyberscoop'' (27 January 2017)

* The researchers [...] found that the Wikipedia entries were written at a much higher reading level compared with the medication guides and well above the average consumer reading level, which could contribute to patient misunderstanding of medication information. ... The study authors conclude that as the public use of Wikipedia increases, the need for health care professionals and the pharmaceutical industry to actively educate and provide reliable resources to patients remains important.
** Mary Warner, [https://www.pharmacist.com/article/japha-study-shows-incomplete-and-inaccurate-patient-drug-information-wikipedia JAPhA study shows incomplete and inaccurate patient drug information on Wikipedia], pharmacist.com (30 January 2017)

* Page views of Wikipedia are immense compared with views of primary literature articles. As a result, if you edit a page to include results from your research, your audience will likely expand by at least an order of magnitude.
** Evan B. Goldstein, [https://eos.org/opinions/three-reasons-why-earth-scientists-should-edit-wikipedia Three Reasons Why Earth Scientists Should Edit Wikipedia], eos.org (27 January 2017)

* For the record the Daily Mail banned all its journalists from using Wikipedia as a sole source in 2014 because of its unreliability.
** Spokesman for Mail Newspapers, [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source], by Jasper Jackson, ''The Guardian'' (8 February 2017)

* The fate that befell the Mail happened for one reason, and one reason alone: it's terrible, and by banning it, Wikipedia sends a message that it values its credibility.
** Matthew Hughes, [https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/02/09/wikipedia-just-banned-contributors-citing-daily-mail-source/ Wikipedia just banned contributors from citing the Daily Mail as a source], ''Insider'' (10 February 2017)

* Wikipedians this week added greatly to the amusement of the internet after around 40 contributors loftily declared that the Daily Mail was not a reliable source for citations. Much public hilarity ensued – for the reason that The Mail and Wikipedia are really far more alike than either would care to admit. ... Both can resemble a real chamber of horrors.
** Andrew Orlowski, [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/13/the_mail_vs_wikipedia_more_alike_than_theyd_ever_admit/ The Mail vs Wikipedia: They're more alike than they'd ever admit], ''The Register'' (13 February 2017)

* However clumsy the Youth Parliament's approach to Wikipedia may be, it's still an improvement on a government order issued by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev last August, when he established a working group to study the creation of an all new Russian-engineered Wikipedia clone.
** Kevin Rothrock, [https://globalvoices.org/2017/02/24/russian-government-youth-group-wants-to-make-wikipedia-more-patriotic/ Russian Government Youth Group Wants to Make Wikipedia More Patriotic], ''Global Voices'' (24 February 2017)

* ...for an organisation that calls itself a ‘small non-profit' business and begs users for donations (‘the price of a cup of coffee') to keep it afloat, it enjoys bulging cash reserves. The Foundation's accounts show it has assets of more than $90 million (£73 million), and spent $31 million (£25 million) in salaries last year, up from $26 million (£21 million) the year before. ... Are these amounts not excessive?
** Guy Adams, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4280502/Anonymous-Wikipedia-activists-promote-warped-agenda.html The making of a Wiki-Lie: Chilling story of one twisted oddball and a handful of anonymous activists who appointed themselves as censors to promote their own warped agenda on a website that's a byword for inaccuracy], ''The Daily Mail'' (4 March 2017)

* ...this ban has set a dangerous precedent, raising profoundly troubling questions about free speech and censorship in the online era. ...a social media giant whose pages are riddled with inaccuracies, unilaterally deciding, at the request of a handful of people, that a major newspaper is somehow not valid.
** Guy Adams, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4280502/Anonymous-Wikipedia-activists-promote-warped-agenda.html The making of a Wiki-Lie: Chilling story of one twisted oddball and a handful of anonymous activists who appointed themselves as censors to promote their own warped agenda on a website that's a byword for inaccuracy], ''The Daily Mail'' (4 March 2017)

* False information is being disseminated at a far greater rate when it seems to have been vetted by a brand name and Wikipedia's branding is global. It would be ideal if a more credible site like Encyclopedia Britannica or a useful news site like Reuters could be granted the “zero-rate” – but those sites [...] do [not] have the same foundational interest in spreading their content without financial gain that Wikipedia has.
** Jillian Sequeira, [https://lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/technology-blog/wikipedia-zero/ The Strange Case of Wikipedia Zero], ''Law Street'' (5 March 2017)

* Wikipedia, as it is currently run, is simply and literally out of control, and a potential menace to all kinds of institutions and individuals. This is an organisation that – quite scandalously – polices itself, judges itself, and legitimises itself. It is always right because it decides what is right. You are always wrong because it decides what is wrong. ... And it has power without responsibility or accountability. ... It is high time this arrogant, self-admiring, self-regulating, often bullying organisation be placed under the formal supervision of an independent watchdog.
** [[w:Graham McCann|Graham McCann]], [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4307480/Writers-reveal-Wikipedia-s-insidious-Kafkaesque-control.html WIKI-LIES (Cont...) It's the self-policing web encyclopaedia that has banned the Mail as a source. But as these deeply disturbing accounts reveal, its pages are littered with inaccuracies - and God help the victims who dare complain], ''Daily Mail'' (13 March 2017)

* I fear we are moving beyond a natural skepticism regarding expert claims to the death of the ideal of expertise itself: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laypeople, teachers and students, knowers and wonderers – in other words, between those with achievement in an area and those with none.
** [[w:Tom Nichols (academic)|Tom Nichols]] in [https://fbkfinanzwirtschaft.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/how-america-lost-faith-in-expertise-and-why-thats-a-giant-problem/ How America Lost Faith in Expertise – And Why That's a Giant Problem], ''Foreign Affairs'' (March/April 2017)

* Despite being an American-born site, its popularity and utility have expanded around the world since its foundation in 2001.
** Maria Barrios, [http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2017/05/11/a-world-without-wikipedia/ A world without Wikipedia?], ''TheUpComing'' (11 May 2017)

* Wikipedia has often been treated by news organizations like the black sheep of the information business. ... But as trust in the media wanes and news organizations struggle to engage with readers, Wikipedia has emerged as a leader in transparency and user growth...
** Rebecca Iannucci, [https://www.poynter.org/2017/what-can-fact-checkers-learn-from-wikipedia-we-asked-the-boss-of-its-nonprofit-owner/465634/ What can fact-checkers learn from Wikipedia? We asked the boss of its nonprofit owner], ''Poynter'' (6 July 2017)

* The cyber age has tremendous potential, as indicated by Wikipedia. But if it bypasses space and time where there's just this obsession with the present – this neglect of our heritage and history – then our world will change.
** [[w:Anthony Kennedy|Anthony Kennedy]] on 24 July 2017 at the [http://www.salzburgglobal.org/topics/article/justice-anthony-kennedy-speaks-at-salzburg-academy-on-media-and-global-change.html Salzburg Global Seminar], Austria, ''Salzburg Academy of Media and Global Change'' (25 July 2017)

* For the benefit of Wales as a nation, it is crucial that Wikipedia contains a wealth of knowledge about its history and culture and that the range of articles on the [[w:Welsh Wikipedia|Welsh language Wicipedia]] covers the widest possible range of subjects.
** Pedr ap Llwyd, director of collections and public programmes at [[w:National Library of Wales|National Library of Wales]], in [http://businessnewswales.com/uk-first-national-library-wales-appoints-wikimedian/ UK First as National Library of Wales Appoints Wikimedian] by Dan Foulkes, ''BusinessNewsWales'' (8 August 2017)

* Unlike some commercial companies, Wikimedia has no incentive to cave into authoritarian demands to self-censor.
** John Lubbock (Wikimedia Foundation), [https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/john-lubbock/authoritarian-governments-hate-wikipedia-which-is-exactly-why-you-should-get-involved Authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia, which is why you should get involved], ''openDemocracy'' (11 August 2017)

* The online crowd-sourced encyclopedia is perceived as increasingly trustworthy, [...] with immediate impacts on scientific literacy.
** Thomas Shafee, et al. [http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6351/557.2/tab-pdf Academics can help shape Wikipedia], ''Science'', Vol. 357, Issue 6351, pp. 557-558 (11 August 2017)

* Wikipedia, like other new, non-commercial information technologies, can be used to open new public spaces for [indigenous] languages, and gradually recover the ground lost to more dominant languages. ... However, the representation of indigenous languages on the platform is very low,... [In [[:w:Latin America|Latin America]] indigenous communities speak 420 different languages.] To date, only four official indigenous-language versions are represented: [[:w:Quechuan languages|Quechua]] ..., [[:w:Nahuatl|Náhuatl]] ..., [[:w:Aymara language|Aymara]] ... and [[:w:Guarani language|Guaraní]].
** Rodrigo Pérez, [https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2017/09/06/the-prospects-for-the-sum-of-all-human-knowledge-in-wikipedia-in-indigenous-languages/ The Prospects for the Sum of All Human Knowledge in Wikipedia in Indigenous Languages], ''Global Voices'' – ''RisingVoices'' (6 September 2017)

* As the originator of and the first person to elaborate [[w:Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|Wikipedia's neutrality policy]], and as an [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] who believes [[intelligent design]] to be completely wrong, I just have to say that this article is appallingly biased. ... I'm not here to argue the point, as I completely despair of persuading Wikipedians of the error of their ways.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [[w:Talk:Intelligent_design#My $0.02 on the issue of bias|My $0.02 on the issue of bias]], Wikipedia talk page: [[w:Intelligent design|Intelligent design]] (8 December 2017)

* In many ways Wikipedia pioneered the [fake news] phenomenon, and journalists' lazy reliance on using it as a source helped falsities to propagate on a scale never seen before.
** [[w:Andrew Orlowski|Andrew Orlowski]], [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/12/jimmy_wales_fake_news_keynote/ Why is Wikipedia man Jimbo Wales keynoting a fake news conference?], ''The Register'' (12 December 2017)

* As we are trying to deal with all this terrorism, [Wikipedia] makes us look like we work with terror groups.
** [[w:Ahmet Arslan (politician)|Ahmet Arslan]], Turkish communications minister, explaining the ban on Wikipedia imposed in April 2017, [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/wikipedia-should-blame-itself-for-ban-in-turkey-minister-124352 Wikipedia has itself to blame for ban in Turkey: Minister], ''Hürriyet Daily News'' (18 December 2017)

====2018====
* * But on Wikipedia, as in the real world, the users with the deepest technical knowledge of firearms are also the most fervent gun owners and the most hostile to gun control. For critics, that’s led to a persistent pro-gun bias on the web’s leading source of neutral information at a time when the gun control debate is more heated than ever.
** {{cite news |title=How gun buffs took over Wikipedia’s AR-15 page; After Parkland, gun control information was strangely hard to find |first=Russell |last=Brandom |date=March 6, 2018 |accessdate=March 9, 2018 |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/6/17086794/ar-15-wikipedia-gun-control-parkland-mass-shooting |work=[[w:The Verge|The Verge]] |publisher=[[w:Vox Media|Vox Media]]}}

* Wikipedia is basically a format in which people who hate you can go into your ... , I don't even know what you call these, into the search of your name, and then there I have a profile of sorts, into my profiler page, and poison it. ... "Views on political issues, groups and politicians" – [...] what happened between 2009 and 2017? Well, doesn't matter. ... What was my context for [calling [[Bernie Sanders]] a "radical Marxist who believes in violence"]? They don't even discuss it, the [[w:2017 Congressional baseball shooting|shooting in Alexandria]]. ... [That paragraph] is all mickey mouse stuff. It is cut and paste cherry picking. ... I've written about [progressivism] in great length, but not a word in my "political views". ... Who has a section on "controversial views"? It is as if it is written by ''[[w:Media Matters for America|Media Matters]]''. ... "Levin compared supporters of the [[w:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|Affordable Care Act]] to Nazi [[w:Sturmabteilung|brown shirts]]." ... No I didn't! Completely taken out of context! ... If you want to know about me, you should go as far away from the Wikipedia page as possible... ... What they're supposed to do, if they're a responsible organisation, is to get the basic information on me [...] and lock it so that miscreants and malcontents can't abuse and post it. ... Very, very dishonest information in there. ... The book reviews are scores positive, maybe one or two negative by leftists and so forth. You would have no idea reading their comments about my books on Wikipedia.
** [[w:Mark Levin|Mark Levin]] in [https://soundcloud.com/conservativereview/mark-levin-avoid-wikipedia-like-the-plague Mark Levin: Avoid Wikipedia like the plague], Chris Pandolfo, ''Conservative Review'' (19 January 2018)

* Why is Wikipedia so good? I'm not sure, but part of it is the internal review process started by Jimmy Wales. Other Wikis fail miserably; I no longer look at [[w:WikiAnswers|WikiAnswers]], because I rarely get good help from it. So a publicly edited encyclopedia isn't obviously going to work, but somehow Wikipedia pulled it off.
** [[w:Richard A. Muller|Richard Muller]] in [https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/03/01/im-a-college-professor-and-this-is-why-i-encourage-my-students-to-use-wikipedia/#5e204d527289 I'm A College Professor, And This Is Why I Encourage My Students To Use Wikipedia], Tech / #OnCampus, ''Forbes'' (1 March 2018)

* [[Facebook]]'s introduction of a new feature that uses [Wikipedia] to combat “[[fake news]]” [...] poses arguably the greatest test in years to the volunteer-run online encyclopedia, constituting a massive threat to the internet's largest and ostensibly most trusted source of free knowledge. ... It also highlights the risks posed by Facebook's efforts to seemingly outsource its problems to the online encyclopedia. Indeed, Wikipedia has struggled to defend its standards in the face of its new role as the internet's “good cop.” As more and more tech giants like Facebook and YouTube make use of its content, a new influx of users has flooded the website [–] not all of them well intentioned.
** Omer Benjakob in [https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-breitbart-declares-war-on-wikipedia-in-facebook-s-fight-against-fake-news-1.5991915 Breitbart Declares War on Wikipedia as Encyclopedia Gets Drafted Into Facebook's 'Fake News' Battle], ''Haaretz'' (11 April 2018)

* I'd argue that Wikipedia's biggest asset is its willingness as a community and website to “delete.” It's that simple. If there's bad information, or info that's just useless, Wikipedia's regulatory system has the ability to discard it.
** Brian A. Feldman in [http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/why-wikipedia-works.html Why Wikipedia Works], select/all, ''New York Magazine'' (16 March 2018)

* Communities of so-called “amateur experts” linked together by shared interests are the bread and butter of Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia actively encourages editors to congregate in “projects” and “portals” covering hundreds of articles that all fall under a single broad topic. ... So while it's easy to lament the dangers of the Wikipedia gun lobby, it is important to remember that groups with competing worldviews are what fuel the crowdsourced encyclopedia – where the question of what is true is always secondary to the question of what the community of different users can agree on as being true.
** Omer Benjakob in [https://www.haaretz.com/life/how-firearm-enthusiasts-control-what-you-read-about-guns-on-wikipedia-1.5910470 Gun Enthusiasts Are Waging a War of Attrition on Wikipedia, and It Looks Like They're Winning], ''Haaretz'' (18 March 2018)

* With its nationalist sentiments, factual mistakes, lack of academic references and omitted facts about World War II history, Croatian Wikipedia is not a reliable source, analysts have told BIRN.
** Sven Milekic in [http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/how-croatian-wikipedia-made-a-concentration-camp-disappear-03-23-2018 How Croatian Wikipedia Made a Concentration Camp Disappear], ''BIRN'' (23 March 2018)

* When [people] get their information not from us – but [...] through something like Siri or [...] Alexa – that opportunity to either contribute back as an editor is broken, and that opportunity to contribute, to donate is also broken.
** Lisa Gruwell (Wikimedia's Chief Revenue Officer) in [https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/24/are-corporations-that-use-wikipedia-giving-back/ Are corporations that use wikipedia giving back?], Brian Heater, ''techcrunch.com'' (24 March 2018)

* The [[w:Los Angeles Times|Los Angeles Times]], the [[w:Wall Street Journal|Wall Street Journal]], and the [[w:The New Yorker|New Yorker]] reported incorrectly last month that [[w:Mike Pompeo|Pompeo]] was an Army officer who served in the [[w:Gulf War|1991 Gulf War]]. ... The situation shows how much major media outlets have come to rely on Wikipedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia run by the [[w:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]], a non-profit that employs less than 300 people.
** Heather Timmons & David Yanofsky in [https://qz.com/1258418/mike-pompeos-gulf-war-service-lie-started-on-wikipedia/ A lie about Mike Pompeo's Gulf War service started with an anonymous Wikipedia edit], ''Quartz'' (21 April 2018)

* On January 2, 2018, MBH participant published statistics on peak views of [[Russian]] Wikipedia articles in 2017.

:Each article of the free encyclopedia is visited almost evenly from day to day. Smooth fluctuations are associated with the total traffic to Wikipedia, as well as various global cycles, for example, calendar - annual, weekly and others.
:* [https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Пики_Русской_Википедии_в_2017_году Пики Русской Википедии в 2017 году] (4 января 2018 года)

* ... Wikipedia is just ''one'' type of online community, which appeals to a fairly narrow (geeky, combative male) demographic. And, importantly, it ''doesn't'' appeal to many other demographics. ... if, as inevitably happens in such a place, some people get impatient and upset at [the] unfair treatment, they must tolerate the passive-aggressive condescension of the basement-dwellers who inform them, apparently with no awareness of the ironies involved, that courtesy is an absolute requirement.
** [[Larry Sanger]] in [https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/04/21/wikipedia-co-founders-8000-word-essay-build-better-wikipedia/ Wikipedia co-founder's 8,000-word essay on how to build a better Wikipedia], ''TNW'' (23 April 2018)

* In this era where we've seen the rise of these [[fake news]] websites and so forth, Wikipedia has had almost no problems with this at all. Simply because our community is quite – you know, it's their hobby to debate about the quality of sources, and it's very difficult to fool the Wikipedia community with this.
** [[Jimmy Wales]] in [http://kacu.org/post/wikipedia-founder-says-internet-users-are-adrift-fake-news-era Wikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The 'Fake News' Era], by [[w:Ari Shapiro|Ari Shapiro]], ''kacu.org'' (28 April 2018)

* [Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee], which typically decides matters of user behavior, not content, doesn't lean left or right. Occasionally you could say there are people who are stricter or more lenient in terms of the spirit of the law or letter of the law.
** [[w:Ira Brad Matetsky|Ira Matetsky]], quoted and paraphrased in [https://news.law.fordham.edu/blog/2018/05/07/the-15-people-who-keep-wikipedias-editors-from-killing-each-other/ The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors from Killing Each Other], ''Fordham Law News'' (7 May 2018)

* ... independent bloggers Markus Fiedler and Dirk Pohlmann have found [that Wikipedia's] 'freely editable' model definitely doesn't mean an absence of censorship and biased political activism. ...the online encyclopedia is home to a major edit war where corrections are constantly added, information removed, and value judgements made to fit a specific narrative. ... [An inner circle of manipulators] are referees and players combined into one.
** Fiedler and Pohlmann quoted in [https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201806011065003782-investigation-finds-roots-of-wikipedia-bias/ Like Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: How Public Opinion is Manipulated on Wikipedia], ''sputniknews.com'' (1 June 2018)

* Deeply inappropriate for the European Commission to be lobbying publicly *and* misleading the public in this way. ... the Wikipedia community is not so narrow minded as to let the rest of the Internet suffer just because we are big enough that they try to throw us a bone. Justice matters.
** [[Jimmy Wales]] commenting in two [https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1014131021137285127 tweets] on a tweet from the [[w:European Commission|European Commission]] and the impending EU voting on Articles 11 and 13 of the [[w:Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market|EU directive on copyright]], as quoted in [https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/04/wikipedia-goes-dark-in-spanish-italian-ahead-of-key-eu-vote-on-copyright/ Wikipedia goes dark in Spanish, Italian ahead of key EU vote on copyright] by Natasha Lomas, ''techcrunch.com'' (4 July 2018)

* ...Wikipedia has forced academics to re-examine how they validate sources. We should have been doing that all along. We should have been approaching an ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' article with a certain level of distrust and questioning: What are the biases of people writing this? What are they leaving out? What communities are not included in this conversation?
** Royce Kimmons, assistant professor at Brigham Young University, as quoted by Megan Zahneis in [https://www.chronicle.com/article/Some-Colleges-Cautiously/243968 Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia], ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' (19 July 2018)

* [Wikipedia's] worst failing, much like [[w:Today (BBC Radio 4)|BBC Radio 4's Today]] programme, is to portray subjects that are racked with unresolved controversy as if they were settled. ... and while I was inside it, it was a tiny, infuriating nightmare of [[totalitarianism]]. One day soon, I suspect this particular dream is all too likely to come true in the solid world.
** [[w:Peter Hitchens|Peter Hitchens]] in [https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/war-of-words-my-battle-to-correct-wikipedia/ War of words: my battle to correct Wikipedia], ''The Spectator'' (18 August 2018)

* [YouTube,] a megacorporation with billions of dollars and thousands of brilliant employees is relying on a volunteer-run platform anyone can edit to fact-check information? It is odd. But it's also a validation of Wikipedia's mission and a reminder of its importance.
** [[w:John Naughton|John Naughton]] in [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/02/in-hysterical-world-wikipedia-ray-of-light-truth In a hysterical world, Wikipedia is a ray of light – and that's the truth], ''The Guardian'' (2 September 2018)

* [Wikipedia] is therefore a reflection of the world's biases more than it is a cause of them. ... If journalists, book publishers, scientific researchers, curators, academics, grant-makers and prize-awarding committees don't recognize the work of women, Wikipedia's editors have little foundation on which to build. ... We may not be able to change how society values women, but we can change how women are seen, and ensure that they are seen to begin with.
** [[w:Katherine Maher|Katherine Maher]] in [https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-maher-wikipedia-gender-bias-20181018-story.html Wikipedia mirrors the world's gender biases, it doesn't cause them], ''Los Angeles Times'' (18 October 2018)

* ... debilitating factors – such as excessive bickering and poorly worded arguments – have led to about one-third of RfCs [i.e. Request for Comment deliberation processes] going unresolved. ... the experience of participants and the length of a discussion are strongly predictive of the timely closure of an RfC.
** Rob Matheson paraphrasing Amy X. Zhang and co-authors in [http://news.mit.edu/2018/wikipedia-disputes-unresolved-study-1106 Why some Wikipedia disputes go unresolved], ''MIT News Office'' (6 November 2018)

* Medical images and articles found on Wikipedia may help patients better understand their radiology reports, ... And despite both internal and external metrics concluding Wikipedia's health information to be variable in quality, but continually improving, the authors believe the website's detailed information could pair well with the lay-definitions housed within the PORTER [i.e. Patient-Oriented Radiology Reporter] glossary.
** Matt O'Connor paraphrasing T. Martin-Carreras and C. E. Kahn Jr. in [https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/imaging-informatics/wikipedia-improve-radiology-resources-patients Wikipedia articles, images may improve radiology resources for patients], ''HealthImaging'' (7 November 2018)

* The magnitude of [Wikipedia's visitor] numbers piqued the interest of Matthew Kock, website manager of the prestigious British Museum in London. "I looked at how many [[w:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]] page views there were on Wikipedia... That is perhaps our iconic object, and five times as many people go to the Wikipedia article [...] as to ours." This realization inspired him to propose a novel idea to British Museum administrators – invite a Wikipedia contributor into the institution as the first ever "Wikipedian in Residence" to serve as a liaison within the Museum. Despite his fears about proposing collaboration with unknown and uncredentialled Wikipedia volunteers, [...] he met with enthusiastic interest from numerous departments at the museum.
** [[w:Andrew Lih|Andrew Lih]] in Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge, p. 9, ''American Library Association'' (29 November 2018)

====2019====
* Science Wikipedia pages aren't just for non-experts. Physicists – researchers, professors, and students – use Wikipedia daily. When I need the transition temperature for a Bose-Einstein condensate (prefactor and all), or when I want to learn about the details of an unfamiliar quantum algorithm, Wikipedia is my first stop. ... Despite [this], it is rare for professional physicists to contribute, in part because there are few, if any, professional incentives to do so. ... only a small fraction [of them] have edited even a single Wikipedia page.
** Kaden Hazzard in [https://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2019/01/04/onetopicpages/ Peer-reviewed physics for Wikipedia: PLOS ONE Topic Pages], ''Plos Blogs'' (4 January 2019)

* Many professors are ditching the traditional writing assignment and instead asking students to expand or create a Wikipedia article on the topic.
** Stephen Harrison in [https://www.afr.com/news/economy/how-wikipedia-became-the-responsible-adult-of-the-internet-20190115-h1a2ub How Wikipedia became the responsible adult of the internet], ''Financial Review'' (15 January 2019)

*Like other social media platforms, Wikipedia has evolved into an echo chamber where the user is presented with only one type of content instead of being shown a balanced narrative. This disinformation is powerful since the articles are written in an academic style and users do not see other sources that disagree with the article.... Some editors of Wikipedia are failed academics with demonic energy who wish to conquer anonymously what they were unable to do in their normal careers. And spending much of their working life editing Wikipedia articles and by the use of multiple anonymous handles they have obtained administrative status which entitles them to block opposing views. The anonymous persona of the editors and the low stakes have made Wikipedia politics much more vicious than real politics.
**Subhash Kak, April 9, 2019 [https://medium.com/@subhashkak1/wikipedia-or-trashpedia-4198e2c78e59 Wikipedia or Trashpedia?]

* Wikipedia is not going anywhere. It's definitely part of everyone's life. But the question of accuracy is one of the most important aspects of it. ... Our purpose here is not to evaluate whether Wikipedia is good or bad. ... It's not so much about warning people about what Wikipedia is. It's about showing what it is. ... Librarians are interested in trying to broaden our community's education with information in general, be it digital or otherwise.
** Lorie Kloda, associate university librarian at [[w:Concordia University|Concordia University]], quoted in [https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/brownstein-wikipedia-to-get-respect-at-concordia-university Brownstein: Wikipedia to get respect at Concordia University] by Bill Brownstein, ''Montreal Gazette'' (16 January 2019)

* Wikipedia's extreme form of democracy sounds even stranger in 2019 than it must have sounded in 2001.
** Caille Millner in [https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Wikipedia-hasn-t-lost-sight-of-its-mission-18-13543511.php Wikipedia hasn't lost sight of its mission 18 years after launch], ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (18 January 2019)

* Wikipedia has become an ideological battleground in recent years, with zealots from both left and right using it to mock and smear their enemies.
** Jasper Hamill in [https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/22/sick-vandals-target-martin-luther-king-wikipedia-page-mlk-day-8372536/ Sick vandals mark Martin Luther King Day with pornographic attack on Wikipedia page celebrating the great man], ''Metro'' (22 January 2019)

* Supporting Wikipedia is [...] a shrewd business decision that will likely benefit Google for years to come.
** Louise Matsakis in [https://www.wired.com/story/google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages/ Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools], ''Wired: Business'' (22 January 2019)

* Whereas a true scientist, confronted with a glimpse of the unknown, would pursue the inexplicable, the Skeptics close their eyes and ears to anything that challenges their Newtonian world-view. Worse, armed with the formidable propaganda tool that is Wikipedia, they force their lack of curiosity on others, closing the lines of inquiry for millions who might otherwise be interested in pursuing some healing modality not fully explained by scientific orthodoxy.
** [[w:Gary Null|Gary Null]] and Helen Buyniski in [http://prn.fm/wikipedia-supporting-dark-side-medicine/ Wikipedia: Supporting the dark side of medicine?], ''PRN.FM'' (February 2019)

* Wikipedians in residence (WIR) have been around since at least 2010, with the first one hired by the British Museum in the U.K. Since then, other museums as well as universities, archives, libraries, art galleries and health organizations, have followed suit with a total of 165 WIRs hired worldwide. According to the Wikimedia Foundation [...], right now 65 WIRs are actively working — and registered — with the foundation.
** Sharon Aschaiek in [https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/advancing-academia-with-wikipedia/ Advancing academia with Wikipedia], ''University Affairs'' (26 February 2019)

* Indeed, Fram seemed like the perfect test case for a new kind of enforcement from the foundation – a prolific user whose bad behavior warranted a severe sanction short of a lifetime ban. But as is the case in so many enforcement decisions on social platforms, the ban created more questions than it answered.
** Joseph Bernstein in [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikipedia-ban-editor-culture-war The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia], ''BuzzFeedNews'' (27 June 2019)

* The real cause of the Fram flare-up wasn't the sudden overreach by the foundation, but the community's own laissez-faire attitude about toxic users. ... The community is currently blaming the foundation for their own mess, in my opinion, which was caused by our abject failure to develop procedures to enforce civility without Foundation intervention.
** User:BU Rob13, as quoted by Joseph Bernstein in [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikipedia-ban-editor-culture-war The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia], ''BuzzFeedNews'' (27 June 2019)

* It’s been tradition that our communities are by and large self-governing, except for issues around child protection, threats of suicide, threats of violence, and legal matters.
** A ''veteran Wikipedia editor'' according to [https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/wikipedia-fram-banning-editor-controversy.html Wikipedia’s “Constitutional Crisis” Pits Community Against Foundation] in [[Slate Magazine]] posted July 02, 2019

* The Commissioner sees the ongoing blocking of access to Wikipedia as forming part of a broader pattern of undue restrictions on the right to receive and impart information on the internet, and more generally as an illustration of the disproportionately heavy-handed approach currently prevailing in Turkey to any content or information the Turkish authorities consider offensive. ... Commissioner Mijatovic concludes that the way Turkish administrative authorities and courts routinely have recourse to internet blocking is unacceptable in a democratic society and not compatible with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights which protects freedom of expression. ... The systemic nature of the problem requires far-reaching measures, including the complete overhaul of the relevant Turkish legislation.
** [[w:Dunja Mijatovic|Dunja Mijatovic]], the Council of Europe [[w:Commissioner for Human Rights|Commissioner for Human Rights]], in a submission to the [[w:European Court of Human Rights|European Court of Human Rights]], as quoted in [https://www.turkishminute.com/2019/11/26/human-rights-commissioner-says-turkeys-blocking-of-wikipedia-a-violation-of-freedom-of-expression/ Human rights commissioner says Turkey's blocking of Wikipedia a violation of freedom of expression], ''Turkish Minute'' (26 November 2019)

=== 2020s===
====2020====
[[File:Elon Musk Royal Society.jpg|thumb|[[History]] is [[written]] by the [[victor]], except on wikipedia]]
* [Wikipedia comprises millions of articles that are in constant need of edits to reflect new information. That can involve article expansions, major rewrites, or more routine modifications such as updating numbers, dates, names, and locations. Currently, humans across the globe volunteer their time to make these edits.] It would be beneficial to automatically modify exact portions of the articles, with little to no human intervention.
** Darsh Shah, PhD student at CSAIL, as quoted by Rob Matheson in [http://news.mit.edu/2020/automated-rewrite-wikipedia-articles-0212 Automated system can rewrite outdated sentences in Wikipedia articles], ''MIT News Office'' (12 February 2020)

* History is written by the victors … except on Wikipedia haha
** [[Elon Musk]] [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1294921196564180994] (Aug 16, 2020)

* [I have not seen a single practical use-case to convince me to integrate cryptocurrencies or blockchain into the platform. To reward content creators and editors with digital assets] is a really bad idea. ... By integrating cryptocurrencies, Wikipedia would be taking a step back by making it easier for people and companies to pay for the content they want on the platform. Creating a mechanism where you effectively authenticate that type of behavior ... isn't going to help with the quality of Wikipedia at all. ... To say to them, you're going to have to pay or put money at risk in order to edit Wikipedia is completely insane. 
** [[Jimmy Wales]] on 21 February 2020 while speaking at the CoinGeek Conference in London, as quoted in [https://coinrocco.com/en/blog/wikipedia-co-founder-critiques-crypto-integration-insights-from-jimmy-wales Wikipedia Co-Founder Says Crypto Integration Would Be ‘Completely Insane'], ''coinrocco.com'' (21 February 2020)

*If it is a mistake to keep comparing Wikipedia to Britannica, it is another kind of category error to judge Wikipedia against its peers in the internet's top 10. '''Wikipedia ought to serve as a model for many forms of social endeavor online, but its lessons do not translate readily into the commercial sphere.''' It is a noncommercial enterprise, with no investors or shareholders to appease, no financial imperative to grow or die, and no standing to maintain in the arms race to amass data and attain AI supremacy at all costs. At Jimmy Wales' wedding, one of the maids of honor toasted him as the sole internet mogul who wasn't a billionaire.
**[https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/ Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet, By Richard Cooke, ''Wired,''] (17 Feb 2020)]

*The site has helped its fellow tech behemoths, though, especially with the march of [[AI]]. Wikipedia's liberal content licenses and vast information hoard have allowed developers to train neural networks much more quickly, cheaply, and widely than proprietary data sets ever could have. When you ask Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa a question, Wikipedia helps provide the answer. When you Google a famous person or place, Wikipedia often informs the “knowledge panel” that appears alongside your search results. These tools were made possible by a project called Wikidata, the next ambitious step toward realizing the age-old dream of creating a “World Brain.” ... As platforms like Google and Alexa work to provide instant answers to random questions, Wikidata will be one of the key architectures that link the world's information together...
**[https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/ Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet, By Richard Cooke, ''Wired,''] (17 Feb 2020)]

*Why do Wikipedians perform these millions of hours of labor, some expended on a giant straw goat, without pay? Because they don't experience them as labor. “It's a misconception people work for free,” Wales told the site Hacker Noon in 2018. “They have fun for free.” A 2011 survey of more than 5,000 Wikipedia contributors listed “It's fun” as one of the primary reasons they edited the site.
**[https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/ Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet, By Richard Cooke, ''Wired,'' (17 Feb 2020)]

* I can't tell you what the cause of the bias on Wikipedia is, I can only tell you that it's really obvious now. It used to be quite obvious, like even 10 years ago it was already pretty obvious 10 years ago. Now it's just embarrassing. 
**Larry Sanger. (co-founder, Wikipedia) Sep 2, 2020. Larry Sanger, founder of Wikipedia, Interview with Nupur J. Sharma. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwcPEACzUfQ&feature=youtu.be Larry Sanger, founder of Wikipedia, talks to Nupur Sharma]

*There is a massive irony in the fact that Wikipedia is so extremely biased: it was started by someone who cares unusually deeply about neutrality (me), who developed and defended its neutrality policy at great length. Man makes plans, and God laughs.
**Larry Sanger. (co-founder, Wikipedia) Tweet on Twitter, on Sep 3, 2020. [https://twitter.com/lsanger/status/1301619256778526721]

==== 2021 ====
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* Making [[social media]] liable would mean [[Twitter]], [[Facebook]], even Wikipedia and [[Yelp]] couldn't exist as we know them
** [[Scott Pelley]] on [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/section-230-internet-60-minutes-2021-01-03/ Why victims of internet lies want Section 230 repealed] broadcast January 3, 2020

*Even the common perception that Wikipedia provides a level playing field on which humanity can freely share all its knowledge is a pretense. The reality is that while all such digital structures behave like free and unrestricted systems, they are in fact controlled by gamification algorithms at the hands of those who own and operate them. Very few people grasp the profound deception of the system.
** [[Malhotra, R.]] (2021). Artificial intelligence and the future of power: 5 battlegrounds. New Delhi : Rupa, 2021.

*[the infiltration had threatened the] very foundations of Wikipedia.
*This case is unprecedented in scope
*[the foundation had been investigating the infiltration of Chinese-language Wikipedia for nearly a year. But this summer] credible threats [to volunteers' safety had] led us to prioritise rapid response
** [[Maggie Dennis]], [[Wikimedia Foundation]] vice-president '''[https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58559412 Wikipedia blames pro-China infiltration for bans]''' (16 September 2021)

==== 2022 ====
[[File:2015-03-27._%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B0%D0%BC_088.jpg|thumb|Editing Wikipedia from a [[w:Bomb shelter|bomb shelter]] is [[difficult]]. To be [[honest]], covering the [[invasion]] is not our main [[priority]] now. People are mainly trying to put in place their [[w:PlanB|plan B]], either by [[evacuating]] to a [[safer]] place, by joining the [[army]], or by joining [[volunteer]] organizations. ~ Mykola Kozlenko]]
* Like many other knowledge spaces, Wikipedia has a problem: it lacks visual representation, especially when it comes to notable figures who belong to the global majority, including Black, Indigenous, and people of color. To change that, we are starting a new initiative in collaboration with Behance and AfroCROWD: Discover #WikiUnseen
** Wikimedia Foundation via [[Youtube]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAJcXj8fLXkWiki Unseen | See their faces. Know their stories] (Feb 10, 2022)

* Once [[:w:news media|outlets]] like the ''[[:w:HuffPost|Huffington Post]]'', ''[[:w:The Daily Beast|Daily Beast]]'', ''[[:w:The Daily Beast|Vox]]'' etcetera publish an article making baseless claims about a person, then the Wikipedia editors update that person's page to paint them in a false light and save the salacious [[:wikt:hit piece|hit piece]]s as the source in the footnotes cementing the allegations in the target's Wikipedia page.
** [[w:Mark Dice|Mark Dice]] in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqEbZGIimHA&list=TLPQMTQwMjIwMjJY8WSHG6XcQg Wikipedia: The Internet's Largest Source of Misinformation], ''YouTube'', 11 February 2022

* “[[Writing]] on Wikipedia always comes with a lot of [[responsibility]],” Breslow said in an email. “Wikipedia is the major collective record of [[humanity]]’s [[knowledge]], and its articles are read by a staggering number of [[readers]]. They influence what people [[believe]] and how they [[live]] their lives, so it’s essential we make them as [[reliable]], [[neutral]], and [[comprehensive]] as possible.”
** Samuel Breslow as quoted by Stephen Harrison, [https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/wikipedia-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-edits-kyiv-kiev.html “How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia”], ''Slate'', (March 01, 2022)

* “Editing Wikipedia from a [[w:Bomb shelter|bomb shelter]] is [[difficult]],” said Mykola Kozlenko, the vice president of the Wikimedia [[Ukraine]] user group. “To be [[honest]], covering the [[invasion]] is not our main [[priority]] now. People are mainly trying to put in place their [[w:PlanB|plan B]], either by [[evacuating]] to a [[safer]] place, by joining the [[army]], or by joining [[volunteer]] organizations.”
** Mykola Kozlenko as quoted by Stephen Harrison, [https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/wikipedia-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-edits-kyiv-kiev.html “How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia”], ''Slate'', (March 01, 2022)

==== 2023 ====
* Having that protection there is what has allowed Wikipedia to be written by thousands of volunteer editors around the world over the last 22 years. So without the protections of [[w:Section 230|Section 230]], that becomes a much more difficult scenario for us.
** Wikimedia Foundation’s Senior Legal Manager Leighanna Mixter [https://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-section-230-scotus-encyclopedia-1850085090 Wikipedia Worries Its Volunteer Editors Could Be Liable to Lawsuits Without Section 230] (PublishedYesterday) By Kyle Barr Comments (8)
*** More at: [[Reynaldo Gonzalez v. Google]]

* The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] has declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia [[internet]] [[encyclopedia]] to resurrect its [[lawsuit]] against the [[National Security Agency]] challenging mass [[online]] [[surveillance]].
** [[w:Slashdot|Slashdot]] [https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/22/1542248/supreme-court-snubs-wikipedia-bid-to-challenge-nsa-surveillance "Supreme Court Snubs Wikipedia Bid To Challenge NSA Surveillance"] (February 22, 2023)

===== “Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth” (Published July 18, 2023, updated July 21, 2023) =====
 Jon Gertner, [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html “Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth”], ''The New York Times'', (Published July 18, 2023, updated July 21, 2023) 
[[File:Le_avventure_di_Pinocchio-pag020.jpg|thumb|Without Wikipedia, generative A.I. wouldn’t exist. ~ Nicholas Vincent]]
[[File:Searchlights_pierce_the_night_sky_during_an_air-raid_practice_on_Gibraltar,_20_November_1942._GM1852.jpg|thumb|For a popular article that might have thousands of contributors, “Wikipedia is literally the most accurate form of information ever created by humans,” [[w:Amy S. Bruckman|Amy Bruckman]], a professor at the [[w:Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Institute of Technology]], told me. But Wikipedia’s short articles can sometimes be hit or miss. “They could be total garbage,” says Bruckman, who is the author of the recent book “Should You Believe Wikipedia?”]]
[[File:USMC-100629-M-3215R-002.jpg|thumb|Jesse Dodge, a computer scientist at the [[w:Allen Institute for AI|Allen Institute for AI]] in [[Seattle]], told me that Wikipedia might now make up between 3 and 5 percent of the scraped data an L.L.M. uses for its training. “Wikipedia going forward will forever be super valuable,” Dodge points out, “because it’s one of the largest well-curated data sets out there.” There is generally a link, he adds, between the quality of data a model trains on and the accuracy and coherence of its responses.]]
[[File:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester.png|thumb|Reagle told me that the recent debates over A.I. recall for him the early days of Wikipedia, when its quality was unflatteringly compared to that of other encyclopedias. “It served as a proxy in this larger culture war about information and knowledge and quality and authority and legitimacy. So I take a sort of similar model to thinking about ChatGPT, which is going to improve. Just like Wikipedia is not perfect, it’s not perfect — it’s never going to be perfect — but what is the relative value given the other information that’s out there?”]]
[[File:Cc.logo.circle.svg|thumb|While Wikipedia’s licensing policy lets anyone tap its knowledge and text — to “reuse and remix” it however they might like — it does have several conditions. These include the requirements that users must “share alike,” meaning any information they do something with must subsequently be made readily available, and that users must give credit and attribution to Wikipedia contributors. Mixing Wikipedia’s corpus into a chatbot model that gives answers to queries without explaining the sourcing may thus violate Wikipedia’s terms of use, two people in the open-source software community told me.]]
* The new [[A.I.]] [[w:Chatbot|chatbots]] have typically swallowed Wikipedia’s corpus, too. Embedded deep within their responses to queries is Wikipedia [[data]] and Wikipedia [[text]], [[knowledge]] that has been compiled over years of [[painstaking]] [[work]] by [[human]] contributors. While estimates of its influence can vary, Wikipedia is probably the most important single source in the training of A.I. models. “Without Wikipedia, generative A.I. wouldn’t exist,” says Nicholas Vincent, who will be joining the faculty of [[w:Simon Fraser University|Simon Fraser University]] in [[British Columbia]] this month and who has studied how Wikipedia helps support Google searches and other information businesses. Yet as bots like [[w:ChatGPT|ChatGPT]] become increasingly popular and sophisticated, Vincent and some of his colleagues wonder what will happen if Wikipedia, out-flanked by A.I. that has cannibalized it, suffers from disuse and dereliction. In such a future, a “Death of Wikipedia” outcome is perhaps not so far-fetched. A computer intelligence — it might not need to be as good as Wikipedia, merely good enough — is plugged into the web and seizes the opportunity to summarize source materials and news articles instantly, the way humans now do with argument and deliberation.
* How Wikipedia uses bots and how bots use Wikipedia are extremely different, however. For years it has been clear that fledgling A.I. systems were being trained on the site’s articles, as part of the process whereby engineers “scrape” the web to create enormous data sets for that purpose. In the early days of these models, about a decade ago, Wikipedia represented a large percentage of the scraped data used to train machines. The encyclopedia was crucial not only because it’s free and accessible, but also because it contains a mother lode of facts and so much of its material is consistently formatted. In more recent years, as so-called Large Language Models, or L.L.M.s, increased in size and functionality — these are the models that power chatbots like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard — they began to take in far larger amounts of information. In some cases, their meals added up to well over a trillion words. The sources included not just Wikipedia but also Google’s patent database, government documents, Reddit’s Q. and A. corpus, books from online libraries and vast numbers of news articles on the web. But while Wikipedia’s contribution in terms of overall volume is shrinking — and even as tech companies have stopped disclosing what data sets go into their A.I. models — it remains one of the largest single sources for L.L.M.s. Jesse Dodge, a computer scientist at the [[w:Allen Institute for AI|Allen Institute for AI]] in [[Seattle]], told me that Wikipedia might now make up between 3 and 5 percent of the scraped data an L.L.M. uses for its training. “Wikipedia going forward will forever be super valuable,” Dodge points out, “because it’s one of the largest well-curated data sets out there.” There is generally a link, he adds, between the quality of data a model trains on and the accuracy and coherence of its responses.
* Wikipedia’s fundamental goal is to spread knowledge as broadly and freely as possible, by whatever means. About 10 years ago, when site administrators focused on how Google was using Wikipedia, they were in a situation that presaged the advent of A.I. chatbots. Google’s search engine was able, at the top of its query results, to present Wikipedians’ work to users all over the world, giving the encyclopedia far greater reach than before — an apparent virtue. In 2017, three academic computer scientists, Connor McMahon, Isaac Johnson and Brent Hecht, conducted an experiment that tested how random users would react if just part of the contributions made to Google’s search results by Wikipedia were removed. The academics perceived an “extensive interdependence”: Wikipedia makes Google a “significantly better” search engine for many queries, and Wikipedia, in turn, gets most of its traffic from Google.
* [[w:Aaron Halfaker|Aaron Halfaker]], who led the machine-learning research team at the Wikimedia Foundation for several years (and who now works for [[Microsoft]]), told me that search-engine summaries at least offer users links and [[citations]] and a way to click back to Wikipedia. The responses from large language models can resemble an information smoothie that goes down easy but contains mysterious ingredients. “The ability to generate an answer has fundamentally shifted,” he says, noting that in a ChatGPT answer there is “literally no citation, and no grounding in the literature as to where that information came from.” He contrasts it with the Google or Bing search engines: “This is different. This is way more powerful than what we had before.”
* Wikipedia’s most devoted supporters will readily acknowledge that it has plenty of flaws. The Wikimedia Foundation estimates that its English-language site has about 40,000 active editors — meaning they make at least five edits a month to the encyclopedia. According to recent data from the Wikimedia Foundation, about 80 percent of that cohort is male, and about 75 percent of those from the United States are white, which has led to some gender and racial gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage. And lingering doubts about reliability remain. For a popular article that might have thousands of contributors, “Wikipedia is literally the most accurate form of information ever created by humans,” [[w:Amy S. Bruckman|Amy Bruckman]], a professor at the [[w:Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Institute of Technology]], told me. But Wikipedia’s short articles can sometimes be hit or miss. “They could be total garbage,” says Bruckman, who is the author of the recent book “Should You Believe Wikipedia?”
* Within the Wikipedia community, there is a cautious sense of hope that A.I., if managed right, will help the organization improve rather than crash. Selena Deckelmann, the chief tech officer, expresses that perspective most optimistically. “What we’ve proven over 22 years now is: We have a volunteer model that is sustainable,” she told me. “I would say there are some threats to it. Is it an insurmountable threat? I don’t think so.” The longtime Wikipedia editor who wrote “Death of Wikipedia” told me that he feels there is a case to be made for a good outcome in the coming years, even if the longer term seems far less certain. The Wikimedia plug-in is the first significant move toward protecting its future. Projects are also in the works to use recent advances in A.I. internally. Albon says that he and his colleagues are in the process of adapting A.I. models that are “off the shelf” — essentially models that have been made available by researchers for anyone to freely customize — so that Wikipedia’s editors can use them for their work. One focus is to have A.I. models aid new volunteers, say, with step-by-step chatbot instructions as they begin working on new articles, a process that involves many rules and protocols and often alienates Wikipedia’s newcomers. Leila Zia, the head of research at the Wikimedia Foundation, told me that her team was likewise working on tools that could help the encyclopedia by predicting, for example, whether a new article or edit would be overruled. Or, she said, perhaps a contributor “doesn’t know how to use citations” — in that case, another tool would indicate that. I asked whether it could help Wikipedia entries maintain a neutral point of view as they were writing. “Absolutely,” she says.
* Three years ago, in anticipation of Wikipedia’s 20th anniversary, [[w:Joseph M. Reagle Jr.|Joseph Reagle]], a professor at [[w:Northeastern University|Northeastern University]], wrote a historical essay exploring how the death of the site had been predicted again and again. Wikipedia has nevertheless found ways to adapt and endure. Reagle told me that the recent debates over A.I. recall for him the early days of Wikipedia, when its quality was unflatteringly compared to that of other encyclopedias. “It served as a proxy in this larger culture war about information and knowledge and quality and authority and legitimacy. So I take a sort of similar model to thinking about ChatGPT, which is going to improve. Just like Wikipedia is not perfect, it’s not perfect — it’s never going to be perfect — but what is the relative value given the other information that’s out there?”
* While Wikipedia’s licensing policy lets anyone tap its knowledge and text — to “reuse and remix” it however they might like — it does have several conditions. These include the requirements that users must “share alike,” meaning any information they do something with must subsequently be made readily available, and that users must give credit and attribution to Wikipedia contributors. Mixing Wikipedia’s corpus into a chatbot model that gives answers to queries without explaining the sourcing may thus violate Wikipedia’s terms of use, two people in the open-source software community told me. It is now a topic of conversation inside the Wikimedia community whether some legal recourse exists. Data providers may be able to exert other kinds of leverage as well. In April, Reddit announced that it would not make its corpus available for scraping by big tech companies without compensation. It seems very unlikely that the Wikimedia Foundation could issue the same dictum and close its sites off — an action that Nicholas Vincent has called a “data strike” — because its terms of service are more open. But the foundation could make arguments in the name of fairness and appeal to firms to pay for its A.P.I., just as Google does now. It could further insist that chatbots give Wikipedia prominent attribution and offer citations in their answers, something Selena Deckelmann told me the foundation is discussing with various firms. Vincent says that A.I. companies would be foolhardy to try to build a global encyclopedia themselves, with individual contractors. Instead, he told me, “there might be an intermediary stage here where Wikipedia says, ‘Hey, look at how important we’ve been to you.’”
* Without ingesting the growing millions of Wikipedia pages or vacuuming up Reddit arguments about plot twists in “[[w:The Bear (TV series)|The Bear]],” new L.L.M.s can’t be adequately trained. In fact, no one I spoke with in the tech community seemed to know if it would even be possible to build a good A.I. model without Wikipedia.

==== 2024 ====
* We love the amount of support — from the trainings to the course guides to the assistance available via email. With the use of Wikipedia, students are thinking critically about the knowledge gaps and inequities found in public information sources and resources — and they work to improve these conditions with each assignment. It's great that students get to see the impact of their work so quickly too, as the number of page views grows far faster than the number of scholars and colleagues who may otherwise read their published work.
** Terri Hlava as quoted by Hailey Torborg, [https://news.asu.edu/20240409-law-journalism-and-politics-asu-faculty-contributing-improvement-wikipedia “ASU faculty contributing to improvement of Wikipedia”], ''Arizona State University'', (April 09, 2024)

* Wikipedia’s articles about history and religion have real-life impact on the world. What people read on Wikipedia shapes the opinions they form about politics, social justice and so forth. Therefore we need to make sure Wikipedia gets it right, and this project is going to help that goal.
** Shira Klein as quoted by Hailey Torborg, [https://news.asu.edu/20240409-law-journalism-and-politics-asu-faculty-contributing-improvement-wikipedia “ASU faculty contributing to improvement of Wikipedia”], ''Arizona State University'', (April 09, 2024)

* If you know how to navigate the site, Wikipedia is a uniquely transparent knowledge-sharing platform. So students get to see how the articles are developed in ways that are typically black-boxed in academia’s peer-review process or in what happens in the office of news media organizations. This makes it a great learning opportunity for identifying how bias can shape Wikipedia content, and for practicing how to intervene in those processes.
** Tracy Perkins as quoted by Hailey Torborg, [https://news.asu.edu/20240409-law-journalism-and-politics-asu-faculty-contributing-improvement-wikipedia “ASU faculty contributing to improvement of Wikipedia”], ''Arizona State University'', (April 09, 2024)

== See also ==
* [[Bomis]]
* [[Citizendium]]
* [[MediaWiki]]
* [[Gender bias on Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikiquote:Wiki-sisters]]
* [[Wikiquote]]
* [[Wikidata]]
* [[Wikimedia]]
* [[Wikiquote]]
* [[Wikisource]]
* [[Wiktionary]]

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Paul Kruger

2024-09-18T17:46:41Z

JMK: Boer War

[[File:Kruger old age.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Kruger]]

'''[[w:Paul Kruger|Paul Kruger]]''' (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century [[South Africa]], and President of the [[w:South African Republic|South African Republic]] (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.

==Quotes==
* ''Indien de Lieve Heer ons helpen en zegenen wilde, en wij ons land terug zouden krygen, dat den het volk elk jaar daar zouden komen feestvieren, juist by dezelfde steenhoop, en den Heer onze geloften komen betalen. En deze steenhoop is de eeuwige getuie daarvan.''
* If the Dear Lord would decide to help and bless us, and we would succeed in recovering our country, that the citizens would annually come to celebrate at this exact cairn, honouring our vow to the Lord. And this cairn serves as eternal witness to it.
**On 13 December 1880, when some 6 000 to 8 000 armed SAR citizens were adjured by Kruger to add stones to a cairn, marking their resolution to restore the Transvaal's independence. The Paardekraal Monument of 1890 still marks the spot, though the cairn was removed by British forces in 1901.

* ''Wy syn hier gekomen om feest te vieren en gy weet het. Ons en u doel is niets anders dan om meer en meer te doen verstaan den wil des Heeren en om ons te wyzen op zyne leiding, opdat de ouders aan hunne kinderen en kindskinderen tot in het verste nageslacht kunnen verhalen, wat God aan ons gedaan heeft.''
* We have arrived here to celebrate as you are well aware. Our aim, as your aim, is no less than to acquire a deeper understanding of the will of the Lord, and to apprise ourselves of his guidance, in order that the parents may convey to their children and grandchildren, and thence to our most distant descendants, what God has bestowed on us.
** At Paardekraal, current [[w:Krugersdorp|Krugersdorp]], addressing a crowd of SAR citizens who gathered to celebrate the Paardekraal resolution of a year before, besides the Day of the Vow (13 to 16 December 1881)

* ... I will bring a curse upon myself if our independence is violated by me, since God has guided us so visibly that the blindest heathen and most unbelieving creature had to admit that it was God's hand that gave us our independence.
** In 1893, as quoted by Du Plessis, J.S., President Kruger aan die woord: Verkiesingsmanifeste, intreeredes en toesprake van President S.J.P. Kruger, Sacum, Bloemfontein. See: [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269]

* Through the ''World'' I thank the people of the United States most sincerely for their sympathy. Last Monday the Republic gave Great Britain fourty-eight hours' notice within which to give the Republic an assurance that the present dispute would be settled by arbitration or other peaceful means, and that the troops would be removed from the borders. This expires at five to-day. The British Agent has been recalled. War is certain. The Republics are determined, if they must belong to Great Britain, that a price will have to be paid which will stagger humanity. They have, however, full faith. The sun of liberty will arise in South Africa as it arose in North America.
** Telegram to the ''New York World'' on 11 October 1899 at the start of the [[Second Boer War]], as quoted by Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''

* … they were willing to their ability, I testify, yes, beyond their ability.
** His appraisal of the Boer military leaders at the end of the [[Second Boer War]], May/June 1902, as quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 184. Van Schaik, Pretoria. See: [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269]

* ''Zoekt in het verledene al het goede en schoone, dat daarin te ontdekken valt. Vormt daarnaar uw ideaal en beproeft voor de toekomst dat ideaal te verwezenlijken.''
* Seek in the past all that is good and beautiful that can be discovered there. Form your ideal accordingly and try to realize that ideal for the future.
** As quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 239. Van Schaik, Pretoria.
* Or: Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.
** From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land (Donker, 1981), p. 164

* ''…van de minste geleerden hunner.''
* …of the least learned among them.
** Referring to himself, c. 1890, with respect to his attendance of political meetings. He only received three months of formal school training. As quoted by Piet J. Strauss in [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269 Paul Kruger – ’n ‘Dopper’ van sy tyd?], In die Skriflig | In Luce Verbi, 1 June 2020

==Quotes about Kruger==
* I express to you my sincere congratulations that you and your people, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, have succeeded, by your own energetic action against the armed bands which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, in restoring peace and in maintaining the independence of the country against attack from without.
** The [[w:Kruger telegram|Kruger telegram]] sent by [[w:Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II]] on 3 January 1896, immediately after the [[w:Jameson Raid|Jameson Raid]] was thwarted, as quoted by J van der Poel in ''The Jameson Raid'', p. 135
* Kruger was the dour, stolid, canny, provincial trader. The only time that his interest ever left the confines of the Transvaal was when he sought an alliance with William Hohenzollern, and that person, I might add, failed him at the critical moment.
** [[w:Isaac Frederick Marcosson|Isaac Frederick Marcosson]] in [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25569/25569-h/25569-h.htm An African Adventure], Chapter I – Smuts, p. 39, ''The Plimpton Press'' (1921)
* ... [characterized the Boer character] both in its brighter and darker aspects and was […] the greatest man – both morally and intellectually – which the Boer race has so far produced.
** [[w:Jan Smuts|Jan Smuts]] on 14 Julie 1904, as quoted in Bergh, J.S., 2017, Paul Kruger toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881-1900, Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria.

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Paul Kruger

2024-09-18T17:28:56Z

JMK: Du Plessis

[[File:Kruger old age.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Kruger]]

'''[[w:Paul Kruger|Paul Kruger]]''' (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century [[South Africa]], and President of the [[w:South African Republic|South African Republic]] (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.

==Quotes==
* ''Indien de Lieve Heer ons helpen en zegenen wilde, en wij ons land terug zouden krygen, dat den het volk elk jaar daar zouden komen feestvieren, juist by dezelfde steenhoop, en den Heer onze geloften komen betalen. En deze steenhoop is de eeuwige getuie daarvan.''
* If the Dear Lord would decide to help and bless us, and we would succeed in recovering our country, that the citizens would annually come to celebrate at this exact cairn, honouring our vow to the Lord. And this cairn serves as eternal witness to it.
**On 13 December 1880, when some 6 000 to 8 000 armed SAR citizens were adjured by Kruger to add stones to a cairn, marking their resolution to restore the Transvaal's independence. The Paardekraal Monument of 1890 still marks the spot, though the cairn was removed by British forces in 1901.

* ''Wy syn hier gekomen om feest te vieren en gy weet het. Ons en u doel is niets anders dan om meer en meer te doen verstaan den wil des Heeren en om ons te wyzen op zyne leiding, opdat de ouders aan hunne kinderen en kindskinderen tot in het verste nageslacht kunnen verhalen, wat God aan ons gedaan heeft.''
* We have arrived here to celebrate as you are well aware. Our aim, as your aim, is no less than to acquire a deeper understanding of the will of the Lord, and to apprise ourselves of his guidance, in order that the parents may convey to their children and grandchildren, and thence to our most distant descendants, what God has bestowed on us.
** At Paardekraal, current [[w:Krugersdorp|Krugersdorp]], addressing a crowd of SAR citizens who gathered to celebrate the Paardekraal resolution of a year before, besides the Day of the Vow (13 to 16 December 1881)

* ... I will bring a curse upon myself if our independence is violated by me, since God has guided us so visibly that the blindest heathen and most unbelieving creature had to admit that it was God's hand that gave us our independence.
** In 1893, as quoted by Du Plessis, J.S., President Kruger aan die woord: Verkiesingsmanifeste, intreeredes en toesprake van President S.J.P. Kruger, Sacum, Bloemfontein. See: [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269]

* Through the ''World'' I thank the people of the United States most sincerely for their sympathy. Last Monday the Republic gave Great Britain fourty-eight hours' notice within which to give the Republic an assurance that the present dispute would be settled by arbitration or other peaceful means, and that the troops would be removed from the borders. This expires at five to-day. The British Agent has been recalled. War is certain. The Republics are determined, if they must belong to Great Britain, that a price will have to be paid which will stagger humanity. They have, however, full faith. The sun of liberty will arise in South Africa as it arose in North America.
** Telegram to the ''New York World'' on 11 October 1899 at the start of the [[Second Boer War]], as quoted by Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''

* ''Zoekt in het verledene al het goede en schoone, dat daarin te ontdekken valt. Vormt daarnaar uw ideaal en beproeft voor de toekomst dat ideaal te verwezenlijken.''
* Seek in the past all that is good and beautiful that can be discovered there. Form your ideal accordingly and try to realize that ideal for the future.
** As quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 239. Van Schaik, Pretoria.
* Or: Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.
** From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land (Donker, 1981), p. 164

* ''…van de minste geleerden hunner.''
* …of the least learned among them.
** Referring to himself, c. 1890, with respect to his attendance of political meetings. He only received three months of formal school training. As quoted by Piet J. Strauss in [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269 Paul Kruger – ’n ‘Dopper’ van sy tyd?], In die Skriflig | In Luce Verbi, 1 June 2020

==Quotes about Kruger==
* I express to you my sincere congratulations that you and your people, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, have succeeded, by your own energetic action against the armed bands which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, in restoring peace and in maintaining the independence of the country against attack from without.
** The [[w:Kruger telegram|Kruger telegram]] sent by [[w:Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II]] on 3 January 1896, immediately after the [[w:Jameson Raid|Jameson Raid]] was thwarted, as quoted by J van der Poel in ''The Jameson Raid'', p. 135
* Kruger was the dour, stolid, canny, provincial trader. The only time that his interest ever left the confines of the Transvaal was when he sought an alliance with William Hohenzollern, and that person, I might add, failed him at the critical moment.
** [[w:Isaac Frederick Marcosson|Isaac Frederick Marcosson]] in [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25569/25569-h/25569-h.htm An African Adventure], Chapter I – Smuts, p. 39, ''The Plimpton Press'' (1921)
* ... [characterized the Boer character] both in its brighter and darker aspects and was […] the greatest man – both morally and intellectually – which the Boer race has so far produced.
** [[w:Jan Smuts|Jan Smuts]] on 14 Julie 1904, as quoted in Bergh, J.S., 2017, Paul Kruger toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881-1900, Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria.

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Paul Kruger

2024-09-18T17:17:10Z

JMK: /* Quotes */ Strauss

[[File:Kruger old age.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Kruger]]

'''[[w:Paul Kruger|Paul Kruger]]''' (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century [[South Africa]], and President of the [[w:South African Republic|South African Republic]] (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.

==Quotes==
* ''Indien de Lieve Heer ons helpen en zegenen wilde, en wij ons land terug zouden krygen, dat den het volk elk jaar daar zouden komen feestvieren, juist by dezelfde steenhoop, en den Heer onze geloften komen betalen. En deze steenhoop is de eeuwige getuie daarvan.''
* If the Dear Lord would decide to help and bless us, and we would succeed in recovering our country, that the citizens would annually come to celebrate at this exact cairn, honouring our vow to the Lord. And this cairn serves as eternal witness to it.
**On 13 December 1880, when some 6 000 to 8 000 armed SAR citizens were adjured by Kruger to add stones to a cairn, marking their resolution to restore the Transvaal's independence. The Paardekraal Monument of 1890 still marks the spot, though the cairn was removed by British forces in 1901.

* ''Wy syn hier gekomen om feest te vieren en gy weet het. Ons en u doel is niets anders dan om meer en meer te doen verstaan den wil des Heeren en om ons te wyzen op zyne leiding, opdat de ouders aan hunne kinderen en kindskinderen tot in het verste nageslacht kunnen verhalen, wat God aan ons gedaan heeft.''
* We have arrived here to celebrate as you are well aware. Our aim, as your aim, is no less than to acquire a deeper understanding of the will of the Lord, and to apprise ourselves of his guidance, in order that the parents may convey to their children and grandchildren, and thence to our most distant descendants, what God has bestowed on us.
** At Paardekraal, current [[w:Krugersdorp|Krugersdorp]], addressing a crowd of SAR citizens who gathered to celebrate the Paardekraal resolution of a year before, besides the Day of the Vow (13 to 16 December 1881)

* Through the ''World'' I thank the people of the United States most sincerely for their sympathy. Last Monday the Republic gave Great Britain fourty-eight hours' notice within which to give the Republic an assurance that the present dispute would be settled by arbitration or other peaceful means, and that the troops would be removed from the borders. This expires at five to-day. The British Agent has been recalled. War is certain. The Republics are determined, if they must belong to Great Britain, that a price will have to be paid which will stagger humanity. They have, however, full faith. The sun of liberty will arise in South Africa as it arose in North America.
** Telegram to the ''New York World'' on 11 October 1899 at the start of the [[Second Boer War]], as quoted by Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''

* ''Zoekt in het verledene al het goede en schoone, dat daarin te ontdekken valt. Vormt daarnaar uw ideaal en beproeft voor de toekomst dat ideaal te verwezenlijken.''
* Seek in the past all that is good and beautiful that can be discovered there. Form your ideal accordingly and try to realize that ideal for the future.
** As quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 239. Van Schaik, Pretoria.
* Or: Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.
** From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land (Donker, 1981), p. 164

* ''…van de minste geleerden hunner.''
* …of the least learned among them.
** Kruger referring to himself, c. 1890, with respect to his attendance of political meetings. He only received three months of formal school training. As quoted by Piet J. Strauss in [https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2565/6269#CIT0003_2565 Paul Kruger – ’n ‘Dopper’ van sy tyd?], In die Skriflig | In Luce Verbi, 1 June 2020

==Quotes about Kruger==
* I express to you my sincere congratulations that you and your people, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, have succeeded, by your own energetic action against the armed bands which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, in restoring peace and in maintaining the independence of the country against attack from without.
** The [[w:Kruger telegram|Kruger telegram]] sent by [[w:Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II]] on 3 January 1896, immediately after the [[w:Jameson Raid|Jameson Raid]] was thwarted, as quoted by J van der Poel in ''The Jameson Raid'', p. 135
* Kruger was the dour, stolid, canny, provincial trader. The only time that his interest ever left the confines of the Transvaal was when he sought an alliance with William Hohenzollern, and that person, I might add, failed him at the critical moment.
** [[w:Isaac Frederick Marcosson|Isaac Frederick Marcosson]] in [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25569/25569-h/25569-h.htm An African Adventure], Chapter I – Smuts, p. 39, ''The Plimpton Press'' (1921)
* ... [characterized the Boer character] both in its brighter and darker aspects and was […] the greatest man – both morally and intellectually – which the Boer race has so far produced.
** [[w:Jan Smuts|Jan Smuts]] on 14 Julie 1904, as quoted in Bergh, J.S., 2017, Paul Kruger toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881-1900, Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria.

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Paul Kruger

2024-09-18T17:06:12Z

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[[File:Kruger old age.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Kruger]]

'''[[w:Paul Kruger|Paul Kruger]]''' (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century [[South Africa]], and President of the [[w:South African Republic|South African Republic]] (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.

==Quotes==
* ''Indien de Lieve Heer ons helpen en zegenen wilde, en wij ons land terug zouden krygen, dat den het volk elk jaar daar zouden komen feestvieren, juist by dezelfde steenhoop, en den Heer onze geloften komen betalen. En deze steenhoop is de eeuwige getuie daarvan.''
* If the Dear Lord would decide to help and bless us, and we would succeed in recovering our country, that the citizens would annually come to celebrate at this exact cairn, honouring our vow to the Lord. And this cairn serves as eternal witness to it.
**On 13 December 1880, when some 6 000 to 8 000 armed SAR citizens were adjured by Kruger to add stones to a cairn, marking their resolution to restore the Transvaal's independence. The Paardekraal Monument of 1890 still marks the spot, though the cairn was removed by British forces in 1901.

* ''Wy syn hier gekomen om feest te vieren en gy weet het. Ons en u doel is niets anders dan om meer en meer te doen verstaan den wil des Heeren en om ons te wyzen op zyne leiding, opdat de ouders aan hunne kinderen en kindskinderen tot in het verste nageslacht kunnen verhalen, wat God aan ons gedaan heeft.''
* We have arrived here to celebrate as you are well aware. Our aim, as your aim, is no less than to acquire a deeper understanding of the will of the Lord, and to apprise ourselves of his guidance, in order that the parents may convey to their children and grandchildren, and thence to our most distant descendants, what God has bestowed on us.
** At Paardekraal, current [[w:Krugersdorp|Krugersdorp]], addressing a crowd of SAR citizens who gathered to celebrate the Paardekraal resolution of a year before, besides the Day of the Vow (13 to 16 December 1881)

* Through the ''World'' I thank the people of the United States most sincerely for their sympathy. Last Monday the Republic gave Great Britain fourty-eight hours' notice within which to give the Republic an assurance that the present dispute would be settled by arbitration or other peaceful means, and that the troops would be removed from the borders. This expires at five to-day. The British Agent has been recalled. War is certain. The Republics are determined, if they must belong to Great Britain, that a price will have to be paid which will stagger humanity. They have, however, full faith. The sun of liberty will arise in South Africa as it arose in North America.
** Telegram to the ''New York World'' on 11 October 1899 at the start of the [[Second Boer War]], as quoted by Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''

* ''Zoekt in het verledene al het goede en schoone, dat daarin te ontdekken valt. Vormt daarnaar uw ideaal en beproeft voor de toekomst dat ideaal te verwezenlijken.''
* Seek in the past all that is good and beautiful that can be discovered there. Form your ideal accordingly and try to realize that ideal for the future.
** As quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 239. Van Schaik, Pretoria.
* Or: Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.
** From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land (Donker, 1981), p. 164

==Quotes about Kruger==
* I express to you my sincere congratulations that you and your people, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, have succeeded, by your own energetic action against the armed bands which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, in restoring peace and in maintaining the independence of the country against attack from without.
** The [[w:Kruger telegram|Kruger telegram]] sent by [[w:Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II]] on 3 January 1896, immediately after the [[w:Jameson Raid|Jameson Raid]] was thwarted, as quoted by J van der Poel in ''The Jameson Raid'', p. 135
* Kruger was the dour, stolid, canny, provincial trader. The only time that his interest ever left the confines of the Transvaal was when he sought an alliance with William Hohenzollern, and that person, I might add, failed him at the critical moment.
** [[w:Isaac Frederick Marcosson|Isaac Frederick Marcosson]] in [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25569/25569-h/25569-h.htm An African Adventure], Chapter I – Smuts, p. 39, ''The Plimpton Press'' (1921)
* ... [characterized the Boer character] both in its brighter and darker aspects and was […] the greatest man – both morally and intellectually – which the Boer race has so far produced.
** [[w:Jan Smuts|Jan Smuts]] on 14 Julie 1904, as quoted in Bergh, J.S., 2017, Paul Kruger toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881-1900, Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria.

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P. W. Botha

2024-09-18T17:00:13Z

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[[File:PW Botha 1962.jpg|thumb|I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.]]
'''[[w:Pieter Willem Botha|Pieter Willem Botha]]''' ([[January 12]], [[1916]] – [[October 31]], [[2006]]), commonly known as "PW", was the prime minister of [[South Africa]] from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president from 1984 to 1989.

==Quotes==
[[File:Flag of South Africa (1982–1994).svg|thumb|"Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.]]

* The people who are opposing the policy of [[apartheid]] have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.
** As [[w:Member of parliament|MP]] of [[w:George, Western Cape|George]], House of Assembly, 7 September 1948, as quoted in ''Dictionary of South African Quotations'', Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, 1994, p. 251

* With the [[w:Suez Crisis|withdrawal of Britain]] [[w:East_of_Suez|east of the Suez]] and the consequent vacuum caused in the [[Middle East]], and the stocking of arsenals in some [[Africa|African]] states by [[Russia]] and [[China]], the dangers threatening South Africa today are greater than ever before.
** As [[w:Minister of Defence (South Africa)|Minister of Defence]], speaking in Pretoria on 1 April 1968, ''[[w:Die Burger|Die Burger]]'',[http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/extract-speech-made-heilbron-16-august-1968] 2 April 1968

* It should be noted that [[Refugee|refugees]] are crossing the border from [[w:Southern_Angola|southern Angola]] to [[South West Africa|South-West Africa]] – not the other way round. There is no [[War of aggression|aggression]] from our side.
** As Minister of Defence, denying shelling of southern Angola by the [[:w:South African Defence Force|SADF]], 9 November 1976, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 63

* The [[United States]] needs a man at the helm who knows some [[psychology]], who would know that you can't try to dictate to a people from abroad without stiffening their [[Resistance movement|resistance]].
** As Minister of Defence, interviewed in the ''New York Times'', 28 October 1977

* The [[Cuba|Cubans]] are not [[w:Cuban intervention in Angola|in Africa]] out of love.
** As Minister of Defence, 22 January 1978, ''Beeld''

* No more mine-laying. No more murder. No more abduction of women and children. No more attacks on headmen. No more raids across the border. So long as these conditions do not exist there will be no withdrawal [from South-West Africa] of [[w:South_African_Defence_Force|South African troops]].
** As Prime Minister to the House of Assembly, 8 March 1979, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 65

* I have been to Switzerland before but not to this <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Paul Kruger]]'s] house or to a Swiss bank.
** On a European tour as Prime Minister, 31 May 1984, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 51

* ... I am not prepared to build the [[Berlin Wall|type of wall you built]] in [[Berlin]]. In South Africa we only build walls for houses.
** To a ''Voice of America'' journalist in Berlin during a European tour, 3 September 1984, as cited in ''Venture into the Exterior: Through Europe With P.W. Botha'', John Scott, 1984

* You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.
** As quoted in ''A Treasury of Quotations'', Lennox-Short and Lee, Donker, 1991, p. 203

* I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the [[Bantu]] in the [[White people|white]] area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the [[Black people|black man]] in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country.
** Speaking to parliament on 11 May 1964 as Minister for Coloured Affairs, as cited in ''The Guardian'', 7 February 2006

* Many refugees – White, Brown and Black – flee to South Africa. Why? Here they know they have safety.
** As Minister of Defence, House of Assembly, 1 September 1975, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 17

* Where in the whole wide world today can you find a more just society than South Africa has?
** As Minister of Defence, East London NP Congress, 6 May 1976, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 16

* The fact is that the [[w:Westminster system|Westminster system]] has not worked anywhere in Africa – not even in [[England]] because the [[Scotland|Scots]] and [[Wales|Welsh]] are moving away from it.
** As Minister of Defence, Port Elizabeth NP Congress, 20 September 1976, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 49

* It's a psychological onslaught, an economic one, a [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] one, a [[military]] onslaught – a total onslaught.
** Speaking to the House of Assembly on 17 April 1978, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', November 5, 2006

* There is not an [[India|Indian]] community in the world that is better off than the Indians in South Africa. That is the type of [[apartheid]] that I stand for. That is the type of apartheid that is not dead.
** As prime minister in the House of Assembly, 23 April 1979, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 40

* Accept where I am going or I will not lead you.
** Addressing the Transvaal NP Congress on 18 September 1979, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', November 5, 2006

* I hate no black man. I hate no brown man. The same [[God]] that made me put them there too. My God is not only for [[Afrikaners]].
** Addressing the Transvaal NP Congress on 18 September 1979, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 25

* Adapt or die.
** From his speech to parliament, October 1979

* [[w:Nelson Mandela|Mandela]] has overstepped the mark. He has broken the law. The [[judiciary]] of this country has put him where he belongs according to the rules of [[democracy]].
** As Prime Minister at a National Party meeting in Stellenbosch, 10 April 1980, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 85

* We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not [[Prophet|prophets]]. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the [[future]] with [[faith]].
** As prime minister, introducing the [[wikisource:Republic of South Africa Constitution Fourth Amendment Act, 1980|4th Amendment]] to the Constitution Bill, 23 May 1980, which envisaged a [[w:Tricameral Parliament|tricameral]] corporate federation. Cited in ''The Star'', and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, ''PW Botha in his own words'', p. 27

* The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
** Speaking to the House of Assembly on January 28, 1981, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', 5 November 2006

* The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are [[English people|English]]- or [[German language|German]]- or [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]- or [[Italian language|Italian]]-speaking, or even [[w:Hebrew_language|Jewish]]-speaking, makes no difference.
** Speaking to the House of Assembly on February 20, 1981, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', 5 November 2006

* We are a strong country in a rather sick world. … Our problems are not so much racial as [[Radicalism|radicals]] wish to make them.
** As Prime Minister in a ''Business Week'' interview, USA, 4 April 1982, as cited in the ''Sunday Express'', and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, ''PW Botha in his own words'', p. 15, 41

* I have come to the realisation and conviction that the struggle in South Africa is not between White, Black and Brown, but between [[Christianity|Christian]] civilized standards and the powers of [[chaos]].
** As prime minister, Warrenton, 24 July 1982, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 23

* We do not want chaos in South Africa.
** Explaining why cinemas were not open to all races, House of Assembly, April 21, 1983, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', 5 November 2006

* We dare not see ourselves as a chosen people. We are called people - called to a particular task, just as every nation is a called people.
**As prime minister, on a Day of the Covenant rally in Hartenbosch, 16 December 1983, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 29

* There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner … and that is the Afrikaner himself.
** Speaking to the House of Assembly on 26 April 1984. Excerpt from a quote by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', 5 November 2006

* The Republic of South Africa has a new formula under the National Party's leadership: black nations can get freedom without firing shots or [[revolution]].
**As prime minister, Graaff-Reinet, 26 May 1984, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 35

* We do not force people to move to new homes, we coerce them. [Some believe he meant to say "convince"]
** Press conference in Switzerland on 2 June 1984, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', 5 November 2006

* The separation of races happened long before the Nationalist Government. God separated the races.
**As prime minister to an Austrian journalist during a European tour, 3 September 1984, as cited in ''The Star'', and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, ''PW Botha in his own words'', p. 24

* I am tired of constantly hearing how guilty the Afrikaner and the National Party are and the time has come that this myth be crushed.
**As state president, at the annual conference of the Afrikaner Studentebond, Stellenbosch, 15 April 1985, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 32

* I believe we are today crossing the Rubicon, Mr Chairman. In South Africa there can be no turning back. I have a manifesto for the future of our country and we must engage in positive action in the months and years that lie ahead.
** From his National Party Congress Speech in Durban on 15 August 1985

* [[Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner|Lord Milner]] had, in the forced [[w:Treaty of Vereeniging|Peace of Vereeniging]] ensured that there was to be no franchise for black people after the introduction of self-government – which was never intended. It was only after half a century that an Afrikaner government started doing something about black rights.
** As state president, unveiling a monument to Boer War victims at Delareyville, 10 October 1985, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 34

* Knowing [Mandela] will start up with [[violence]] again, I, as a responsible head of state, must release him so that he can carry on with his violence, and then arrest him? What a nonsensical argument.
** As State President in the House of Delegates, 23 April 1986, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 86

* South Africa is not a [[w:Jellyfish|jellyfish]] and is in many respects a [[w:Swordfish|swordfish]].
** Speaking to the House of Assembly on 28 April 1986, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', 5 November 2006

* Our enemies latched unto the word "[[apartheid]]" and in a very sly manner transformed it into the strongest weapon in the onslaught against freedom and civilization in our country.
** As state president at a parade of the SA Police College, Pretoria, 20 June 1986, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 37

* Unfortunately [South Africa] has been badly repaid for her loyalty because the West has expelled her from the family circle while befriending the most [[Dictatorship|dictatorial regimes]] on [[Earth]].
** As state president in an interview with ''Figaro'', Paris, 8 December 1986, as cited in ''The Star'', and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, ''PW Botha in his own words'', p. 41

* Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
** Reportedly to Cape Town journalists in February 1987, though later denied. As cited by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', 5 November 2006

* I want to warn young people who lend their ears to [[Radicalism|radicals]] and who play around with the music from [[w:Lusaka|Lusaka]] - they will end up inside the [[Bears|bear]]'s fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.
** At an election meeting in Pietermaritzburg on 30 April 1987, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, ''Sunday Times'', 5 November 2006

* No Prime Minister before me has been attacked more viciously than I am today.
** At an election meeting in Pietermaritzburg on 30 April 1987, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 19

* Never in the [[w:History_of_South_Africa|history of this country]] have so few people done so much for so many without acknowledgement by the international community.
** As state president, referring to the ruling National Party House of Assembly, 17 August 1987, as cited in ''PW Botha in his own words'', Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 28

* I feel more welcome among the black communities than I do among Coloureds
** Upon the resignation of [[w:Allan Hendrickse|Allan Hendrickse]] from cabinet, as quoted by Michael Parks, ''Los Angeles Times''[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-25-mn-4089-story.html], 25 August 1987

* Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.
** As cited in ''Dictionary of South African Quotations'', Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 53

* The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
** As cited in ''Dictionary of South African Quotations'', Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 90

* Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.
** As cited in ''Dictionary of South African Quotations'', Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 183

* Because you could not translate the word apartheid into the more universal language of [[English language|English]], the wrong connotation was given to it.
** As cited in ''Dictionary of South African Quotations'', Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 22

* I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of “Apartheid!” I’ve said many times that the word “Apartheid” means good neighbourliness.
** As cited in ''Country of My Skull'', Antjie Krog, Random House, p. 270

* I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the [[Europe|European]] community.
** As cited in ''Dictionary of South African Quotations'', Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 244

* The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.
** As cited in ''Dictionary of South African Quotations'', Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 11

* Half a century ago in this court I was sworn in as the Member of Parliament for George. And here I am today … I am not better than General De Wet. I am not better than President Steyn. Like them I stand firm in my principles. I can do no different. So help me God.
** As cited in ''Country of My Skull'', Antjie Krog, Random House, p. 270

* I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.
** As quoted in ''Dictionary of South African Quotations'', Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 285

* The white people who came here lived at a very much higher standard than the indigenous peoples, and with a very rich tradition which they brought with them from Europe.
** As cited in ''Dictionary of South African Quotations'', Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 441

==Quotes about Botha==
* President P.W. Botha’s notorious “Rubicon” speech on 15 August 1985 at the National Party Congress in Durban was probably one of the most significant speeches in the history of South Africa. It was supposed to break the political and military deadlock between the apartheid government and the banned liberation movements, notably the ANC. Botha was widely expected to announce new policies that could possibly have ended the political conflict in the country. However, that did not happen. Instead the speech was a total fiasco.  ...the South African government and P.W. Botha were not ready for such policy breakthrough announcements and had never planned to make them.
** Fanie Cloete in ''Resolving P.W. Botha’s 1985 Rubicon riddle'', Historia 64 (2), November 2019, pp. 132‐155.

* '''Uri Friedman''': Why did the [[South African]] government, in the mid-1970s, decide to embark on a [[Nuclear weapons|nuclear-weapons]] program?

: '''F.W. de Klerk''': The main motivation was the expansionist policies of the [[Soviet Union|U.S.S.R.]] in [[southern Africa]]. They were supporting all the [African] liberation movements—they were supplying weapons and training—and it was part of their vision to gain direct or indirect control over most of the countries in southern Africa. They financed the deployment of many thousands of [[Cuba|Cuban]] troops, especially to [[wikipedia:Angolan_Civil_War|Angola]], and this was interpreted as a threat first by Prime Minister [[John Vorster]], and following upon him P.W. Botha. [The nuclear arsenal] was never intended, I think, to be used. It was a deterrent. Because of apartheid South Africa was becoming more and more isolated in the eyes of the rest of the world. There wouldn’t be, in the case of [[Russia|Russian]] [[War of aggression|aggression]] or invasion, assistance from the international community. It was felt that, if we have nuclear weapons, and if we then would disclose in a crisis that we have [them], it would change the political scenario and the [[U.S.A.]] and other [Western] countries might step in and assist South Africa.
:* [[F. W. de Klerk]] as interviewed by Uri Friedman, [https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/09/north-korea-south-africa/539265/ "Why One President Gave Up His Country's Nukes"]. ''The Atlantic'', (9 September 2017).
* [From as early as 1979, P. W. Botha], in his capacity as president of apartheid South Africa, was the real architect of the secret talks that ultimately led to De Klerk’s historic announcement in February 1990. ... Nelson Mandela started the process of persuading [[w:Kobie_Coetzee|[Kobie] Coetsee]] that the time was ripe for the government to talk to the [[African National Congress|ANC]], and that he was prepared to lead the initiative in prison even before consulting Lusaka. ... Botha’s response was to ... commence secret talks with the ANC to explore possible negotiations with the enemy. ... The South African conflict had reached a stalemate [with] no possibility of victory for either side. ... It was in this toxic environment that Mandela and Botha rose to the occasion, both without a mandate. Mandela defied the ANC and engaged the enemy without a mandate because he knew that the hawks in the ANC would have stopped his initiative. Botha [authorised secret talks] without informing his Cabinet because it was too risky to do so. ... White voters still viewed the ANC as [[Terrorism|terrorists]] controlled by [[Moscow]] in the context of the [[Cold War]]. Reports of Botha talking to the ANC would have sunk him as leader of the National Party and president of South Africa.
** Sello Lediga in ''[https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2020-02-06-the-unsung-hero-who-changed-the-course-of-sa-history/ The unsung hero who changed the course of SA history]'', Opinionista, Daily Maverick, 6 February 2020

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'''[[w:Paul Kruger|Paul Kruger]]''' (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century [[South Africa]], and President of the [[w:South African Republic|South African Republic]] (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.

==Quotes==
* ''Indien de Lieve Heer ons helpen en zegenen wilde, en wij ons land terug zouden krygen, dat den het volk elk jaar daar zouden komen feestvieren, juist by dezelfde steenhoop, en den Heer onze geloften komen betalen. En deze steenhoop is de eeuwige getuie daarvan.''
* If the Dear Lord would decide to help and bless us, and we would succeed in recovering our country, that the citizens would annually come to celebrate at this exact cairn, honouring our vow to the Lord. And this cairn serves as eternal witness to it.
**On 13 December 1880, when some 6 000 to 8 000 armed SAR citizens were adjured by Kruger to add stones to a cairn, marking their resolution to restore the Transvaal's independence. The Paardekraal Monument of 1890 still marks the spot, though the cairn was removed by British forces in 1901.

* ''Wy syn hier gekomen om feest te vieren en gy weet het. Ons en u doel is niets anders dan om meer en meer te doen verstaan den wil des Heeren en om ons te wyzen op zyne leiding, opdat de ouders aan hunne kinderen en kindskinderen tot in het verste nageslacht kunnen verhalen, wat God aan ons gedaan heeft.''
* We have arrived here to celebrate as you are well aware. Our aim, as your aim, is no less than to acquire a deeper understanding of the will of the Lord, and to apprise ourselves of his guidance, in order that the parents may convey to their children and grandchildren, and thence to our most distant descendants, what God has bestowed on us.
** At Paardekraal, current [[w:Krugersdorp|Krugersdorp]], addressing a crowd of SAR citizens who gathered to celebrate the Paardekraal resolution of a year before, besides the Day of the Vow (13 to 16 December 1881)

* Through the ''World'' I thank the people of the United States most sincerely for their sympathy. Last Monday the Republic gave Great Britain fourty-eight hours' notice within which to give the Republic an assurance that the present dispute would be settled by arbitration or other peaceful means, and that the troops would be removed from the borders. This expires at five to-day. The British Agent has been recalled. War is certain. The Republics are determined, if they must belong to Great Britain, that a price will have to be paid which will stagger humanity. They have, however, full faith. The sun of liberty will arise in South Africa as it arose in North America.
** Telegram to the ''New York World'' on 11 October 1899 at the start of the [[Second Boer War]], as quoted by Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''

* ''Zoekt in het verledene al het goede en schoone, dat daarin te ontdekken valt. Vormt daarnaar uw ideaal en beproeft voor de toekomst dat ideaal te verwezenlijken.''
* Seek in the past all that is good and beautiful that can be discovered there. Form your ideal accordingly and try to realize that ideal for the future.
** As quoted in Bredell, H.C. & Grobler, P., 1947, Gedenkskrifte van Paul Kruger, p. 239. Van Schaik, Pretoria.
* Or: Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.
** From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land (Donker, 1981), p. 164)

==Quotes about Kruger==
* I express to you my sincere congratulations that you and your people, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, have succeeded, by your own energetic action against the armed bands which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, in restoring peace and in maintaining the independence of the country against attack from without.
** The [[w:Kruger telegram|Kruger telegram]] sent by [[w:Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II]] on 3 January 1896, immediately after the [[w:Jameson Raid|Jameson Raid]] was thwarted, as quoted by J van der Poel in ''The Jameson Raid'', p. 135
* Kruger was the dour, stolid, canny, provincial trader. The only time that his interest ever left the confines of the Transvaal was when he sought an alliance with William Hohenzollern, and that person, I might add, failed him at the critical moment.
** [[w:Isaac Frederick Marcosson|Isaac Frederick Marcosson]] in [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25569/25569-h/25569-h.htm An African Adventure], Chapter I – Smuts, p. 39, ''The Plimpton Press'' (1921)

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Wikipedia

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[[file:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg|thumb|right|Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.]]
[[file:Jimmy Wales accessing Wikipedia.jpg|thumb|[[Imagine]] a [[world]] in which every single person on the [[planet]] is given [[free]] access to the sum of all [[human]] [[knowledge]]. That's what we're doing.]]


'''[[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]''' is a free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system. Individual contributors, also called editors, are known as Wikipedians. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

== Quotes ==

===2000s===
====2000====
* '''What if we could get everyone in the world together to record what they know in one place?'''
** [[Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], when recruiting [[Larry Sanger]] in January 2000, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c9mRKFy5fU The early history of Wikipedia (part 1)] (1:49), Larry Sanger (7 May 2010)
[[File:Wikipedia app iOS.jpg|thumb|A view of the [[wikipedia:Wikipedia App|Wikipedia App]], the official [[wikipedia:Application software|app]] of Wikipedia. Any user can install Wikipedia, and you can install, before this, the Wikipedia App to download Wikipedia free and for this, a user need to go to
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or to https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-win8-wikipedia]]

====2001====
* At present I am overworked and the [Nupedia] project is suffering to some extent as a result... I just don't have the time to find lead reviewers for the articles listed [in "General and Other"]. The problem is that it is VERY difficult to find *specialists* on each of those topics.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20030503011149/http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000671.html Thread: General and Other editor and editorial changes?], ''Nupedia-l mailing list'' (5 January 2001)

* It's an idea to add a little feature to Nupedia. ..."Wiki," pronounced \wee'-kee\, derives from a Polynesian word, "wikiwiki," but what it means is a VERY open, VERY publicly-editable series of web pages. ... I can start a page ... Anyone else (yes, absolutely anyone else) can come along and make absolutely any changes to it that he wants to. ... On the page I create, I can link to any other pages, and of course anyone can link to mine. The project is billed and pursued as a public resource. There are a few announced suggestions or rules. ... As to Nupedia's use of a wiki, this is the ULTIMATE "open" and simple format for developing content. We have occasionally bandied about ideas for simpler, more open projects to either replace or supplement Nupedia. ... [It] can be a place where additional changes and commentary can be gleaned... The content can be licensed under an open content license. On the front page of the Nupedia wiki we'd make it ABSOLUTELY clear that this is experimental...
** [[Larry Sanger]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20030414014355/http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000676.html Thread: Let's make a wiki], ''Nupedia-l mailing list'' (10 January 2001)

* We wouldn't call it "the Nupedia wiki" though that's what it would be. ... On the "wikipedia" we would say that this is a supplementary project to Nupedia which operates entirely independently.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20030414021138/http:/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000680.html Thread: Re: [Advisory-l] The wiki...], ''Nupedia-l mailing list'' (11 January 2001)

* It was a cold Friday evening in January 2001. I was on duty in one of my uni's computer labs...
: At first I was a bit intimidated about the entries and discussions, which I saw there. The main contributors at the time were Jimbo, Larry and w:Josh Grosse. The 'Pedia had ca. 700 (!) entries, and was still using the weird Camel Case format, which made links appear in the manner of w:PortugaL or w:PolanD. After a bit of lurking around I quickly figured out what the purpose of the project was, and came to the simple conclusion "Me likes thees!".
: What followed were normal symptoms of my gradual turning into a w:Wikipediholic. I spent a large portion of my free time starting entries, editing, and cross-linking. I witnessed the project grow gradually and in waves as it became more popular (slashdotting, etc.). During the Summer, doing the hard job of an analyst at a medium-sized Polish financial institution kept me away for a while. I was back in mid-September. And I intend to stay for as long as I can, or until my cable modem dies on me.
** +wojpob [[Meta:How I became a Wikipedian#In a galaxy far, far away… |How I became a Wikipedian]] (8 December 2001)

* Hello, World!
** [[Jimmy Wales]], first edit on the [[w:UseModWiki|UseModWiki]] home page on 15 January 2001, as cited by Biz Carson, [http://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedias-first-words-hello-world-2016-3 The first words on Wikipedia were a nerdy programmer in-joke] (13 March 2016), and confirmed by Wales in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJimbo_Wales&diff=392514555&oldid=392508515 User talk:Jimbo Wales] (24 October 2001)

* ...why 2 sites, or 2 encyclopedias? My impression of them is Wikipedia is the "everyman's" encyclopedia and Nupedia is for the university elite. I looked at being a writer [for Nupedia] but I really felt I wouldn't be welcome since I'm just a college graduate of a two year program for corporate communications.
** Laura T. in [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000665.html Thread: LinkBacks?], ''Wikipedia-l mailing list'' (30 October 2001)

* After a year or so of working on Nupedia, Larry had the idea to use Wiki software for a separate project specifically for people like you (and me!) who are intimidated and bored (sorry, Nupedia!) with the tedium of the process. As it turns out, Wikipedia is dramatically more successful on some measures, ... The main thing about Wikipedia is that it is fun and addictive.
** [[Jimmy Wales]] in [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000671.html Thread: LinkBacks?], ''Wikipedia-l mailing list'' (30 October 2001)

* Wikis don't work if people aren't bold. You've got to get out there and make those changes, correct that grammar, add those facts, make that language precise, etc., etc. It's OK. It's what everyone expects. So you should never ask, "Why aren't these pages copyedited?" Amazingly, it all works out. It does require some amount of politeness, but it works. You'll see.
** [[Larry Sanger]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Be_bold&oldid=238127 Wikipedia:Be bold] (30 October, 2001)

====2002====
*Larry Sanger resigned on March 1st, 2002. He won't even stay as a volunteer. The project now no longer has a leader (or, put another way, everyone is a leader now).
**''AnonymousDonor'' on Meatball Wiki in March 2002, as quoted in [http://larrysanger.org/roleinwp.html "My role in Wikipedia (links)"] (c. 2009)
*Now that Larry Sanger is gone, Wikipedia's owners will have to watch whether the project manages the transition to effective self-regulation and step in if necessary.
**[[:w:Erik Möller|Erik Möller]] of the WikiMedia Board in [[:w:Kuro5hin|Kuro5hin]] in March 2002, as quoted in [http://larrysanger.org/roleinwp.html "My role in Wikipedia (links)"] (c. 2009)
* The bar to contribution is very low, and if there is any elite in charge, then with all due respect [...], our elite would seem rather less than impressive compared to the leading members of the intelligentsia that contribute to the likes of Britannica. ... The free encyclopedia movement [...] doesn't seem to be travelling in the direction of being led by world-class thinkers, scholars, and scientists,... Basically, Wikipedia is the only game left in town as far as the free encyclopedia movement is concerned.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-September/004531.html "Why the free encyclopedia movement needs to be more like the free software movement"], 1 September 2002

====2003====
* The Wikipedia, perhaps one of the greatest testaments to the generosity on the web, has just hit a milestone of 100,000 articles, a week after its second birthday. ... What makes the Wikipedia so compelling – and this article so hard to finish – is the way everything is so massively linked. You read one entry, and before you know it, you're reading up on Anne Boleyn or Italian greyhounds. But more than that, anyone can add to or edit an entry, or even create another one.
** [[w:Ben Hammersley|Ben Hammersley]], [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/jan/30/onlinesupplement1 Common knowledge], ''The Guardian'' (30 January 2003)

* The current versions of these [Wikipedia] articles aren't necessarily the best way to handle it; I think they would do better to discuss *and debunk* racist notions as much as possible, putting them in the proper context so when some kid hears about "racialism" or "reverse racism" and then looks it up on Wikipedia they'll see a rational, neutral explanation of what makes some people think and speak that way – so they'll _understand_ why to discount those ideas. ... There are lessons to be learned from the evil that men do.
** [[w:Brion Vibber|Brion Vibber]], in [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-January/008799.html Thread: Jimbo ? Others advices ?], ''Wikipedia-l mailing list'' (31 January 2003)

* Even racists have the right to freedom of expression. But, not on wikipedia. ... The policies of wikipedia, even the [[wikipedia:French Wikipedia|French Wikipedia]], aren't constrained by French law. Yahoo caved in to French censorship efforts because they are a large company with many business interests in France. We do not have that problem. ... Anyhow, no article in Wikipedia should ever directly contradict or directly support any controversial statement of moral principle such as the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. That's not NPOV, and it's not our mission. ... You are right not to tolerate this kind of sentence. ... But, not becau[s]e of French law! Because of NPOV.
** [[Jimmy Wales]] in [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-January/008822.html Thread: Jimbo ? Others advices ?] and [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-January/008823.html Thread: Racialisme], ''Wikipedia-l mailing list'' (31 January 2003)

* This may sound like a recipe for disaster, but the results are impressive. While many of the site's 130,000-plus articles are definitely works in progress, many are rich, concise, and polished. ... Surprisingly, our time spent on Wikipedia turned up no junk entries and no defacements. ... A few of the articles seemed a bit dated, and we came across many red links or blue links that led to single-sentence placeholders. But for the most part, the items were useful and thoughtful.
** Sean Carroll, [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2266624,00.asp Site of the Week: Wikipedia], ''[[w:PC Magazine|PC Magazine]]'' (6 June 2003)

====2004====
*'''[[Imagine]] a [[world]] in which every single person on the [[planet]] is given [[free]] access to the sum of [[all]] [[human]] [[knowledge]]. That's what we're [[doing]].'''
** [[Jimmy Wales]], as quoted in [http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230 "Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds,"] by Robin "Roblimo" Miller, ''Slashdot'' (28 July 2004)

*However closely a Wikipedia article may at some point in its life attain to reliability, it is forever open to the uninformed or semiliterate meddler.
**Critique given by former [[w:Encyclopædia Britannica|Encyclopædia Britannica]] editor [[w:Robert McHenry|Robert McHenry]] in a frequently cited 2004 piece, ''The Faith-Based Encyclopedia''

*The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.
**Critique given by former [[w:Encyclopædia Britannica|Encyclopædia Britannica]] editor [[w:Robert McHenry|Robert McHenry]] in a frequently cited 2004 piece [https://web.archive.org/web/20101204040824/http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2004/11/the-faith-based-encyclopedia.html "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia"]

*"encyclopedia ... that anyone can edit"
** [[User:Lowellian]], from [[:wikipedia:special:diff/7558898/7663390|Main Page edit]] (16 November 2004)

====2005====
*You're clearly not here to write an encyclopedia.
** [[User:Jfdwolff]], from [[:wikipedia:special:diff/28452358/28461739|conversation with disruptive user]], led to rule [[:wikipedia:Wikipedia:NOTHERE]] (15 November 2005)

====2006====
[[File:Stephen Colbert 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|If I want to say he didn't that's my right, and now, thanks to Wikipedia – it's also a [[fact]]. ~ [[Stephen Colbert]] on the ownership of slaves by [[George Washington]] ]]
* I take a [[wikt:glass-half-full|half-full-glass]] view, based on a different understanding of what [Wikipedia's competition is]: not the traditional professionally produced encyclopedias, but the legions of sites that, springing up all over the Web, purport to contain answers, unverified and often unverifiable, to every topic on earth. Against that standard, Wikipedia is a resounding success.
** [[w:Bertrand Meyer|Bertrand Meyer]] in [http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/wikipedia/wikipedia.pdf Defense and Illustration of Wikipedia], ''ETH Zurich / Eiffel Software'' (6-7 January 2006)

*For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War – and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge – get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.
**[[w:Lore Sjöberg|Lore Sjöberg]], [https://archive.is/20120524104749/www.wired.com/software/webservices/commentary/alttext/2006/04/70670 "The Wikipedia FAQK"], ''[[w:Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' (19 April 2006)

*Wikipedia's promise is nothing less than the liberation of human knowledge – both by incorporating all of it through the collaborative process, and by freely sharing it with everybody who has access to the internet. This is a radically popular idea.
**''The Economist'' (20 April 2006)

*Shoppin' online for deals on some writable media. I edit Wikipedia.
**[["Weird Al" Yankovic]], "[[w:White & Nerdy|White & Nerdy]]", ''[[w:Straight Outta Lynwood|Straight Outta Lynwood]]'' (2006)

*When I visited the offices [in St. Petersburg, Florida] in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge.
**Stacy Schiff, [https://archive.is/20121205043213/www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact "Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?"], ''The New Yorker'' (31 July 2006)

*If I want to say he didn't that's my right, and now, thanks to Wikipedia – it's also a fact.
**[[Stephen Colbert]] on the ownership of slaves by [[George Washington]], on ''The Colbert Report'' (31 July 2006)

*In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an [[expert]] in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
**[[Stephen Colbert]], [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/colbert.html "Be an Expert on Anything"], ''Wired Magazine'', 14:08 (14 August 2006)

* Wikipedia's openness isn't a mistake; it's the source of its success. A dedicated community solves problems that official leaders wouldn't even know were there. Meanwhile, their volunteerism largely eliminates infighting about who gets to be what. ... Wikipedia's biggest problems have come when it's strayed from this path, when it's given some people official titles and specified tasks. Whenever that happens, real work slows down and squabbling speeds up. But it's an easy mistake to make, so it gets made again and again.
** [[w:Aaron Swartz|Aaron Swartz]] in [http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whorunswikipedia Wikimedia 2006 Elections, Part 3: Who Runs Wikipedia?], ''Raw Thought'' (7 September 2006)

====2007====
[[File:JimmyWalesJI5.jpg|thumb|[[Friedrich Hayek|Hayek]]'s work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project.  ...  one can't [[understand]] my [[ideas]] about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] ]]
[[File:Anarchy-symbol.svg|thumb|But how does such a [[w:polycentrism|polycentric]] – even [[anarchic]] – system, composed of editors acting independently and for their own reasons, result in such an utterly useful resource?  The answer goes back to the [[Friedrich Hayek|Hayekian]] [[inspiration]] for the project.  Because [[editors]] receive both [[psychological]] satisfaction and material usefulness from their contributions, the project has grown to include safeguards that help guarantee that the development of the project will move in a positive direction – towards broad, accurate articles that depend on reliable, verifiable sources. ~ Dick Clark]]
*'''Hofstadter''': The entry is filled with inaccuracies, and it kind of depresses me. '''Solomon:''' So fix it. '''Hofstadter:''' The next day someone will fix it back.
**On "[[Douglas Hofstadter]]" article; Deborah Solomon, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01wwlnQ4.t.html "The Mind Reader,"] ''New York Times'' (1 April 2007)

*Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.
**Michael Scott (played by [[w:Steve Carell|Steve Carell]]), ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]'', ''The Negotiation'' 3.18 (5 April 2007)

*As the popular joke goes, "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work."
**Miikka Ryokas ([[w:User:Kizor|User:Kizor]]), quoted by [[Noam Cohen]], [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/technology/23link.html?ex=1178510400&en=c0eb1b23e5c579f7&ei=5070 "The Latest on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia",] ''The New York Times'' (23 April 2007); the earliest known variant is from the user page of [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Gareth_Owen&diff=35978744 User:Gareth Owen (20 January 2006)]: "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.")

*[[Friedrich Hayek|Hayek]]'s work on [[price theory]] is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project.  ...  [O]ne can't [[understand]] my [[ideas]] about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.
**[[Jimmy Wales]], cited by Katherine Mangu-Ward, "[http://reason.com/archives/2007/05/30/wikipedia-and-beyond Wikipedia and Beyond: Jimmy Wales' sprawling vision]," ''[[w:Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'' (June 2007); also cited by Morton Winston and Ralph Edelbach, ''Society, Ethics, and Technology'' 4th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2012), p. 200

* You just can't put something with commercial motive into Wikipedia. Admitting it is hardly better; it is still a crime. The Wikipedians and bloggers will attack hard and they will deserve what they get.
** On an attempt to promote a marketing slogan by creating a Wikipedia article for it
** [[w:Jeff Jarvis|Jeff Jarvis]] in [http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/23/buying-their-voices/ "Buying their voices"] in ''BuzzMachine'' (23 June 2007) 

*You set up this fantastic site, with people sending information all around the world, and you don't make any money of it! It's practically an un-American activity!
**[[w:Clive Anderson|Clive Anderson]], ''The Wikipedia Story'', [[w:BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]] (24 July 2007)

*There are a lot of bad things said about Wikipedia, the ninth most-visited destination on the internet.  An encyclopedia that anyone can edit, critics argue, is one that is vulnerable to endless mistakes.  Such criticisms have been raised by skeptics since Wikipedia's creation in 2001.  ...  While that ultimate goal imagined by [[Jimmy Wales|Wales]] for Wikipedia has not yet come to fruition, there is no questioning the breadth and usefulness of Wikipedia.  Those who refused to believe that a user-generated encyclopedia could compete with the monolithic, traditional encyclopedia written by experts and organized by professional editors, were no doubt shocked when ''Nature'' magazine published a 2006 article comparing Wikipedia to the well-known ''Encyclopedia Britannica''.  '''The article concluded that Wikipedia articles were comparable in accuracy and thoroughness to those of the older, paper encyclopedia.'''
** Dick Clark, in "[https://mises.org/library/wikipedia-what-it-good Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?]," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*The man credited with founding Wikipedia, [[Jimmy Wales]]...was a finance major at [[w:Auburn University|Auburn University]] when the [[w:Mises Institute|Mises Institute]]'s [[w:Mark Thornton|Mark Thornton]] suggested he read "[[The Use of Knowledge in Society]]," a now-famous essay written by [[Austrian School|Austro]]-[[libertarian]] [[economist]] and [[w:Nobel Prize|Nobel]] laureate [[Friedrich von Hayek]].  The essay argues that [[prices]] in the [[market]] represent a [[spontaneous order]] that results from the interaction of [[individuals]] with diverse [[wants]], allowing them to [[cooperate]] to achieve complex [[goals]].  According to a June 2007 ''[[w:Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'' magazine interview, this insight of Hayek's is what led Wales to found Wikipedia.  The rather lofty vision that inspired Wales?  "[[Imagine]] a [[world]] in which every single [[person]] on [[Earth|the planet]] is given free access to the sum of all [[human]] [[knowledge]].  That's what we're doing."
** Dick Clark, in "Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*But how does such a [[w:polycentrism|polycentric]] – even [[anarchism|anarchic]] – system, composed of editors acting independently and for their own reasons, result in such an utterly useful resource?  The answer goes back to the [[Friedrich Hayek|Hayekian]] [[inspiration]] for the project.  Because [[editors]] receive both [[psychological]] satisfaction and material usefulness from their contributions, the project has grown to include safeguards that help guarantee that the development of the project will move in a positive direction – towards broad, accurate articles that depend on reliable, verifiable sources.
** Dick Clark, in "Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*One could very aptly describe the Wikipedia system for directing the development of the project as being a [[common law]] system of sorts.  The encyclopedia has basic policies – the [[constitutional]] [[law]] of Wikipedia – which require that articles be written from a [[neutral]] point of view, make use of verifiable sources, and include no original research.  ...  Whenever a content dispute does arise between editors on the "talk" pages that accompany each article, there are a host of [[w:dispute resolution|dispute resolution]] options available.
** Dick Clark, in "Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*Wikipedia's reflection of market dynamics is most easily observed in what many people view as the project's weakest areas: obscure articles that draw little traffic.  In articles about third-rate garage bands and other topics of limited interest, one will often find factual and typographical errors at a much higher rate than in high-traffic articles such as those on "[[w:England|England]]" or "[[w:Barry Bonds|Barry Bonds]]."  The much higher demand for [[information]] about the latter topics means that many more eyes will be combing those much-demanded articles for mistakes.  Since Wikipedia is open to correction by anyone, it stands to reason that the articles attracting more potential editors will be of a higher quality.  Rather than a [[failure]], this is a great demonstration of Wikipedia's [[efficient]] allocation of resources.
** Dick Clark, in "Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?," ''Mises Daily'' (19 September 2007)

*The Tsunami article is well researched and extensive, only at two places a little inaccurate. The scientific Wikipedia articles are, according to my judgement, almost always good.
**[[:de:Frank Schätzing|Frank Schätzing]], SF author, quoted in [http://www.stern.de/digital/online/2-wikipedia-wissen-fuer-alle-606048.html ''Stern'' (December 2007)]

*The article [Martin Luther] is ample and solidly written. Someone was really occupied with Luther and read some church histories. I give extra points for quoting from sources and the pictures.
**[[:de:Margot Käßmann|Margot Käßmann]], Lutheran bishop, quoted in [http://www.stern.de/digital/online/2-wikipedia-wissen-fuer-alle-606048.html ''Stern'' (December 2007)]

*There is nothing to add to that entry [Marinade]. In my view it contains all important information. I use Wikipedia often for food chemistry. Sometimes you find something you didn't even think about.
**[[w:de:Sarah Wiener|Sarah Wiener]], TV cook, quoted in [http://www.stern.de/digital/online/2-wikipedia-wissen-fuer-alle-606048.html ''Stern'' (December 2007)]

====2008====
*I think there's more information about culture in Wikipedia than anywhere else in the world, ever.
**[[w:Tyler Cowen|Tyler Cowen]], "Why everything has changed: the recent revolution in cultural economics" in ''Journal of Cultural Economics'' (2008), 32, p. 266, DOI 10.1007/s10824-008-9074-y

* Wikipedia is, at least to some extent, a ''revenge site''. People (like [Don] Murphy) who have a knack for angering and upsetting others are primary targets for that sort of treatment. This is not rocket science, folks. ... As the level of perceived “obnoxiousness” required to make someone a [Wikipedia] target continues to drop, the question becomes, ''how far will it drop?''
** User Somey (24 March 2008), in response to [http://archive.li/EddMg#selection-1459.16-1458.1 Don Murphy - another Living Person who doesn't want a Wikipedia biography] by user blissyu2, ''[[w:Wikipedia Review|Wikipedia Review]]'' (7 September 2007)

* Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in anime.
** [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], [http://www.startribune.com/the-speculator/18174439/ The Speculator], in the Minnesota Star-Tribune (28 April 2008)

*Wikipedia's version of reality has already become a monopoly. And all the prejudices and ignorance of its creators are imposed too.
**[[w:Martin Cohen (philosopher)|Martin Cohen]], [https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/encyclopaedia-idiotica/403327.article Encyclopaedia Idiotica], ''Times Higher Education'' (28 August 2008)

*Beware corporate executives posing as social visionaries. The hype may be about the fulfillment of human potential, but the reality is the exploitation of digital sharecropping.
**Seth Finkelstein, "[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/25/wikipedia.internet Wikipedia isn't about human potential, whatever Wales says]", ''The Guardian'' (25 September 2008)

*This term "[[democratic]]" gets tossed around a lot, usually in a positive, "power to the people rather than some arbitrary ruler" sense.  By that meaning, [[Wikipedia]] is indeed democratic.  Yet, unlike a state democracy, 51% at the polls will not necessarily trump a Wikipedia adversary.  So in the sense that the word "democracy" comes loaded with a "one man, one vote" [[ideology]], Wikipedia is not democratic at all.  And it is a good thing that Wikipedia isn't a democracy.
** Dick Clark, "[https://mises.org/library/free-encyclopedia-democratic-encyclopedia Is the Free Encyclopedia a Democratic Encyclopedia?]," ''Mises Daily'' (2 October 2008)

====2009====
[[File:Main page experiment - The Anome.png|thumb|It's said that aeronautical theory says bumblebees ought not to be able to fly. Likewise, the idea that a useful, serious reference work could emerge from the contributions of thousands of "ordinary" internet users, many without scholarly qualifications, would until comparatively recently have been dismissed as absurd. ~ [[w:John Naughton|John Naughton]] ]]

* The project's advocates imagine that the problem, if they recognise one at all, lies in the variable quality of Wikipedia's individual entries. The solution is obvious: a process in which editors work on the less successful entries and remove the obviously unmerited ones. In reality, the problem is much more fundamental to Wikipedia than that much of its content is a pile of dross. Whereas science and learning pursue truth, Wikipedia prizes consensus. Wikipedia has no means of arbitrating between different claims, other than how many people side with one position rather than another. That ethos is fatal to the advancement of learning. Ideas are refined by being tested; scientific method presupposes scrutiny, experiment and conflict.
** [[Oliver Kamm]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090405022017/http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/46900,opinion,knowledge-by-consensus-wikipedia-jimmy-wales "Wikipedia is junk"] ''The First Post: The Week'' (April 1, 2009)
** The original title of the article was "Wikipedia is junk", but in the archived save it has become deformed to simply "Wikipedia".

*It's said that aeronautical theory says bumblebees ought not to be able to fly. Likewise, the idea that a useful, serious reference work could emerge from the contributions of thousands of "ordinary" internet users, many without scholarly qualifications, would until comparatively recently have been dismissed as absurd.
**[[w:John Naughton|John Naughton]], [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/apr/05/digital-media-referenceandlanguages "Face facts: where Britannica ruled, Wikipedia has conquered"], ''The Guardian'' (5 April 2009)

*Even the founders of Wikipedia had no clue when they started the project of what it would accomplish. They dug a hole to find water, and struck oil instead.
**[[w:User:Erik Zachte|Erik Zachte]] (Wikimedia Foundation data analyst), [http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/numbers-and-strategy/ "Numbers and Strategy"] {{dead link}} (24 July 2009)

*a lot of articles will be locked down. The history of Wikipedia has been one of increasing barriers to changing articles
** [[Simon Pulsifer]] '''[https://www.thestar.com/news/2009/11/23/thousands_of_editors_leaving_wikipedia.html Thousands of editors leaving Wikipedia]''' (Nov. 23, 2009)

* The early days were a gold rush,They attracted lots and lots of people, because a new person could write about anything.
** [[Sue Gardner]] '''[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125893981183759969 Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages]''' (Nov. 27, 2009 12:01 am ET)

*We now see the strong emergence of the Social Web instead of the Semantic Web, and a proposal has been made to use Wikipedia, the largest hierarchical collection of information in the world, as bottom-up input for the ontologies required to give shape to the Semantic Web.
**Jaap Bloem, Menno van Doorn, and Sander Duivestein, in ''Me the media: rise of the conversation society'', [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Ed. VINT printed by Bariet, The Netherlands] (2009) , p. 277, {{ISBN|978 90 75414 22 6}}

* The only solution is to shut [Wikipedia] down and scatter it to the four winds. The idea that experts don't matter but 12 year old Canadians in their basements do is beyond untenable. ... What gives any anonymous douchebag the qualifications to write about ME and then call it encyclopedic? The project has failed from the top down. There is no fixing.
** [[w:Don Murphy|Don Murphy]] writing under username "ColScott" in ''[http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=27677&st=40 Wikipedia Review]'' (6 December 2009)

===2010s===
====2010====
[[File:Jeffrey Tucker Freedomfest 2013.jpg|thumb|So I finally gave in and coughed up a [[donation]] for [[Wikipedia]].  It was no trouble at all, and [[felt]] [[good]].  ...  It's true that giving this way doesn't make rational sense according to a [[neoclassical economics|neoclassical]] idea of what constitutes [[economic]] rationality.  [[Wikipedia]] is free and it will be there whether I give or not.  The same might be said of the [[:w:Ludwig von Mises Institute|Mises Institute]].  If all we cared about were [[commerce|commercial]] exchange, I have every incentive to use the free good and never pay.  There is no harm done in [[:w:free riding|free riding]], right?  [[Ludwig von Mises|Mises]] himself had a broader view of rationality.  He said that all [[actions]] are [[rational]] from the point of view of the actor.  I'm glad to embrace that [[idea]].  Giving in this way is not strictly a [[capitalist]] act if you define capitalism as only commercial exchange based on [[contract]].  But if we see capitalism as the voluntary sector of [[society]] characterized by [[private property]] [[relationships]], this kind of micro-giving is part of that. ~ [[w:Jeffrey Tucker|Jeffrey A. Tucker]] ]]

*Wikipedia is effectively one-of-a-kind. No other mass-market or topically broad wikis have had meaningful success to date. Even Wikimedia's other wiki projects are not nearly as active as Wikipedia. If successful wikis are rare, Wikipedia might be a one-in-a-million lightning strike — some unique combination of factors succeeded in this case, but those circumstances are unlikely to replicate. If so, Wikipedia's rarity might also highlight its fragility.
** [[w:Eric Goldman|Eric Goldman]], Wikipedia's Labor Squeeze and its Consequences, ''Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology'', vol. 8, p. 157 (2010)

* There are a number of trolls, stalkers, and psychopaths who wander around Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects looking for people to harass, stalk, and otherwise ruin the lives of (several have been arrested over their activities here) ... You will eventually say something that will lead back to you, and the stalkers will find it ... I decided to be myself, to never hide my personality, to always be who I am, but to utilize disinformation with regard to what I consider unimportant details: age, location, occupation, etc.
** [[w:Essjay controversy|Ryan Jordan]] quoted in [https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge], by Edwin Black, ''History News Network'' (19 April 2010)

* 1. Wikipedia has no governance to speak of. It's a land of jungle law. 2. Wikipedia has no respect for people and their works. People are treated on Wikipedia like s--t. 3. Wikipedia cannot be trusted for accurate information, considering the agenda-pushing street gangs of wiki. 4. Wikipedia pollutes the internet as well as diminishes scholarship. It floods and pollutes the search engines on the internet and pushes out good scholarship and honest debate in favor of bad scholarship, defamation, and bold face intimidation and thuggery. 5. Wikipedia needs to be brought under the rules of slander, liable [sic], defamation, and copyright laws. 6. Wikipedia should be stripped of its 501c3 status.
** A posting by ''victim of censorship'' in [[w:Wikipedia Review|Wikipedia Review]] (6 December 2009), as quoted in [https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge], by Edwin Black, ''History News Network'' (19 April 2010)

*When I write, I consult Wikipedia 30–40 times a day, because it is really helpful. When I write, I don't remember if someone was born in the 6th century or the 7th; or maybe how many n's are in "Goldmann"... Just a few years ago, for this kind of thing you could waste a lot of time.
**[[Umberto Eco]], [http://it.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione&oldid=876121 interview by Wikinotizie:Wiki@Home], ''Wikimedia Italia'' (24 April 2010)

* At our roundtable, an audience member commented that the web was supposed to offer a [[democratic]] space in which no voices or experiences would be marginalized or ignored. Yet the coverage on Wikipedia has huge gaps, partly because of the interests and knowledge of those who have hitherto been most drawn to contributing: "more than 80 percent [[male]], more than 65 percent [[single]], more than 85 percent without [[children]], around 70 percent under the age of 30." Although Wikipedia boasts thousands of detailed, well-researched, well-referenced articles on scholarly subjects, such as its [[Featured Articles]], entries on fictional locations such as Middle-earth may be much more detailed than entries on real locations, such as countries in [[Africa]].
** [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wiki-hacking:_Opening_up_the_academy_with_Wikipedia Wiki-hacking: Opening up the academy with Wikipedia] (May 29, 2010)

* So I finally gave in and coughed up a [[donation]] for [[Wikipedia]].  It was no trouble at all, and [[felt]] [[good]].  Now I have a sense that I'm a partial owner – a stakeholder of sorts – in this apparatus that I use every day.  ...  [[Giving]] like this can be habit forming.  ...  It's true that giving this way doesn't make rational sense according to a [[:w:neoclassical economics|neoclassical]] idea of what constitutes [[economic]] rationality.  [[Wikipedia]] is free and it will be there whether I give or not.  The same might be said of the [[Ludwig von Mises Institute|Mises Institute]].  If all we cared about were [[commerce|commercial]] exchange, I have every incentive to use the free good and never pay.  There is no harm done in [[free riding]], right?[[Ludwig von Mises|Mises]] himself had a broader view of rationality.  He said that all [[actions]] are [[rational]] from the point of view of the actor.  I'm glad to embrace that [[idea]].  Giving in this way is not strictly a [[capitalist]] act if you define capitalism as only commercial exchange based on [[contract]].  But if we see capitalism as the voluntary sector of [[society]] characterized by [[private property]] [[relationships]], this kind of micro-giving is part of that.
**[[w:Jeffrey Tucker|Jeffrey A. Tucker]], "[https://mises.org/blog/fostering-donation-culture Fostering a Donation Culture]," ''Mises Wire'' (29 December 2010)

*[[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] is, for many users, the primary site for information on the Web ... At present, Wikipedia hosts more than 2.9 million English-language articles, with a total of 13 million articles available in more than 250 different languages ... Wikipedia is the second-most searched site on the Internet, behind only Google.
**Michael Miller, in ''Sam's Teach Yourself Wikipedia in 10 Minutes'' (2010), p. 3 & 5 {{ISBN|978-0-672-33123-7}}

*As [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] founder [[w:Jim Wales|Jim Wales]] revealed, back in 2005, 50 percent of all Wikipedia edits were made by just 0.7 percent of users; 75 percent of all articles were written by less than 2 percent of the user base. These numbers reveal that the active Wikipedia community is a lot smaller than you might think. It's understandable, then, for this active group to be somewhat self-centered, and not always accommodating to new or casual users.
**Michael Miller, in ''Sam's Teach Yourself Wikipedia in 10 Minutes'' (2010), p. 163 {{ISBN|978-0-672-33123-7}}

====2011====
* Concerns among the academic community about the reliability of information from Wikipedia are unlikely to ever be fully alleviated, but this has never been Wikipedia's fundamental goal. Much greater speed in adding and updating information, and involvement of the many rather than the few, have always been seen as ample compensation for any inaccuracies that emerge in the initial posting of entries. Wikipedia, like [[w:The Glass Bead Game|Castalia]], is a flawed ideal but it is, as far as can reasonably be predicted, here to stay.
**Peter Roberts & [[w:Michael Adrian Peters|Michael A. Peters]], [http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/7374/12629360_From%20Castalia%20to%20Wikipedia.pdf?sequence=1 From Castalia to Wikipedia], in ''E-Learning and Digital Media'', vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 36-46 (2011)

* Intuitively [students] are using Wikipedia as one of those [new] tools, creating a new layer of information-filtering to help orient them in the early stages of serious research. As a result, Wikipedia's role as a bridge to the next layer of academic resources is growing stronger.
** Casper Grathwohl, [http://chronicle.com/article/Wikipedia-Comes-of-Age/125899?cid=trend_right_t Wikipedia Comes of Age], ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' (7 January 2011)

*America's daily political vitriol is an undeniable fact. Against that depressing background, it is good to be able to celebrate an American invention which, for all its faults, tries to spread around the world a combination of unpaid idealism, knowledge and stubborn civility.
**[[w:Timothy Garton Ash|Timothy Garton Ash]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/12/wikipedia-us-pioneer-global-idealism "We've seen America's vitriol. Now let's salute Wikipedia, a US pioneer of global civility,"] ''The Guardian'' (12 January 2011); and [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0114-gartonash-wikipedia-20110114,0,2209707.story "Look it up: Wikipedia is turning 10,"] ''The Los Angeles Times'' (14 January 2011).

*It can be stunningly good on obscure corners of popular culture, and strikingly weak on mainstream matters.
**Timothy Garton Ash, "We've seen America's vitriol. Now let's salute Wikipedia, a US pioneer of global civility", ''The Guardian'' (12 January 2011)

*The kind of social production that Wikipedia represents has turned from a laughable utopia to a practical reality. That's the biggest gift that Wikipedia has given to us – a vision of practical utopia that allows us to harness the more sociable, human aspects of who we are to effective collective action.
**[[w:Yochai Benkler|Yochai Benkler]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

*Wikipedia underscores an evolutionary lesson: We've always gotten farther as a species collaborating than going it alone. ... In the past, the groups that cooperated best lived longer and had more kids – and we inherited those tendencies. Groups would correct cheaters (people who didn't share info or goods) through social pressure. So Wikipedia is like humanity's social nature writ large electronically, complete with ongoing disputes and corrections.
**[[w:Mariette DiChristina|Mariette DiChristina]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

*The generation of an infinite number of bogusly 'objective' sentences in an English of agonizing patchwork [[mediocrity]] is no cause for celebration, even if it eventually amounts to a [[Jorge Luis Borges|Borgesian]] paraphrase of our entire universe. ... I liked the internet better before. The mistakes had flavor, passion, transparent purpose.
**[[w:Jonathan Lethem|Jonathan Lethem]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

*The fundamental flaw in the way Wikipedians think about what they do is that they are entirely absorbed in rules and procedures and arguing fine points with one another and earning merit points; it has all the flavour, as has been suggested before, of a great online game. Users – the ostensible audience – are hardly considered.
**[[w:Robert McHenry|Robert McHenry]], [http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/13/wikipedia-viewpoints?page=all "Viewpoints: what the world thinks of Wikipedia,"] ''Wired.co.uk'' (13 January 2011)

*An authority isn't a person or institution who is always right – ain't no such animal. An authority is a person or institution who has a process for lowering the likelihood that they are wrong to acceptably low levels. ... And this is what I think is really worth celebrating as Wikipedia begins its second decade. It took one of the best ideas of the last 500 years – [[peer review]] – and expanded its field of operation so dramatically that it changed the way authority is configured.
**[[Clay Shirky]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

*Warm, kindly, humane Wikipedia didn't grow up in today's Internet. Now it's like a hothouse orchid the size of a barn.
**[[Bruce Sterling]], [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/all-star-thinkers-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69523/ "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary",] ''The Atlantic'' (13 January 2011)

* The difference between Wikipedia and other editorially created products is that Wikipedians are not professionals, they are only asked to bring what they know. Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don't benefit from their crumb.
** [[w:Sue Gardner|Sue Gardner]], as quoted in [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List"] by Noam Cohenjan, ''New York Times'' (30 January 2011)

*Every single day for the last 10 years Wikipedia has got better because someone – several million someones in all – decided to make it better. ... Wikipedia is best understood not as a product with an organisation behind it, but as an activity that happens to leave an encyclopedia in its wake.
**[[Clay Shirky]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/14/wikipedia-unplanned-miracle-10-years "Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle,"] ''The Guardian'' (14 February 2011)

*Watching [[pornography]] [...] is like going to a Wikipedia page. You search for a specific thing, a specific feeling, a specific result, and that's exactly what you find.
**[[w:Meg Wolitzer|Meg Wolitzer]], "[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/fashion/17Cultural.html The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral]", ''New York Times'' (15 April 2011)

* Wikipedia was an idea whose time had come on an information-driven net whose consumers couldn't wait for the slow workings of expertise or the cost of proprietary content: a free encyclopedia written by anonymous users supposedly striving for an “unbiased” perspective. ... Wikipedia in practice has strayed from these utopian ideas because of the ease with which political and social bias trumps altruism. ... Finding examples of Wikipedia's bias is not difficult. One need only compare the entries of figures who do the same thing but from opposite sides of the political spectrum.
** David Swindle in [https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/102601/how-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1-david-swindle How the left conquered Wikipedia, Part 1], ''FrontPage Mag'' (22 August 2011)

* I am astonished at the ethical blindness of Bell Pottinger's reaction. That their strongest true response is they didn't break the law tells a lot about their view of the world, I'm afraid.
**[[Jimmy Wales]] on [[w:Bell Pottinger|Bell Pottinger]]'s admission of paid editing, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wikipedia-founder-attacks-bell-pottinger-for-ethical-blindness-6273836.html Wikipedia founder attacks Bell Pottinger for 'ethical blindness'], ''Independent'' (8 December 2011)

====2012====

* But the blot on the encyclopedia's fair name is not just in the wrongness of the statement, but in its partisan and non-encyclopedic nature.... If Wikipedia wants to live up to its promise of being a reliable encyclopedic source, it will strike this and all sentences resembling it from its article on me. At most, it can use me as an example of how it was fooled by some of its all-too-partisan collaborators. Speaking of whom: the history page accompanying my page proves forever that some Wikipedia collaborators wanted to inflict on me the maximum harm possible, an attitude incompatible with work for an encyclopedia. Shouldn't Wikipedia fire them and wipe out everything they wrote? Of course they can still contribute blogs and columns, by preference under their own full names, but they have proven themselves not to be encyclopedic authorities...
** Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012)

*We don't want Wikipedia to be just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica: We want it to have 55 times as many entries, present contentious debates fairly, and reflect brand new scholarly research, all while being edited and overseen primarily by volunteers.
**Rebecca J. Rosen, "[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/does-wikipedia-have-an-accuracy-problem/253216/ Does Wikipedia Have an Accuracy Problem?]", ''The Atlantic'' (16 February 2012)

*Despite being staffed entirely by an army of volunteers, Wikipedia – which is not, strictly speaking, a news site – is keeping pace with conventional media outlets. Official results make their way to athletes' Wikipedia pages within hours, and sometimes minutes, of their finish. With dedicated editors working 24/7, Wikipedia pages are proving to be faster, leaner and more popular alternatives to traditional reporting.
**Brian Mossop, [http://www.wired.com/2012/08/how-wikipedia-won-olympic-gold/ "How Wikipedia won Olympic Gold"], wired.com (10 August 2012)

*Wikipedia, as you well know, is a fraudulent encyclopedia. It's sort of invented. And we all go to it. The entry under Michael Savage – I have one person who keeps trying to correct the truth. But the soviets, that is the communists, that is the liberals, that is the democrats, have at least ninety-nine people who attack my site, every time he makes a correction. For example, when he reenters that Michael Savage single-handedly stopped the Dubai Ports Deal? They take it out of there. They don't want anyone to know it. In other words, they revise my history, the way the soviets did to individuals that they wanted to destroy in their country. Now you understand why I'm not allowed on any television station. Why Michael Savage is an unknown individual in America, except to its millions of listeners. And why this show is number two on the Internet and radio. And why I have six best sellers in a row. Because somehow the truth is getting out. But I'm warning you about Wikipedia. If Wikipedia doesn't stop these ninety-nine democrat liberal soviets from modifying things that are true, then how could you rely upon a website that's so fraudulent? You can't. You can't! But I can't fight every battle every day, you understand that?
** [[Michael Savage]], ''[[:w:The Savage Nation|The Savage Nation]]'' (7 September 2012)

* Wikipedians [...] act as de facto topic moderators, they often end up being biased and frequently quirky. ... Articles are often edited with the sensibility of adolescent too-clever-by-half males[, which] describes a lot of Wikipedians.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [https://www.quora.com/What-are-Wikipedias-flaws What are Wikipedia's flaws?], ''Quora'' (2 November 2012)

====2013====
* It is partly a product of history, where we came from in the early days. We were really a child of the [[w:Dot-com bubble|dot-com crash]]. There was no investment money. We were just a group of people on the internet trying to do something cool. A lot of the volunteers wanted to put it into the non-profit [Wikimedia Foundation] – made sense to me.
** [[Jimmy Wales]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hogrhfS8Tws Exclusive interview with Jimmy Wales-Founder of Wikipedia], ''Corporate Valley'' (27 March 2013)

* The site I avoid at all cost is Wikipedia, which for many subjects I've found to be a trove of misinformation. I don't even have any desire to read my own Wikipedia article.
** Gwenda Bond, [http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/56795-the-changing-world-of-reference-focus-on-reference-2012.html The Changing World of Reference: Focus on Reference 2013], ''Publishers Weekly'' (12 April 2013)

* It all started one night when writer [[Amanda Filipacchi]] was browsing through Wikipedia and noticed an absence of women under the category "American novelists." At first, she thought the female writers being moved off the page were not important enough to be on it. But then she discovered some obscure male novelists were still listed, while some well-known women were not.
** '''[https://www.npr.org/2013/04/29/179850435/what-s-in-a-category-women-novelists-spark-wiki-controversy What's In A Category? 'Women Novelists' Sparks Wiki-Controversy]''' (April 29, 2013)

* As they say, [[history]] is written by the victorious Wikipedia editors.
** Marya Hannun, "[http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/07/the_wikipedia_war_over_egypts_coup The Wikipedia War Over Egypt's 'Coup']", ''FP Passport'' (7 July 2013)

* Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered. ...less than 5% of all languages can still ascend to the digital realm. We present evidence of a massive die-off caused by the digital divide. ... To summarize a key result of this study...: No wikipedia, no ascent.
** [[w:András Kornai|András Kornai]], [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0077056 Digital Language Death], ''PLoS ONE 8(10)'' (22 October 2013)

* It rarely tries new things in the hope of luring visitors; in fact, it has changed little in a decade.
** Tom Simonite, [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/ The Decline of Wikipedia], ''MIT Technology Review'' (22 October 2013)

====2014====

* Beneath its reasonably serene surface, the website can be as ugly and bitter as [[4chan]] and as mind-numbingly bureaucratic as a [[Kafka]] story. And it can be particularly unwelcoming to women.
*The problem instead stems from the fact that administrators and longtime editors have developed a fortress mentality in which they see new editors as dangerous intruders who will wreck their beautiful encyclopedia, and thus antagonize and even persecute them.
* We can learn a lot from Wikipedia about Internet governance and collective knowledge-building. It’s ultimately up to the site’s editors to choose to learn to temper their fortress mentality, get more outside eyes and ears, listen to the most moderate and reflective among them, and perhaps even entertain the idea that they might sometimes be wrong. Wikipedia’s future may depend on it.
*Wikipedia is amazing. But it’s become a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess.
*Last week, Wikipedia’s highest court, the Arbitration Committee, composed of 12 elected volunteers who serve one- or two-year terms, handed down a decision in a controversial case having to do with the site’s self-formed Gender Gap Task Force, the goal of which is to increase female participation on Wikipedia from its current 10 percent to 25 percent by the end of next year. The dispute, which involved ongoing hostility from a handful of prickly longtime editors, had simmered for at least 18 months. In the end, the only woman in the argument, pro-GGTF libertarian feminist Carol Moore, was indefinitely banned from all of Wikipedia over her uncivil comments toward a group of male editors, whom she at one point dubbed “the Manchester Gangbangers and their cronies/minions.”
**Encyclopedia Frown, By David Auerbach, Dec 11, 2014 [https://slate.com/technology/2014/12/wikipedia-editing-disputes-the-crowdsourced-encyclopedia-has-become-a-rancorous-sexist-mess.html ''Slate'']

*Dealing with the Wikipedians is like walking into a mental hospital: the floors are carpeted, the walls are nicely padded, but you know there's a pretty good chance at any given moment one of the inmates will pick up a knife.
**Anonymous Wiki-PR client, cited by Judith-Newman in [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/fashion/Wikipedia-Judith-Newman.html?_r=0 Wikipedia-Mania], ''New York Times'' (9 January 2014)

*Every single person who signed this petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about what it means to be honest, factual, truthful. Wikipedia's policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals - that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately. What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse".
** Jimmy Wales on 23 March 2014, answering 7,790+ persons who objected to Wikipedia's coverage of "holistic approaches to healing", as quoted by Alexandra Sifferlin in [http://time.com/36938/wikipedia-founder-sticks-it-to-lunatic-holistic-healers/ Wikipedia Founder Sticks It To 'Lunatic' Holistic Healers], ''Time'' (25 March 2014)

* Today, this [[democratic]] [[federation]] [Wikimedia] controls a large proportion of the sum of human knowledge, largely displacing the former [[Britannica]] [[Empire]] which had once stretched from A to {{w|Zymotic Diseases}}.
**[https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Joke_articles/Wikipedia W!k!ped!a travel guide] April 1, 2014

* ...when I used to teach kids, there was a fierce debate between teachers on the pro versus the anti Wikipedia side, and I always came down very strongly on the pro side, and I told my students if they were researching something for me – like Wikipedia is totally OK. Copy and pasting from Wikipedia is not, but there is no place to get a better overview from things. ... it all depends on what do you need, and if you just want to check some quick fact about something, Wikipedia is totally reliable. Now there's reasons why you can't cite it as a source, but ignoring that for the time being, Wikipedia for a huge number of people's needs is totally fine. ... the thing that is disturbing is the number times that that source link does not go anywhere, or, I have found some times where the context of the source link says something that is completely contrary to the feeling that you got from the Wikipedia page itself ...
** [[w:CGP Grey|CGP Grey]] from 31:05 in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGa3ah03uBI H.I. #1: Being Wrong on The Internet], ''Hello Internet'' on ''YouTube'' (30 April 2014)

* You'd be amazed at the number of times I've been with top professors in the field and I've asked them a question and they've said, 'I'm not too sure about that, let me check', and gone straight to Wikipedia.
** [[w:Brady Haran|Brady Haran]] from 31:30 in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGa3ah03uBI H.I. #1: Being Wrong on The Internet], ''Hello Internet'' on ''YouTube'' (30 April 2014)

*With such a massive amount of rules and regulations to adhere to, how is it not absolutely deterring for newcomers to join Wikipedia? Most likely, because they do not even know these rules exist. Counter-intuitive as it may sound, in spite of all the regulations, it is perfectly fine and acceptable to just use common sense when editing Wikipedia, relying on one's best judgment on how to make it a better encyclopedia. In fact, one of the Wikipedia policies goes even further and states that “If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it,” and one of the five pillars of Wikipedia claims that “Wikipedia has policies and guidelines, but they are not carved in stone; their content and interpretation can evolve over time. Their principles and spirit matter more than their literal wording, and sometimes improving Wikipedia requires making an exception.” In a similar spirit, there is a rule stating that instruction creep should be avoided and that pettifogging is not welcome. One policy, which describes what Wikipedia is not, insists that Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy.
** [[w:Dariusz Jemielniak|Dariusz Jemielniak]], [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/06/wikipedia_s_bureaucracy_problem_and_how_to_fix_it.html "The Unbearable Bureaucracy of Wikipedia"] in ''Slate'' (22 June 2014)

* Whether or not ''Wikipedia'' has managed to attain the authority level of traditional encyclopaedias, it has undoubtedly become a model of what the collaborative Internet community can and cannot do.
**The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, "[http://www.britannica.com/topic/Wikipedia Wikipedia]", ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (28 October 2014)

*Most have simply washed their hands of the problem, claiming that the bigotry or bias on Wikipedia is just an unfortunate side-effect that we have to accept. But this is not a trivial unintended consequence of an open source system; bias goes against the very principle of Wikipedia and must be addressed. I have to deal with this bias and misinformation every time a journalist interviews me and references my Wikipedia article. I need to spend the first 30 minutes of interviews to correct all the misleading information from my Wikipedia article... Most of the skeptic editors on my article believe me to be a very dangerous man — and believe that it is Wikipedia's responsibility to warn the world of how dangerous my ideas are.
**Deepak Chopra, 05/15/2014 [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wikipedia-a-new-perspecti_b_5332504 Wikipedia, A New Perspective on an Old Problem]

* The prime agent of this change is a development that nobody (save perhaps [[Douglas Adams]], author of ''The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy'') would have predicted.<ref>“Most of the actual work got done by any passing stranger who happened to wander into the empty offices of an afternoon and saw something worth doing.” Douglas Adams, ''Life, the Universe and Everything'' in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts]]'' (Pan, 1992)</ref> It is called Wikipedia—an online encyclopedia collectively produced and edited by 'amateurs' who have created what is effectively the greatest reference work the world has yet produced.
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:* [[w:John Naughton|John Naughton]] in: ''From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet'', Quercus, 2014, Chapter 3, page 65 (ISBN 9781623650629). First published in 2012.

====2015====
* And then there's Wikipedia – astroturf's dream come true. Billed as the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, the reality can't be more different. Anonymous Wikipedia editors control and co-opt pages on behalf of special interests. They forbid and reverse edits that go against their agenda. They skew and delete information, in blatant violation of Wikipedia's own established policies, with impunity – always superior to the poor schleps who actually believe anyone can edit Wikipedia, only to discover they're barred from correcting even the simplest factual inaccuracies. Try adding a footnoted fact, or correcting a factual error on one of these monitored Wikipedia pages, then poof! Sometimes within a matter of seconds you'll find your edit is reversed.
** [[w:Sharyl Attkisson|Sharyl Attkisson]] in her TEDxUniversityofNevada talk "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU Astroturf and manipulation of media messages]", published 6 February 2015 on ''YouTube'', quoted by Sarah Chaffee in [https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/wikipedia-and-astroturf/ ''Wikipedia'' and “Astroturf”], ''Evolution News'', 30 November 2017

* Could the pressure from mobile, and the internal tensions, tear Wikipedia apart? A world without it seems unimaginable, but consider the fate of other online communities. ... The real challenges for Wikipedia are to resolve the governance disputes – the tensions among foundation employees, longtime editors trying to protect their prerogatives, and new volunteers trying to break in – and to design a mobile-oriented editing environment. ... The worst scenario is an end to Wikipedia, not with a bang but with a whimper: a long, slow decline in participation, accuracy and usefulness that is not quite dramatic enough to jolt the community into making meaningful reforms. No effort in history has gotten so much information at so little cost into the hands of so many – a feat made all the more remarkable by the absence of profit and owners. In an age of Internet giants, this most selfless of websites is worth saving.
** [[Andrew Lih]], ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html Can Wikipedia Survive?]'', ''{{w|The New York Times}}'' (20 June 2015)

* When Wikipedia launched, it raised immediate concerns about the sanctity of accreditation – could knowledge be created by amateurs? But its steady rise in utility meant that, in time, nearly everyone made their peace with it – some more happily than others.
**Paul Ford, "[https://newrepublic.com/article/122954/chaotic-wisdom-wikipedia-paragraphs The Chaotic Wisdom of Wikipedia Paragraphs]", ''New Republic'' (8 October 2015)

* The Wikimedia Foundation has gotten far off track. Every year, it builds its campaign around a budget many millions larger than the year before.
**Pete Forsyth (Wikipedia consultant and former member of Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising team) in [http://enterprise.vnews.com/2015/12/06/wikipedia-has-lots-of-money/ Wikipedia Has Lots of Money], by Caitlin Dewey, ''The Washington Post'' (6 December 2015)

* If you're selling to customers that you're familiar and competent with new media, and you can't manage something like Wikipedia, that's a failure.
**Pete Forsyth of Wiki Strategies, [http://observer.com/2015/12/sunshine-sachs-wikipedia-whitewash/ The Big Oops: Sunshine Sachs' Wikipedia Whitewash], ''Observer News'' (17 December 2015)

*It is clear that our deep state is obsessed with controlling information and moulding it to fit its narrative. On Wikipedia, a number of 'users' and 'editors' have been planted to ensure that only Pakistan's official stance or the Nazaria-e-Pakistan [ideology of Pakistan] is reflected in the pages on Pakistan. Consequently, the pages on Pakistan's history read like a secondary school Pakistan Studies textbook... All alternative views on Pakistan's constitution, role of religion and federalism are stifled by this group...If one were to venture a guess it would be that these manipulators of the Pakistani narrative on sites like Wikipedia and others are operating out of some nondescript building in Islamabad's G sectors [where Pakistani intelligence agencies are located].
**Yasser Latif Hamdani, Daily Times, "Manipulating the Pakistani narrative" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-18/In_the_media#Are_Pakistan_articles_being_manipulated.3]

====2016====
[[File:India Nigeria Locator.png|thumb|right|In India and Nigeria, over 75% of participants said they had never heard of Wikipedia. ~ Zachary McCune (Wikimedia Foundation)]]
* A lot of students write a paper for a class, and eventually it winds up in the dustbin. When students write an article for Wikipedia, they have to learn to collaborate, to research and to write for a popular audience, and their work will benefit the millions of people using the site.
**[[w:How Wikipedia Works|Phoebe Ayers]], [http://news.mit.edu/2016/phoebe-ayers-wikipedia-erasmus-prize-0105 MIT Libraries' Phoebe Ayers accepts Erasmus Prize on behalf of Wikipedia], ''MIT News'' (5 January 2016)

* Linux and Wikipedia (as well as other, less known achievements) show unambiguously that the idea of requiring any kind of payment for great tools, culture, or knowledge to come into being is an utter falsehood.
** [[w:Rick Falkvinge|Rick Falkvinge]], [https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-industry-rhetoric-ignores-the-existence-of-linux-and-wikipedia-011016/ Copyright industry rhetoric ignores the existence of Linux and Wikipedia], ''TorrentFreak'' (10 January 2016)

* For a website with no paid writing staff that is still overcoming an out-of-date reputation for inaccuracy, Wikipedia punches above its weight. ...it is especially powerful in an election season: On the day of the 2012 election, Barack Obama's and Mitt Romney's entries alone were read 1.6 million times. [...] you can see a virtual version of the presidential race playing out every day.
** Jeremy B. Merrill, [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/us/politics/wikipedia-donald-trump-2016-election.html?_r=0 "On Wikipedia, Donald Trump Reigns and Facts Are Open to Debate"] (1 February 2016)

* It turns out there are people, typically they're probably unemployed kids with student debt you know that are stuck in their parents' basement with Cheetos stains on their t-shirts that haven't been able to get their first job so what they do is they play games to see how long they can edit Wikipedia pages in order to have games with their friends all around the world. So my advice to you is, if you do have a Wikipedia page, check it once in a while...
** {{cite web | author = [[w:Jeb Bush|Jeb Bush]] | date = 8 February 2016 | title= Jeb Bush Remarks in Nashua, New Hampshire | url = http://www.c-span.org/video/?404395-1/jeb-bush-remarks-nashua-new-hampshire | work = C-SPAN }}

* ... what Wikipedia and Facebook teach us is that social models of content curation and collaboration '''''do''''' scale. ...organisations will increasingly need to crowd-source a lot of their meta-data. ... In other words, [organisations] will need to build a Corporate Data Catalogue that looks and feels a lot like Wikipedia, but which borrows the “like” and “share” concepts from Facebook.
** Martin Willcox, [http://www.forbes.com/sites/teradata/2016/03/11/what-enterprise-information-management-can-learn-from-facebook-and-wikipedia/#694af7c027e4 What Enterprise Information Management Can Learn From Facebook And Wikipedia], ''Forbes / Business'' (11 March 2016)

* Wikipedia is the most comprehensive compendium of up-to-date knowledge assembled at gargantuan scale almost entirely by volunteers. It works, too, because they form a huge community that for reasons of camaraderie, rivalry, vanity, purity and sometimes just deep suspicion constantly monitor and vet one another's work. There are flaws in the process, but each entry is a living organism that matures and self-corrects over time.
** [[w:Bob Garfield|Bob Garfield]], [http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/271066/revenue-who-needs-revenue.html Revenue? Who Needs Revenue?], ''Garfield at Large'', ''MediaPost'' (14 March 2016)

* Wikipedia is an exceptional case. If we can figure out how it becomes sustainable, that would be a major contribution. Because it's a new way of managing human resources.
** Aleksi Aaltonen of [[w:Warwick Business School|Warwick Business School]], in [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/wikipedia-cumulative-growth-effect/473994/ Wikipedia and the Momentum of Tiny Edits], by ''Adrienne Lafrance'', ''[[w:The Atlantic|The Atlantic]]'' (16 March 2016)

* We thought, let's not fight Wikipedia, but instead teach students to use it better.
** Ashley Downs, librarian at [[w:Cornell University Library|Mann Library]], in [http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/03/cornell-takes-big-red-pen-wikipedia-life-sciences-content Cornell takes big red pen to Wikipedia life sciences content], by Amruta Byatnal, CornellChronicle (22 March 2016)

* About a decade ago I migrated into community work from a non-community background. This is the guide I wish I had read back then. When I say community work, I am talking about stuff like Wikipedia: large distributed groups of people doing something together, usually online, often unpaid. Usually international, often nerdy, often (but not always) FLOSS or FLOSS-adjacent.
** [[Sue Gardner]] [https://suegardner.org A little guide to working with online communities] March 21, 2016

* ...people have talked about [[:w:Open-source governance|open politics]] and things like that, and its really hard sometimes to say that yes, you can apply the same principles in some other areas...  So, obviously open source in science is making a comeback. Science was there first. But then science ended up by being pretty closed with very expensive journals and some of that going on. And open source is making a comeback in science with things like arXiv and open journals. Wikipedia changed the world too. ... So there are other examples. I am sure there are more to come. ... It is up to you guys to make them.
** [[Linus Torvalds]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8NPllzkFhE interview with TED curator Chris Anderson], ''TED Talks'' (c. 3 May 2016)

* Like many university lecturers, I used to warn my own students off using Wikipedia (as pointless an injunction as telling them not to use Google, or not to leave their essay to the last minute). I finally gave up doing so about three years ago,...
** Peter Thonemann, [http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/encyclopedic-knowledge/ The all-conquering Wikipedia?], ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (25 May 2016)

* Two years before Wikipedia, I had the dream, the vision, of a free encyclopedia written by volunteers in all the languages of the world. This inspiration came to me from watching the growth of free software, [[w:Open-source software|open-source software]], as most people know it. And watching programmers coming together and giving away their work for free online.
** Jimmy Wales interviewed by Joe Pascal, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4_G9Z40GIE Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales on Creating Wikipedia], ''YouTube'' (June 2016)

* In India and Nigeria, over 75% of participants said they had never heard of Wikipedia.
** Zachary McCune (Wikimedia Foundation), [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/11/discovering-wikipedia/ People all over the world have yet to discover Wikipedia. We went to them to find out why.], ''Wikimedia blog'' (11 October 2016)

* Progress has been slow, but several independent ventures show how the attitudes of major players in the biomedical ecosystem are beginning to shift further, and take Wikipedia more seriously.
** Thomas Shafee, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-conversation-global/wikipedia-is-already-the_b_12538740.html Wikipedia is already the world's ‘Dr Google' - it's time for doctors and researchers to make it better], The Blog, ''Huffington Post'' (18 October 2016)

* Regardless, this new research shows that Wikipedia editors of different opinions have strived for consensus over time. That's opposed to Facebook or Twitter, where people are siloed into their own self-reinforcing echo chambers. ... Consider this a version of the “miracle of aggregation” – that large groups of people are able to act rationally and solve problems despite having vastly different interests.
** Robert Gebelhoff, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/10/19/science-shows-wikipedia-is-the-best-part-of-the-internet/?utm_term=.f2174a634db8 Science shows Wikipedia is the best part of the Internet], ''The Washington Post'' (19 October 2016)

====2017====
[[File:Larry Sanger cropped.jpg|thumb|right|As the originator of [the neutrality policy,] I completely despair of persuading Wikipedians of the error of their ways.
~ [[Larry Sanger]] ]]
* ...phishing on Wikipedia is effective enough – and lucrative enough – to retain the interest of the dark net's richest dwellers. ... Although Wikipedia's editors work to root out the false links, it's a slow and never-ending fight.
** Patrick O'Neill, [https://www.cyberscoop.com/dark-net-crooks-wage-easy-profitable-phishing-war-wikipedia/ Dark net crooks wage an easy and profitable phishing scheme on Wikipedia], ''Cyberscoop'' (27 January 2017)

* The researchers [...] found that the Wikipedia entries were written at a much higher reading level compared with the medication guides and well above the average consumer reading level, which could contribute to patient misunderstanding of medication information. ... The study authors conclude that as the public use of Wikipedia increases, the need for health care professionals and the pharmaceutical industry to actively educate and provide reliable resources to patients remains important.
** Mary Warner, [https://www.pharmacist.com/article/japha-study-shows-incomplete-and-inaccurate-patient-drug-information-wikipedia JAPhA study shows incomplete and inaccurate patient drug information on Wikipedia], pharmacist.com (30 January 2017)

* Page views of Wikipedia are immense compared with views of primary literature articles. As a result, if you edit a page to include results from your research, your audience will likely expand by at least an order of magnitude.
** Evan B. Goldstein, [https://eos.org/opinions/three-reasons-why-earth-scientists-should-edit-wikipedia Three Reasons Why Earth Scientists Should Edit Wikipedia], eos.org (27 January 2017)

* For the record the Daily Mail banned all its journalists from using Wikipedia as a sole source in 2014 because of its unreliability.
** Spokesman for Mail Newspapers, [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source], by Jasper Jackson, ''The Guardian'' (8 February 2017)

* The fate that befell the Mail happened for one reason, and one reason alone: it's terrible, and by banning it, Wikipedia sends a message that it values its credibility.
** Matthew Hughes, [https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/02/09/wikipedia-just-banned-contributors-citing-daily-mail-source/ Wikipedia just banned contributors from citing the Daily Mail as a source], ''Insider'' (10 February 2017)

* Wikipedians this week added greatly to the amusement of the internet after around 40 contributors loftily declared that the Daily Mail was not a reliable source for citations. Much public hilarity ensued – for the reason that The Mail and Wikipedia are really far more alike than either would care to admit. ... Both can resemble a real chamber of horrors.
** Andrew Orlowski, [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/13/the_mail_vs_wikipedia_more_alike_than_theyd_ever_admit/ The Mail vs Wikipedia: They're more alike than they'd ever admit], ''The Register'' (13 February 2017)

* However clumsy the Youth Parliament's approach to Wikipedia may be, it's still an improvement on a government order issued by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev last August, when he established a working group to study the creation of an all new Russian-engineered Wikipedia clone.
** Kevin Rothrock, [https://globalvoices.org/2017/02/24/russian-government-youth-group-wants-to-make-wikipedia-more-patriotic/ Russian Government Youth Group Wants to Make Wikipedia More Patriotic], ''Global Voices'' (24 February 2017)

* ...for an organisation that calls itself a ‘small non-profit' business and begs users for donations (‘the price of a cup of coffee') to keep it afloat, it enjoys bulging cash reserves. The Foundation's accounts show it has assets of more than $90 million (£73 million), and spent $31 million (£25 million) in salaries last year, up from $26 million (£21 million) the year before. ... Are these amounts not excessive?
** Guy Adams, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4280502/Anonymous-Wikipedia-activists-promote-warped-agenda.html The making of a Wiki-Lie: Chilling story of one twisted oddball and a handful of anonymous activists who appointed themselves as censors to promote their own warped agenda on a website that's a byword for inaccuracy], ''The Daily Mail'' (4 March 2017)

* ...this ban has set a dangerous precedent, raising profoundly troubling questions about free speech and censorship in the online era. ...a social media giant whose pages are riddled with inaccuracies, unilaterally deciding, at the request of a handful of people, that a major newspaper is somehow not valid.
** Guy Adams, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4280502/Anonymous-Wikipedia-activists-promote-warped-agenda.html The making of a Wiki-Lie: Chilling story of one twisted oddball and a handful of anonymous activists who appointed themselves as censors to promote their own warped agenda on a website that's a byword for inaccuracy], ''The Daily Mail'' (4 March 2017)

* False information is being disseminated at a far greater rate when it seems to have been vetted by a brand name and Wikipedia's branding is global. It would be ideal if a more credible site like Encyclopedia Britannica or a useful news site like Reuters could be granted the “zero-rate” – but those sites [...] do [not] have the same foundational interest in spreading their content without financial gain that Wikipedia has.
** Jillian Sequeira, [https://lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/technology-blog/wikipedia-zero/ The Strange Case of Wikipedia Zero], ''Law Street'' (5 March 2017)

* Wikipedia, as it is currently run, is simply and literally out of control, and a potential menace to all kinds of institutions and individuals. This is an organisation that – quite scandalously – polices itself, judges itself, and legitimises itself. It is always right because it decides what is right. You are always wrong because it decides what is wrong. ... And it has power without responsibility or accountability. ... It is high time this arrogant, self-admiring, self-regulating, often bullying organisation be placed under the formal supervision of an independent watchdog.
** [[w:Graham McCann|Graham McCann]], [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4307480/Writers-reveal-Wikipedia-s-insidious-Kafkaesque-control.html WIKI-LIES (Cont...) It's the self-policing web encyclopaedia that has banned the Mail as a source. But as these deeply disturbing accounts reveal, its pages are littered with inaccuracies - and God help the victims who dare complain], ''Daily Mail'' (13 March 2017)

* I fear we are moving beyond a natural skepticism regarding expert claims to the death of the ideal of expertise itself: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laypeople, teachers and students, knowers and wonderers – in other words, between those with achievement in an area and those with none.
** [[w:Tom Nichols (academic)|Tom Nichols]] in [https://fbkfinanzwirtschaft.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/how-america-lost-faith-in-expertise-and-why-thats-a-giant-problem/ How America Lost Faith in Expertise – And Why That's a Giant Problem], ''Foreign Affairs'' (March/April 2017)

* Despite being an American-born site, its popularity and utility have expanded around the world since its foundation in 2001.
** Maria Barrios, [http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2017/05/11/a-world-without-wikipedia/ A world without Wikipedia?], ''TheUpComing'' (11 May 2017)

* Wikipedia has often been treated by news organizations like the black sheep of the information business. ... But as trust in the media wanes and news organizations struggle to engage with readers, Wikipedia has emerged as a leader in transparency and user growth...
** Rebecca Iannucci, [https://www.poynter.org/2017/what-can-fact-checkers-learn-from-wikipedia-we-asked-the-boss-of-its-nonprofit-owner/465634/ What can fact-checkers learn from Wikipedia? We asked the boss of its nonprofit owner], ''Poynter'' (6 July 2017)

* The cyber age has tremendous potential, as indicated by Wikipedia. But if it bypasses space and time where there's just this obsession with the present – this neglect of our heritage and history – then our world will change.
** [[w:Anthony Kennedy|Anthony Kennedy]] on 24 July 2017 at the [http://www.salzburgglobal.org/topics/article/justice-anthony-kennedy-speaks-at-salzburg-academy-on-media-and-global-change.html Salzburg Global Seminar], Austria, ''Salzburg Academy of Media and Global Change'' (25 July 2017)

* For the benefit of Wales as a nation, it is crucial that Wikipedia contains a wealth of knowledge about its history and culture and that the range of articles on the [[w:Welsh Wikipedia|Welsh language Wicipedia]] covers the widest possible range of subjects.
** Pedr ap Llwyd, director of collections and public programmes at [[w:National Library of Wales|National Library of Wales]], in [http://businessnewswales.com/uk-first-national-library-wales-appoints-wikimedian/ UK First as National Library of Wales Appoints Wikimedian] by Dan Foulkes, ''BusinessNewsWales'' (8 August 2017)

* Unlike some commercial companies, Wikimedia has no incentive to cave into authoritarian demands to self-censor.
** John Lubbock (Wikimedia Foundation), [https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/john-lubbock/authoritarian-governments-hate-wikipedia-which-is-exactly-why-you-should-get-involved Authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia, which is why you should get involved], ''openDemocracy'' (11 August 2017)

* The online crowd-sourced encyclopedia is perceived as increasingly trustworthy, [...] with immediate impacts on scientific literacy.
** Thomas Shafee, et al. [http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6351/557.2/tab-pdf Academics can help shape Wikipedia], ''Science'', Vol. 357, Issue 6351, pp. 557-558 (11 August 2017)

* Wikipedia, like other new, non-commercial information technologies, can be used to open new public spaces for [indigenous] languages, and gradually recover the ground lost to more dominant languages. ... However, the representation of indigenous languages on the platform is very low,... [In [[:w:Latin America|Latin America]] indigenous communities speak 420 different languages.] To date, only four official indigenous-language versions are represented: [[:w:Quechuan languages|Quechua]] ..., [[:w:Nahuatl|Náhuatl]] ..., [[:w:Aymara language|Aymara]] ... and [[:w:Guarani language|Guaraní]].
** Rodrigo Pérez, [https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2017/09/06/the-prospects-for-the-sum-of-all-human-knowledge-in-wikipedia-in-indigenous-languages/ The Prospects for the Sum of All Human Knowledge in Wikipedia in Indigenous Languages], ''Global Voices'' – ''RisingVoices'' (6 September 2017)

* As the originator of and the first person to elaborate [[w:Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|Wikipedia's neutrality policy]], and as an [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] who believes [[intelligent design]] to be completely wrong, I just have to say that this article is appallingly biased. ... I'm not here to argue the point, as I completely despair of persuading Wikipedians of the error of their ways.
** [[Larry Sanger]], [[w:Talk:Intelligent_design#My $0.02 on the issue of bias|My $0.02 on the issue of bias]], Wikipedia talk page: [[w:Intelligent design|Intelligent design]] (8 December 2017)

* In many ways Wikipedia pioneered the [fake news] phenomenon, and journalists' lazy reliance on using it as a source helped falsities to propagate on a scale never seen before.
** [[w:Andrew Orlowski|Andrew Orlowski]], [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/12/jimmy_wales_fake_news_keynote/ Why is Wikipedia man Jimbo Wales keynoting a fake news conference?], ''The Register'' (12 December 2017)

* As we are trying to deal with all this terrorism, [Wikipedia] makes us look like we work with terror groups.
** [[w:Ahmet Arslan (politician)|Ahmet Arslan]], Turkish communications minister, explaining the ban on Wikipedia imposed in April 2017, [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/wikipedia-should-blame-itself-for-ban-in-turkey-minister-124352 Wikipedia has itself to blame for ban in Turkey: Minister], ''Hürriyet Daily News'' (18 December 2017)

====2018====
* * But on Wikipedia, as in the real world, the users with the deepest technical knowledge of firearms are also the most fervent gun owners and the most hostile to gun control. For critics, that’s led to a persistent pro-gun bias on the web’s leading source of neutral information at a time when the gun control debate is more heated than ever.
** {{cite news |title=How gun buffs took over Wikipedia’s AR-15 page; After Parkland, gun control information was strangely hard to find |first=Russell |last=Brandom |date=March 6, 2018 |accessdate=March 9, 2018 |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/6/17086794/ar-15-wikipedia-gun-control-parkland-mass-shooting |work=[[w:The Verge|The Verge]] |publisher=[[w:Vox Media|Vox Media]]}}

* Wikipedia is basically a format in which people who hate you can go into your ... , I don't even know what you call these, into the search of your name, and then there I have a profile of sorts, into my profiler page, and poison it. ... "Views on political issues, groups and politicians" – [...] what happened between 2009 and 2017? Well, doesn't matter. ... What was my context for [calling [[Bernie Sanders]] a "radical Marxist who believes in violence"]? They don't even discuss it, the [[w:2017 Congressional baseball shooting|shooting in Alexandria]]. ... [That paragraph] is all mickey mouse stuff. It is cut and paste cherry picking. ... I've written about [progressivism] in great length, but not a word in my "political views". ... Who has a section on "controversial views"? It is as if it is written by ''[[w:Media Matters for America|Media Matters]]''. ... "Levin compared supporters of the [[w:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|Affordable Care Act]] to Nazi [[w:Sturmabteilung|brown shirts]]." ... No I didn't! Completely taken out of context! ... If you want to know about me, you should go as far away from the Wikipedia page as possible... ... What they're supposed to do, if they're a responsible organisation, is to get the basic information on me [...] and lock it so that miscreants and malcontents can't abuse and post it. ... Very, very dishonest information in there. ... The book reviews are scores positive, maybe one or two negative by leftists and so forth. You would have no idea reading their comments about my books on Wikipedia.
** [[w:Mark Levin|Mark Levin]] in [https://soundcloud.com/conservativereview/mark-levin-avoid-wikipedia-like-the-plague Mark Levin: Avoid Wikipedia like the plague], Chris Pandolfo, ''Conservative Review'' (19 January 2018)

* Why is Wikipedia so good? I'm not sure, but part of it is the internal review process started by Jimmy Wales. Other Wikis fail miserably; I no longer look at [[w:WikiAnswers|WikiAnswers]], because I rarely get good help from it. So a publicly edited encyclopedia isn't obviously going to work, but somehow Wikipedia pulled it off.
** [[w:Richard A. Muller|Richard Muller]] in [https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/03/01/im-a-college-professor-and-this-is-why-i-encourage-my-students-to-use-wikipedia/#5e204d527289 I'm A College Professor, And This Is Why I Encourage My Students To Use Wikipedia], Tech / #OnCampus, ''Forbes'' (1 March 2018)

* [[Facebook]]'s introduction of a new feature that uses [Wikipedia] to combat “[[fake news]]” [...] poses arguably the greatest test in years to the volunteer-run online encyclopedia, constituting a massive threat to the internet's largest and ostensibly most trusted source of free knowledge. ... It also highlights the risks posed by Facebook's efforts to seemingly outsource its problems to the online encyclopedia. Indeed, Wikipedia has struggled to defend its standards in the face of its new role as the internet's “good cop.” As more and more tech giants like Facebook and YouTube make use of its content, a new influx of users has flooded the website [–] not all of them well intentioned.
** Omer Benjakob in [https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-breitbart-declares-war-on-wikipedia-in-facebook-s-fight-against-fake-news-1.5991915 Breitbart Declares War on Wikipedia as Encyclopedia Gets Drafted Into Facebook's 'Fake News' Battle], ''Haaretz'' (11 April 2018)

* I'd argue that Wikipedia's biggest asset is its willingness as a community and website to “delete.” It's that simple. If there's bad information, or info that's just useless, Wikipedia's regulatory system has the ability to discard it.
** Brian A. Feldman in [http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/why-wikipedia-works.html Why Wikipedia Works], select/all, ''New York Magazine'' (16 March 2018)

* Communities of so-called “amateur experts” linked together by shared interests are the bread and butter of Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia actively encourages editors to congregate in “projects” and “portals” covering hundreds of articles that all fall under a single broad topic. ... So while it's easy to lament the dangers of the Wikipedia gun lobby, it is important to remember that groups with competing worldviews are what fuel the crowdsourced encyclopedia – where the question of what is true is always secondary to the question of what the community of different users can agree on as being true.
** Omer Benjakob in [https://www.haaretz.com/life/how-firearm-enthusiasts-control-what-you-read-about-guns-on-wikipedia-1.5910470 Gun Enthusiasts Are Waging a War of Attrition on Wikipedia, and It Looks Like They're Winning], ''Haaretz'' (18 March 2018)

* With its nationalist sentiments, factual mistakes, lack of academic references and omitted facts about World War II history, Croatian Wikipedia is not a reliable source, analysts have told BIRN.
** Sven Milekic in [http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/how-croatian-wikipedia-made-a-concentration-camp-disappear-03-23-2018 How Croatian Wikipedia Made a Concentration Camp Disappear], ''BIRN'' (23 March 2018)

* When [people] get their information not from us – but [...] through something like Siri or [...] Alexa – that opportunity to either contribute back as an editor is broken, and that opportunity to contribute, to donate is also broken.
** Lisa Gruwell (Wikimedia's Chief Revenue Officer) in [https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/24/are-corporations-that-use-wikipedia-giving-back/ Are corporations that use wikipedia giving back?], Brian Heater, ''techcrunch.com'' (24 March 2018)

* The [[w:Los Angeles Times|Los Angeles Times]], the [[w:Wall Street Journal|Wall Street Journal]], and the [[w:The New Yorker|New Yorker]] reported incorrectly last month that [[w:Mike Pompeo|Pompeo]] was an Army officer who served in the [[w:Gulf War|1991 Gulf War]]. ... The situation shows how much major media outlets have come to rely on Wikipedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia run by the [[w:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]], a non-profit that employs less than 300 people.
** Heather Timmons & David Yanofsky in [https://qz.com/1258418/mike-pompeos-gulf-war-service-lie-started-on-wikipedia/ A lie about Mike Pompeo's Gulf War service started with an anonymous Wikipedia edit], ''Quartz'' (21 April 2018)

* On January 2, 2018, MBH participant published statistics on peak views of [[Russian]] Wikipedia articles in 2017.

:Each article of the free encyclopedia is visited almost evenly from day to day. Smooth fluctuations are associated with the total traffic to Wikipedia, as well as various global cycles, for example, calendar - annual, weekly and others.
:* [https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Пики_Русской_Википедии_в_2017_году Пики Русской Википедии в 2017 году] (4 января 2018 года)

* ... Wikipedia is just ''one'' type of online community, which appeals to a fairly narrow (geeky, combative male) demographic. And, importantly, it ''doesn't'' appeal to many other demographics. ... if, as inevitably happens in such a place, some people get impatient and upset at [the] unfair treatment, they must tolerate the passive-aggressive condescension of the basement-dwellers who inform them, apparently with no awareness of the ironies involved, that courtesy is an absolute requirement.
** [[Larry Sanger]] in [https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/04/21/wikipedia-co-founders-8000-word-essay-build-better-wikipedia/ Wikipedia co-founder's 8,000-word essay on how to build a better Wikipedia], ''TNW'' (23 April 2018)

* In this era where we've seen the rise of these [[fake news]] websites and so forth, Wikipedia has had almost no problems with this at all. Simply because our community is quite – you know, it's their hobby to debate about the quality of sources, and it's very difficult to fool the Wikipedia community with this.
** [[Jimmy Wales]] in [http://kacu.org/post/wikipedia-founder-says-internet-users-are-adrift-fake-news-era Wikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The 'Fake News' Era], by [[w:Ari Shapiro|Ari Shapiro]], ''kacu.org'' (28 April 2018)

* [Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee], which typically decides matters of user behavior, not content, doesn't lean left or right. Occasionally you could say there are people who are stricter or more lenient in terms of the spirit of the law or letter of the law.
** [[w:Ira Brad Matetsky|Ira Matetsky]], quoted and paraphrased in [https://news.law.fordham.edu/blog/2018/05/07/the-15-people-who-keep-wikipedias-editors-from-killing-each-other/ The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors from Killing Each Other], ''Fordham Law News'' (7 May 2018)

* ... independent bloggers Markus Fiedler and Dirk Pohlmann have found [that Wikipedia's] 'freely editable' model definitely doesn't mean an absence of censorship and biased political activism. ...the online encyclopedia is home to a major edit war where corrections are constantly added, information removed, and value judgements made to fit a specific narrative. ... [An inner circle of manipulators] are referees and players combined into one.
** Fiedler and Pohlmann quoted in [https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201806011065003782-investigation-finds-roots-of-wikipedia-bias/ Like Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: How Public Opinion is Manipulated on Wikipedia], ''sputniknews.com'' (1 June 2018)

* Deeply inappropriate for the European Commission to be lobbying publicly *and* misleading the public in this way. ... the Wikipedia community is not so narrow minded as to let the rest of the Internet suffer just because we are big enough that they try to throw us a bone. Justice matters.
** [[Jimmy Wales]] commenting in two [https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1014131021137285127 tweets] on a tweet from the [[w:European Commission|European Commission]] and the impending EU voting on Articles 11 and 13 of the [[w:Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market|EU directive on copyright]], as quoted in [https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/04/wikipedia-goes-dark-in-spanish-italian-ahead-of-key-eu-vote-on-copyright/ Wikipedia goes dark in Spanish, Italian ahead of key EU vote on copyright] by Natasha Lomas, ''techcrunch.com'' (4 July 2018)

* ...Wikipedia has forced academics to re-examine how they validate sources. We should have been doing that all along. We should have been approaching an ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' article with a certain level of distrust and questioning: What are the biases of people writing this? What are they leaving out? What communities are not included in this conversation?
** Royce Kimmons, assistant professor at Brigham Young University, as quoted by Megan Zahneis in [https://www.chronicle.com/article/Some-Colleges-Cautiously/243968 Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia], ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' (19 July 2018)

* [Wikipedia's] worst failing, much like [[w:Today (BBC Radio 4)|BBC Radio 4's Today]] programme, is to portray subjects that are racked with unresolved controversy as if they were settled. ... and while I was inside it, it was a tiny, infuriating nightmare of [[totalitarianism]]. One day soon, I suspect this particular dream is all too likely to come true in the solid world.
** [[w:Peter Hitchens|Peter Hitchens]] in [https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/war-of-words-my-battle-to-correct-wikipedia/ War of words: my battle to correct Wikipedia], ''The Spectator'' (18 August 2018)

* [YouTube,] a megacorporation with billions of dollars and thousands of brilliant employees is relying on a volunteer-run platform anyone can edit to fact-check information? It is odd. But it's also a validation of Wikipedia's mission and a reminder of its importance.
** [[w:John Naughton|John Naughton]] in [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/02/in-hysterical-world-wikipedia-ray-of-light-truth In a hysterical world, Wikipedia is a ray of light – and that's the truth], ''The Guardian'' (2 September 2018)

* [Wikipedia] is therefore a reflection of the world's biases more than it is a cause of them. ... If journalists, book publishers, scientific researchers, curators, academics, grant-makers and prize-awarding committees don't recognize the work of women, Wikipedia's editors have little foundation on which to build. ... We may not be able to change how society values women, but we can change how women are seen, and ensure that they are seen to begin with.
** [[w:Katherine Maher|Katherine Maher]] in [https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-maher-wikipedia-gender-bias-20181018-story.html Wikipedia mirrors the world's gender biases, it doesn't cause them], ''Los Angeles Times'' (18 October 2018)

* ... debilitating factors – such as excessive bickering and poorly worded arguments – have led to about one-third of RfCs [i.e. Request for Comment deliberation processes] going unresolved. ... the experience of participants and the length of a discussion are strongly predictive of the timely closure of an RfC.
** Rob Matheson paraphrasing Amy X. Zhang and co-authors in [http://news.mit.edu/2018/wikipedia-disputes-unresolved-study-1106 Why some Wikipedia disputes go unresolved], ''MIT News Office'' (6 November 2018)

* Medical images and articles found on Wikipedia may help patients better understand their radiology reports, ... And despite both internal and external metrics concluding Wikipedia's health information to be variable in quality, but continually improving, the authors believe the website's detailed information could pair well with the lay-definitions housed within the PORTER [i.e. Patient-Oriented Radiology Reporter] glossary.
** Matt O'Connor paraphrasing T. Martin-Carreras and C. E. Kahn Jr. in [https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/imaging-informatics/wikipedia-improve-radiology-resources-patients Wikipedia articles, images may improve radiology resources for patients], ''HealthImaging'' (7 November 2018)

* The magnitude of [Wikipedia's visitor] numbers piqued the interest of Matthew Kock, website manager of the prestigious British Museum in London. "I looked at how many [[w:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]] page views there were on Wikipedia... That is perhaps our iconic object, and five times as many people go to the Wikipedia article [...] as to ours." This realization inspired him to propose a novel idea to British Museum administrators – invite a Wikipedia contributor into the institution as the first ever "Wikipedian in Residence" to serve as a liaison within the Museum. Despite his fears about proposing collaboration with unknown and uncredentialled Wikipedia volunteers, [...] he met with enthusiastic interest from numerous departments at the museum.
** [[w:Andrew Lih|Andrew Lih]] in Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge, p. 9, ''American Library Association'' (29 November 2018)

====2019====
* Science Wikipedia pages aren't just for non-experts. Physicists – researchers, professors, and students – use Wikipedia daily. When I need the transition temperature for a Bose-Einstein condensate (prefactor and all), or when I want to learn about the details of an unfamiliar quantum algorithm, Wikipedia is my first stop. ... Despite [this], it is rare for professional physicists to contribute, in part because there are few, if any, professional incentives to do so. ... only a small fraction [of them] have edited even a single Wikipedia page.
** Kaden Hazzard in [https://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2019/01/04/onetopicpages/ Peer-reviewed physics for Wikipedia: PLOS ONE Topic Pages], ''Plos Blogs'' (4 January 2019)

* Many professors are ditching the traditional writing assignment and instead asking students to expand or create a Wikipedia article on the topic.
** Stephen Harrison in [https://www.afr.com/news/economy/how-wikipedia-became-the-responsible-adult-of-the-internet-20190115-h1a2ub How Wikipedia became the responsible adult of the internet], ''Financial Review'' (15 January 2019)

*Like other social media platforms, Wikipedia has evolved into an echo chamber where the user is presented with only one type of content instead of being shown a balanced narrative. This disinformation is powerful since the articles are written in an academic style and users do not see other sources that disagree with the article.... Some editors of Wikipedia are failed academics with demonic energy who wish to conquer anonymously what they were unable to do in their normal careers. And spending much of their working life editing Wikipedia articles and by the use of multiple anonymous handles they have obtained administrative status which entitles them to block opposing views. The anonymous persona of the editors and the low stakes have made Wikipedia politics much more vicious than real politics.
**Subhash Kak, April 9, 2019 [https://medium.com/@subhashkak1/wikipedia-or-trashpedia-4198e2c78e59 Wikipedia or Trashpedia?]

* Wikipedia is not going anywhere. It's definitely part of everyone's life. But the question of accuracy is one of the most important aspects of it. ... Our purpose here is not to evaluate whether Wikipedia is good or bad. ... It's not so much about warning people about what Wikipedia is. It's about showing what it is. ... Librarians are interested in trying to broaden our community's education with information in general, be it digital or otherwise.
** Lorie Kloda, associate university librarian at [[w:Concordia University|Concordia University]], quoted in [https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/brownstein-wikipedia-to-get-respect-at-concordia-university Brownstein: Wikipedia to get respect at Concordia University] by Bill Brownstein, ''Montreal Gazette'' (16 January 2019)

* Wikipedia's extreme form of democracy sounds even stranger in 2019 than it must have sounded in 2001.
** Caille Millner in [https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Wikipedia-hasn-t-lost-sight-of-its-mission-18-13543511.php Wikipedia hasn't lost sight of its mission 18 years after launch], ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (18 January 2019)

* Wikipedia has become an ideological battleground in recent years, with zealots from both left and right using it to mock and smear their enemies.
** Jasper Hamill in [https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/22/sick-vandals-target-martin-luther-king-wikipedia-page-mlk-day-8372536/ Sick vandals mark Martin Luther King Day with pornographic attack on Wikipedia page celebrating the great man], ''Metro'' (22 January 2019)

* Supporting Wikipedia is [...] a shrewd business decision that will likely benefit Google for years to come.
** Louise Matsakis in [https://www.wired.com/story/google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages/ Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools], ''Wired: Business'' (22 January 2019)

* Whereas a true scientist, confronted with a glimpse of the unknown, would pursue the inexplicable, the Skeptics close their eyes and ears to anything that challenges their Newtonian world-view. Worse, armed with the formidable propaganda tool that is Wikipedia, they force their lack of curiosity on others, closing the lines of inquiry for millions who might otherwise be interested in pursuing some healing modality not fully explained by scientific orthodoxy.
** [[w:Gary Null|Gary Null]] and Helen Buyniski in [http://prn.fm/wikipedia-supporting-dark-side-medicine/ Wikipedia: Supporting the dark side of medicine?], ''PRN.FM'' (February 2019)

* Wikipedians in residence (WIR) have been around since at least 2010, with the first one hired by the British Museum in the U.K. Since then, other museums as well as universities, archives, libraries, art galleries and health organizations, have followed suit with a total of 165 WIRs hired worldwide. According to the Wikimedia Foundation [...], right now 65 WIRs are actively working — and registered — with the foundation.
** Sharon Aschaiek in [https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/advancing-academia-with-wikipedia/ Advancing academia with Wikipedia], ''University Affairs'' (26 February 2019)

* Indeed, Fram seemed like the perfect test case for a new kind of enforcement from the foundation – a prolific user whose bad behavior warranted a severe sanction short of a lifetime ban. But as is the case in so many enforcement decisions on social platforms, the ban created more questions than it answered.
** Joseph Bernstein in [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikipedia-ban-editor-culture-war The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia], ''BuzzFeedNews'' (27 June 2019)

* The real cause of the Fram flare-up wasn't the sudden overreach by the foundation, but the community's own laissez-faire attitude about toxic users. ... The community is currently blaming the foundation for their own mess, in my opinion, which was caused by our abject failure to develop procedures to enforce civility without Foundation intervention.
** User:BU Rob13, as quoted by Joseph Bernstein in [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikipedia-ban-editor-culture-war The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia], ''BuzzFeedNews'' (27 June 2019)

* It’s been tradition that our communities are by and large self-governing, except for issues around child protection, threats of suicide, threats of violence, and legal matters.
** A ''veteran Wikipedia editor'' according to [https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/wikipedia-fram-banning-editor-controversy.html Wikipedia’s “Constitutional Crisis” Pits Community Against Foundation] in [[Slate Magazine]] posted July 02, 2019

* The Commissioner sees the ongoing blocking of access to Wikipedia as forming part of a broader pattern of undue restrictions on the right to receive and impart information on the internet, and more generally as an illustration of the disproportionately heavy-handed approach currently prevailing in Turkey to any content or information the Turkish authorities consider offensive. ... Commissioner Mijatovic concludes that the way Turkish administrative authorities and courts routinely have recourse to internet blocking is unacceptable in a democratic society and not compatible with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights which protects freedom of expression. ... The systemic nature of the problem requires far-reaching measures, including the complete overhaul of the relevant Turkish legislation.
** [[w:Dunja Mijatovic|Dunja Mijatovic]], the Council of Europe [[w:Commissioner for Human Rights|Commissioner for Human Rights]], in a submission to the [[w:European Court of Human Rights|European Court of Human Rights]], as quoted in [https://www.turkishminute.com/2019/11/26/human-rights-commissioner-says-turkeys-blocking-of-wikipedia-a-violation-of-freedom-of-expression/ Human rights commissioner says Turkey's blocking of Wikipedia a violation of freedom of expression], ''Turkish Minute'' (26 November 2019)

=== 2020s===
====2020====
[[File:Elon Musk Royal Society.jpg|thumb|[[History]] is [[written]] by the [[victor]], except on wikipedia]]
* [Wikipedia comprises millions of articles that are in constant need of edits to reflect new information. That can involve article expansions, major rewrites, or more routine modifications such as updating numbers, dates, names, and locations. Currently, humans across the globe volunteer their time to make these edits.] It would be beneficial to automatically modify exact portions of the articles, with little to no human intervention.
** Darsh Shah, PhD student at CSAIL, as quoted by Rob Matheson in [http://news.mit.edu/2020/automated-rewrite-wikipedia-articles-0212 Automated system can rewrite outdated sentences in Wikipedia articles], ''MIT News Office'' (12 February 2020)

* History is written by the victors … except on Wikipedia haha
** [[Elon Musk]] [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1294921196564180994] (Aug 16, 2020)

* [I have not seen a single practical use-case to convince me to integrate cryptocurrencies or blockchain into the platform. To reward content creators and editors with digital assets] is a really bad idea. ... By integrating cryptocurrencies, Wikipedia would be taking a step back by making it easier for people and companies to pay for the content they want on the platform. Creating a mechanism where you effectively authenticate that type of behavior ... isn't going to help with the quality of Wikipedia at all. ... To say to them, you're going to have to pay or put money at risk in order to edit Wikipedia is completely insane. 
** [[Jimmy Wales]] on 21 February 2020 while speaking at the CoinGeek Conference in London, as quoted in [https://coinrocco.com/en/blog/wikipedia-co-founder-critiques-crypto-integration-insights-from-jimmy-wales Wikipedia Co-Founder Says Crypto Integration Would Be ‘Completely Insane'], ''coinrocco.com'' (21 February 2020)

*If it is a mistake to keep comparing Wikipedia to Britannica, it is another kind of category error to judge Wikipedia against its peers in the internet's top 10. '''Wikipedia ought to serve as a model for many forms of social endeavor online, but its lessons do not translate readily into the commercial sphere.''' It is a noncommercial enterprise, with no investors or shareholders to appease, no financial imperative to grow or die, and no standing to maintain in the arms race to amass data and attain AI supremacy at all costs. At Jimmy Wales' wedding, one of the maids of honor toasted him as the sole internet mogul who wasn't a billionaire.
**[https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/ Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet, By Richard Cooke, ''Wired,''] (17 Feb 2020)]

*The site has helped its fellow tech behemoths, though, especially with the march of [[AI]]. Wikipedia's liberal content licenses and vast information hoard have allowed developers to train neural networks much more quickly, cheaply, and widely than proprietary data sets ever could have. When you ask Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa a question, Wikipedia helps provide the answer. When you Google a famous person or place, Wikipedia often informs the “knowledge panel” that appears alongside your search results. These tools were made possible by a project called Wikidata, the next ambitious step toward realizing the age-old dream of creating a “World Brain.” ... As platforms like Google and Alexa work to provide instant answers to random questions, Wikidata will be one of the key architectures that link the world's information together...
**[https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/ Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet, By Richard Cooke, ''Wired,''] (17 Feb 2020)]

*Why do Wikipedians perform these millions of hours of labor, some expended on a giant straw goat, without pay? Because they don't experience them as labor. “It's a misconception people work for free,” Wales told the site Hacker Noon in 2018. “They have fun for free.” A 2011 survey of more than 5,000 Wikipedia contributors listed “It's fun” as one of the primary reasons they edited the site.
**[https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/ Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet, By Richard Cooke, ''Wired,'' (17 Feb 2020)]

* I can't tell you what the cause of the bias on Wikipedia is, I can only tell you that it's really obvious now. It used to be quite obvious, like even 10 years ago it was already pretty obvious 10 years ago. Now it's just embarrassing. 
**Larry Sanger. (co-founder, Wikipedia) Sep 2, 2020. Larry Sanger, founder of Wikipedia, Interview with Nupur J. Sharma. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwcPEACzUfQ&feature=youtu.be Larry Sanger, founder of Wikipedia, talks to Nupur Sharma]

*There is a massive irony in the fact that Wikipedia is so extremely biased: it was started by someone who cares unusually deeply about neutrality (me), who developed and defended its neutrality policy at great length. Man makes plans, and God laughs.
**Larry Sanger. (co-founder, Wikipedia) Tweet on Twitter, on Sep 3, 2020. [https://twitter.com/lsanger/status/1301619256778526721]

==== 2021 ====
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* Making [[social media]] liable would mean [[Twitter]], [[Facebook]], even Wikipedia and [[Yelp]] couldn't exist as we know them
** [[Scott Pelley]] on [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/section-230-internet-60-minutes-2021-01-03/ Why victims of internet lies want Section 230 repealed] broadcast January 3, 2020

*Even the common perception that Wikipedia provides a level playing field on which humanity can freely share all its knowledge is a pretense. The reality is that while all such digital structures behave like free and unrestricted systems, they are in fact controlled by gamification algorithms at the hands of those who own and operate them. Very few people grasp the profound deception of the system.
** [[Malhotra, R.]] (2021). Artificial intelligence and the future of power: 5 battlegrounds. New Delhi : Rupa, 2021.

*[the infiltration had threatened the] very foundations of Wikipedia.
*This case is unprecedented in scope
*[the foundation had been investigating the infiltration of Chinese-language Wikipedia for nearly a year. But this summer] credible threats [to volunteers' safety had] led us to prioritise rapid response
** [[Maggie Dennis]], [[Wikimedia Foundation]] vice-president '''[https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58559412 Wikipedia blames pro-China infiltration for bans]''' (16 September 2021)

==== 2022 ====
[[File:2015-03-27._%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B0%D0%BC_088.jpg|thumb|Editing Wikipedia from a [[w:Bomb shelter|bomb shelter]] is [[difficult]]. To be [[honest]], covering the [[invasion]] is not our main [[priority]] now. People are mainly trying to put in place their [[w:PlanB|plan B]], either by [[evacuating]] to a [[safer]] place, by joining the [[army]], or by joining [[volunteer]] organizations. ~ Mykola Kozlenko]]
* Like many other knowledge spaces, Wikipedia has a problem: it lacks visual representation, especially when it comes to notable figures who belong to the global majority, including Black, Indigenous, and people of color. To change that, we are starting a new initiative in collaboration with Behance and AfroCROWD: Discover #WikiUnseen
** Wikimedia Foundation via [[Youtube]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAJcXj8fLXkWiki Unseen | See their faces. Know their stories] (Feb 10, 2022)

* Once [[:w:news media|outlets]] like the ''[[:w:HuffPost|Huffington Post]]'', ''[[:w:The Daily Beast|Daily Beast]]'', ''[[:w:The Daily Beast|Vox]]'' etcetera publish an article making baseless claims about a person, then the Wikipedia editors update that person's page to paint them in a false light and save the salacious [[:wikt:hit piece|hit piece]]s as the source in the footnotes cementing the allegations in the target's Wikipedia page.
** [[w:Mark Dice|Mark Dice]] in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqEbZGIimHA&list=TLPQMTQwMjIwMjJY8WSHG6XcQg Wikipedia: The Internet's Largest Source of Misinformation], ''YouTube'', 11 February 2022

* “[[Writing]] on Wikipedia always comes with a lot of [[responsibility]],” Breslow said in an email. “Wikipedia is the major collective record of [[humanity]]’s [[knowledge]], and its articles are read by a staggering number of [[readers]]. They influence what people [[believe]] and how they [[live]] their lives, so it’s essential we make them as [[reliable]], [[neutral]], and [[comprehensive]] as possible.”
** Samuel Breslow as quoted by Stephen Harrison, [https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/wikipedia-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-edits-kyiv-kiev.html “How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia”], ''Slate'', (March 01, 2022)

* “Editing Wikipedia from a [[w:Bomb shelter|bomb shelter]] is [[difficult]],” said Mykola Kozlenko, the vice president of the Wikimedia [[Ukraine]] user group. “To be [[honest]], covering the [[invasion]] is not our main [[priority]] now. People are mainly trying to put in place their [[w:PlanB|plan B]], either by [[evacuating]] to a [[safer]] place, by joining the [[army]], or by joining [[volunteer]] organizations.”
** Mykola Kozlenko as quoted by Stephen Harrison, [https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/wikipedia-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-edits-kyiv-kiev.html “How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia”], ''Slate'', (March 01, 2022)

==== 2023 ====
* Having that protection there is what has allowed Wikipedia to be written by thousands of volunteer editors around the world over the last 22 years. So without the protections of [[w:Section 230|Section 230]], that becomes a much more difficult scenario for us.
** Wikimedia Foundation’s Senior Legal Manager Leighanna Mixter [https://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-section-230-scotus-encyclopedia-1850085090 Wikipedia Worries Its Volunteer Editors Could Be Liable to Lawsuits Without Section 230] (PublishedYesterday) By Kyle Barr Comments (8)
*** More at: [[Reynaldo Gonzalez v. Google]]

* The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] has declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia [[internet]] [[encyclopedia]] to resurrect its [[lawsuit]] against the [[National Security Agency]] challenging mass [[online]] [[surveillance]].
** [[w:Slashdot|Slashdot]] [https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/22/1542248/supreme-court-snubs-wikipedia-bid-to-challenge-nsa-surveillance "Supreme Court Snubs Wikipedia Bid To Challenge NSA Surveillance"] (February 22, 2023)

===== “Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth” (Published July 18, 2023, updated July 21, 2023) =====
 Jon Gertner, [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html “Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth”], ''The New York Times'', (Published July 18, 2023, updated July 21, 2023) 
[[File:Le_avventure_di_Pinocchio-pag020.jpg|thumb|Without Wikipedia, generative A.I. wouldn’t exist. ~ Nicholas Vincent]]
[[File:Searchlights_pierce_the_night_sky_during_an_air-raid_practice_on_Gibraltar,_20_November_1942._GM1852.jpg|thumb|For a popular article that might have thousands of contributors, “Wikipedia is literally the most accurate form of information ever created by humans,” [[w:Amy S. Bruckman|Amy Bruckman]], a professor at the [[w:Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Institute of Technology]], told me. But Wikipedia’s short articles can sometimes be hit or miss. “They could be total garbage,” says Bruckman, who is the author of the recent book “Should You Believe Wikipedia?”]]
[[File:USMC-100629-M-3215R-002.jpg|thumb|Jesse Dodge, a computer scientist at the [[w:Allen Institute for AI|Allen Institute for AI]] in [[Seattle]], told me that Wikipedia might now make up between 3 and 5 percent of the scraped data an L.L.M. uses for its training. “Wikipedia going forward will forever be super valuable,” Dodge points out, “because it’s one of the largest well-curated data sets out there.” There is generally a link, he adds, between the quality of data a model trains on and the accuracy and coherence of its responses.]]
[[File:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester.png|thumb|Reagle told me that the recent debates over A.I. recall for him the early days of Wikipedia, when its quality was unflatteringly compared to that of other encyclopedias. “It served as a proxy in this larger culture war about information and knowledge and quality and authority and legitimacy. So I take a sort of similar model to thinking about ChatGPT, which is going to improve. Just like Wikipedia is not perfect, it’s not perfect — it’s never going to be perfect — but what is the relative value given the other information that’s out there?”]]
[[File:Cc.logo.circle.svg|thumb|While Wikipedia’s licensing policy lets anyone tap its knowledge and text — to “reuse and remix” it however they might like — it does have several conditions. These include the requirements that users must “share alike,” meaning any information they do something with must subsequently be made readily available, and that users must give credit and attribution to Wikipedia contributors. Mixing Wikipedia’s corpus into a chatbot model that gives answers to queries without explaining the sourcing may thus violate Wikipedia’s terms of use, two people in the open-source software community told me.]]
* The new [[A.I.]] [[w:Chatbot|chatbots]] have typically swallowed Wikipedia’s corpus, too. Embedded deep within their responses to queries is Wikipedia [[data]] and Wikipedia [[text]], [[knowledge]] that has been compiled over years of [[painstaking]] [[work]] by [[human]] contributors. While estimates of its influence can vary, Wikipedia is probably the most important single source in the training of A.I. models. “Without Wikipedia, generative A.I. wouldn’t exist,” says Nicholas Vincent, who will be joining the faculty of [[w:Simon Fraser University|Simon Fraser University]] in [[British Columbia]] this month and who has studied how Wikipedia helps support Google searches and other information businesses. Yet as bots like [[w:ChatGPT|ChatGPT]] become increasingly popular and sophisticated, Vincent and some of his colleagues wonder what will happen if Wikipedia, out-flanked by A.I. that has cannibalized it, suffers from disuse and dereliction. In such a future, a “Death of Wikipedia” outcome is perhaps not so far-fetched. A computer intelligence — it might not need to be as good as Wikipedia, merely good enough — is plugged into the web and seizes the opportunity to summarize source materials and news articles instantly, the way humans now do with argument and deliberation.
* How Wikipedia uses bots and how bots use Wikipedia are extremely different, however. For years it has been clear that fledgling A.I. systems were being trained on the site’s articles, as part of the process whereby engineers “scrape” the web to create enormous data sets for that purpose. In the early days of these models, about a decade ago, Wikipedia represented a large percentage of the scraped data used to train machines. The encyclopedia was crucial not only because it’s free and accessible, but also because it contains a mother lode of facts and so much of its material is consistently formatted. In more recent years, as so-called Large Language Models, or L.L.M.s, increased in size and functionality — these are the models that power chatbots like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard — they began to take in far larger amounts of information. In some cases, their meals added up to well over a trillion words. The sources included not just Wikipedia but also Google’s patent database, government documents, Reddit’s Q. and A. corpus, books from online libraries and vast numbers of news articles on the web. But while Wikipedia’s contribution in terms of overall volume is shrinking — and even as tech companies have stopped disclosing what data sets go into their A.I. models — it remains one of the largest single sources for L.L.M.s. Jesse Dodge, a computer scientist at the [[w:Allen Institute for AI|Allen Institute for AI]] in [[Seattle]], told me that Wikipedia might now make up between 3 and 5 percent of the scraped data an L.L.M. uses for its training. “Wikipedia going forward will forever be super valuable,” Dodge points out, “because it’s one of the largest well-curated data sets out there.” There is generally a link, he adds, between the quality of data a model trains on and the accuracy and coherence of its responses.
* Wikipedia’s fundamental goal is to spread knowledge as broadly and freely as possible, by whatever means. About 10 years ago, when site administrators focused on how Google was using Wikipedia, they were in a situation that presaged the advent of A.I. chatbots. Google’s search engine was able, at the top of its query results, to present Wikipedians’ work to users all over the world, giving the encyclopedia far greater reach than before — an apparent virtue. In 2017, three academic computer scientists, Connor McMahon, Isaac Johnson and Brent Hecht, conducted an experiment that tested how random users would react if just part of the contributions made to Google’s search results by Wikipedia were removed. The academics perceived an “extensive interdependence”: Wikipedia makes Google a “significantly better” search engine for many queries, and Wikipedia, in turn, gets most of its traffic from Google.
* [[w:Aaron Halfaker|Aaron Halfaker]], who led the machine-learning research team at the Wikimedia Foundation for several years (and who now works for [[Microsoft]]), told me that search-engine summaries at least offer users links and [[citations]] and a way to click back to Wikipedia. The responses from large language models can resemble an information smoothie that goes down easy but contains mysterious ingredients. “The ability to generate an answer has fundamentally shifted,” he says, noting that in a ChatGPT answer there is “literally no citation, and no grounding in the literature as to where that information came from.” He contrasts it with the Google or Bing search engines: “This is different. This is way more powerful than what we had before.”
* Wikipedia’s most devoted supporters will readily acknowledge that it has plenty of flaws. The Wikimedia Foundation estimates that its English-language site has about 40,000 active editors — meaning they make at least five edits a month to the encyclopedia. According to recent data from the Wikimedia Foundation, about 80 percent of that cohort is male, and about 75 percent of those from the United States are white, which has led to some gender and racial gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage. And lingering doubts about reliability remain. For a popular article that might have thousands of contributors, “Wikipedia is literally the most accurate form of information ever created by humans,” [[w:Amy S. Bruckman|Amy Bruckman]], a professor at the [[w:Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Institute of Technology]], told me. But Wikipedia’s short articles can sometimes be hit or miss. “They could be total garbage,” says Bruckman, who is the author of the recent book “Should You Believe Wikipedia?”
* Within the Wikipedia community, there is a cautious sense of hope that A.I., if managed right, will help the organization improve rather than crash. Selena Deckelmann, the chief tech officer, expresses that perspective most optimistically. “What we’ve proven over 22 years now is: We have a volunteer model that is sustainable,” she told me. “I would say there are some threats to it. Is it an insurmountable threat? I don’t think so.” The longtime Wikipedia editor who wrote “Death of Wikipedia” told me that he feels there is a case to be made for a good outcome in the coming years, even if the longer term seems far less certain. The Wikimedia plug-in is the first significant move toward protecting its future. Projects are also in the works to use recent advances in A.I. internally. Albon says that he and his colleagues are in the process of adapting A.I. models that are “off the shelf” — essentially models that have been made available by researchers for anyone to freely customize — so that Wikipedia’s editors can use them for their work. One focus is to have A.I. models aid new volunteers, say, with step-by-step chatbot instructions as they begin working on new articles, a process that involves many rules and protocols and often alienates Wikipedia’s newcomers. Leila Zia, the head of research at the Wikimedia Foundation, told me that her team was likewise working on tools that could help the encyclopedia by predicting, for example, whether a new article or edit would be overruled. Or, she said, perhaps a contributor “doesn’t know how to use citations” — in that case, another tool would indicate that. I asked whether it could help Wikipedia entries maintain a neutral point of view as they were writing. “Absolutely,” she says.
* Three years ago, in anticipation of Wikipedia’s 20th anniversary, [[w:Joseph M. Reagle Jr.|Joseph Reagle]], a professor at [[w:Northeastern University|Northeastern University]], wrote a historical essay exploring how the death of the site had been predicted again and again. Wikipedia has nevertheless found ways to adapt and endure. Reagle told me that the recent debates over A.I. recall for him the early days of Wikipedia, when its quality was unflatteringly compared to that of other encyclopedias. “It served as a proxy in this larger culture war about information and knowledge and quality and authority and legitimacy. So I take a sort of similar model to thinking about ChatGPT, which is going to improve. Just like Wikipedia is not perfect, it’s not perfect — it’s never going to be perfect — but what is the relative value given the other information that’s out there?”
* While Wikipedia’s licensing policy lets anyone tap its knowledge and text — to “reuse and remix” it however they might like — it does have several conditions. These include the requirements that users must “share alike,” meaning any information they do something with must subsequently be made readily available, and that users must give credit and attribution to Wikipedia contributors. Mixing Wikipedia’s corpus into a chatbot model that gives answers to queries without explaining the sourcing may thus violate Wikipedia’s terms of use, two people in the open-source software community told me. It is now a topic of conversation inside the Wikimedia community whether some legal recourse exists. Data providers may be able to exert other kinds of leverage as well. In April, Reddit announced that it would not make its corpus available for scraping by big tech companies without compensation. It seems very unlikely that the Wikimedia Foundation could issue the same dictum and close its sites off — an action that Nicholas Vincent has called a “data strike” — because its terms of service are more open. But the foundation could make arguments in the name of fairness and appeal to firms to pay for its A.P.I., just as Google does now. It could further insist that chatbots give Wikipedia prominent attribution and offer citations in their answers, something Selena Deckelmann told me the foundation is discussing with various firms. Vincent says that A.I. companies would be foolhardy to try to build a global encyclopedia themselves, with individual contractors. Instead, he told me, “there might be an intermediary stage here where Wikipedia says, ‘Hey, look at how important we’ve been to you.’”
* Without ingesting the growing millions of Wikipedia pages or vacuuming up Reddit arguments about plot twists in “[[w:The Bear (TV series)|The Bear]],” new L.L.M.s can’t be adequately trained. In fact, no one I spoke with in the tech community seemed to know if it would even be possible to build a good A.I. model without Wikipedia.

==== 2024 ====
* We love the amount of support — from the trainings to the course guides to the assistance available via email. With the use of Wikipedia, students are thinking critically about the knowledge gaps and inequities found in public information sources and resources — and they work to improve these conditions with each assignment. It's great that students get to see the impact of their work so quickly too, as the number of page views grows far faster than the number of scholars and colleagues who may otherwise read their published work.
** Terri Hlava as quoted by Hailey Torborg, [https://news.asu.edu/20240409-law-journalism-and-politics-asu-faculty-contributing-improvement-wikipedia “ASU faculty contributing to improvement of Wikipedia”], ''Arizona State University'', (April 09, 2024)

* Wikipedia’s articles about history and religion have real-life impact on the world. What people read on Wikipedia shapes the opinions they form about politics, social justice and so forth. Therefore we need to make sure Wikipedia gets it right, and this project is going to help that goal.
** Shira Klein as quoted by Hailey Torborg, [https://news.asu.edu/20240409-law-journalism-and-politics-asu-faculty-contributing-improvement-wikipedia “ASU faculty contributing to improvement of Wikipedia”], ''Arizona State University'', (April 09, 2024)

* If you know how to navigate the site, Wikipedia is a uniquely transparent knowledge-sharing platform. So students get to see how the articles are developed in ways that are typically black-boxed in academia’s peer-review process or in what happens in the office of news media organizations. This makes it a great learning opportunity for identifying how bias can shape Wikipedia content, and for practicing how to intervene in those processes.
** Tracy Perkins as quoted by Hailey Torborg, [https://news.asu.edu/20240409-law-journalism-and-politics-asu-faculty-contributing-improvement-wikipedia “ASU faculty contributing to improvement of Wikipedia”], ''Arizona State University'', (April 09, 2024)

== See also ==
* [[Bomis]]
* [[Citizendium]]
* [[MediaWiki]]
* [[Gender bias on Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikiquote:Wiki-sisters]]
* [[Wikiquote]]
* [[Wikidata]]
* [[Wikimedia]]
* [[Wikiquote]]
* [[Wikisource]]
* [[Wiktionary]]

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[[File:Abtei Seckau Engelskapelle Bekehrung des Äthiopiers.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a [[w:Lamb of God|lamb]] before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.'' – [[w:Acts 8|Acts 8]]:32 quoting from [[Book of Isaiah|Isaiah]] [[w:Isaiah 53|53]]:7]]
The '''''[[w:Acts of the Apostles|Acts of the Apostles]]''''', as it is known since the late second century, is the fifth book of the [[New Testament]]. Often referred to simply as '''''Acts''''', it tells of the founding of the [[Christianity|Christian church]] and the spread of its message. It is commonly believed to have been [[w:Authorship of Luke–Acts|written by]] [[w:Luke the Evangelist|Luke the Evangelist]], and to be the [[w:Luke–Acts|sequel]] to [[Gospel of Luke]]. The third gospel and Acts are respectively the longest and second longest books of the [[New Testament]]. From the point where the gospel concludes, Acts carries the record of early Christianity for another 30 years or so.

== Quotes ==
* All the [[w:Early centers of Christianity#Jerusalem|believers]] were together and had [[w:Christian views on poverty and wealth|everything in common]]. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.
** [[w:Acts 2|2]]:44-45 [[New International Version|NIV]]

* “... you have filled Jerusalem with your [[w:Early Christianity and Judaism|teaching]], and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” But [[w:Saint Peter|Peter]] and the [[w:Apostle (Christian)|apostles]] answered, “We must [[w:Obedience (human behavior)|obey]] God rather than men. ...”
** [[w:Acts 5|5]]:29 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of [[w:kohen|priests]] became obedient to the faith.
** [[w:Acts 6|6]]:7 [[New International Version|NIV]], the first of six "summary statements" in Acts

* Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of [[Israel]], have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond [[Babylon]].
** 7:42-43, [[KJV]]

* And [[[w:Saint Stephen|Stephen]]] said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the [[w:Son of man (Christianity)|Son of Man]] standing at the [[w:Right hand of God|right hand of God]].”
** [[w:Acts 7|7]]:56 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being [[Baptism|baptized]]?”
** [[w:Acts 8|8]]:36 [http://biblehub.com/acts/8-36.htm BSB]

* “Who are you, [[w:Jesus is Lord|Lord]]?” [[Paul of Tarsus|Saul]] asked. “I am [[Jesus]], whom you are [[w:Persecution of Christians|persecuting]],” he replied.
** [[w:Acts 9|9]]:5 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

* Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the [[Fear of God|fear of the Lord]] and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
** [[w:Acts 9|9]]:31 [[w:New International Version|NIV]], the second of six "summary statements" in Acts

* So [[Saint Peter|Peter]] opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who [[w:Fear of God#Christianity|fears him]] and [[w:Righteousness|does what is right]] is acceptable to him. ...”
** [[w:Acts 10|10]]:34-35 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the [[Jews]] and religious proselytes followed [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul]] and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of [[God]]. And the next [[sabbath]] day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
** 13:43-46, [[KJV]]

*The Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
** 13:50, [[KJV]]

* Paul said to [[w:Barnabas|Barnabas]], "Let us return and visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed [[w:Logos (Christianity)|the word]] of the Lord, and see how they are."
** [[w:Acts 15|15]]:36 [[w:New American Standard Bible|NASB]]

* During the night [[Paul the Apostle|Paul]] had a vision of a man of [[w:Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]] standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
** [[w:Acts 16|16]]:9 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

[[File:BaptistryAtPhilippi.JPG|thumb|right|250px|''One of those listening was a woman from the city of [[w:Thyatira|Thyatira]] named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a [[w:Judaizers|worshiper of God]]. The [[w:Jesus is Lord|Lord]] opened her heart to respond to Paul’s [[message]].'' – Acts 16:14]]
* One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named [[w:Lydia of Thyatira|Lydia]], a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord [[w:Effectual calling|opened her heart]] to respond to Paul’s message.
** 16:14 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* So Paul, standing in the midst of the [[w:Areopagus|Areopagus]], [[w:Areopagus sermon|said]]: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the [[w:Unknown God|unknown god]].’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. ...”
** [[w:Acts 17|17]]:22-23 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* As some of your own [[w:Ancient Greek literature|poets]] have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
** Paul in Acts 17:28 [[w:New International Version|NIV]], quoting i.a. from the ''Phenomena'' of [[w:Aratus|Aratus]]

* Now a Jew named [[w:Apollos|Apollos]], a native of [[w:Alexandria|Alexandria]], came to [[w:Ephesus|Ephesus]]. He was an eloquent man, competent in the [[w:Tanakh|Scriptures]]. He had been instructed in the [[w:Early Christianity|way of the Lord]]. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning [[w:Jesus|Jesus]], though he knew only the [[w:Baptism in early Christianity|baptism]] of [[w:John the Baptist|John]]. ... he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the [[w:Jesus in Christianity|Christ was Jesus]].
** [[w:Acts 18|18]]:24-25, 28 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* And a number of those who had practiced [[w:magic (paranormal)|magic arts]] brought their books and burned them in front of everyone.
** [[w:Acts 19|19]]:19 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

* “After I have been [to Jerusalem],” [Paul] said, “I must visit Rome also.”
** 19:21 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

* The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have [[w:Christian testimony|testified]] about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.”
** [[w:Acts 23|23]]:11 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

* Paul argued in his defense [before [[w:Porcius Festus|Festus]]], “Neither against the [[w:Torah|law of the Jews]], nor against the [[w:Temple in Jerusalem|temple]], nor against [[w:Nero|Caesar]] have I committed any offense.”
** [[w:Acts 25|25]]:8 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* [Festus] declared: “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!”
** 25:12 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* “ ... according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a [[w:Pharisee|Pharisee]]. And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our [[w:Patriarchs (Bible)|fathers]], to which our [[w:Israelites|twelve tribes]] hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am [[w:Judaism's view of Jesus|accused by Jews]], O king! ...”
** [[w:Acts 26|26]]:5-7 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* And [[w:Herod Agrippa II|Agrippa]] said to Paul, “In a short time would you [[w:Religious conversion|persuade]] me to be a [[w:Christian|Christian]]?”
** 26:28 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* [An angel of God] said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.’
** [[w:Acts 27|27]]:24 [[New International Version|NIV]]

* From morning until evening [Paul] explained things to [the Jewish leaders of Rome], testifying about the [[w:Kingdom of God (Christianity)|kingdom of God]] and trying to convince them about Jesus from both the [[w:Law of Moses|law of Moses]] and the [[w:Nevi'im|prophets]]. Some were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe. So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: “The [[w:Holy Spirit in Christianity|Holy Spirit]] spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet [[Isaiah]] when he said, ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, ...”’ “Therefore be advised that this [[w:Salvation in Christianity|salvation from God]] has been sent to the [[w:Gentile|Gentiles]]; they will listen!”
** Paul in Acts [[w:Acts 35|35]]:23-(27)28 [[w:New English Translation|NET]], verse 26 quoting from [[Book of Isaiah|Isaiah]] 6:9

* Paul lived [in Rome] two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.
** Acts 35:30-31 [https://bible.org/seriespage/35-paul-rome-acts-281-31 NET]

==Quotes about ''Acts''==
[[File:Nikolai_Bodarevsky_001.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''This is the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. [[w:Herod Agrippa II|King Agrippa]], it is because of this hope that these Jews are accusing me.'' – Acts 26:7 ([[w:New International Version|NIV]])]]
* Following the four gospels [...] comes a book which is for the most part a straightforward history and is particularly valuable for that reason. It deals with the slow growth of Christianity during the generation that followed the [[w:Crucifixion of Jesus|crucifixion of Jesus]] – from its beginnings in [[w:Jerusalem|Jerusalem]] until its slowly widening influence finally reached [[w:Rome|Rome]] itself. In so doing, it indicates the steady shift of Christianity away from its national Jewish foundation to the status of a universal [[w:Gentile|Gentile]] religion, and the hero of that shift is the apostle [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul]].
**[[w:Isaac Asimov|Isaac Asimov]], Asimov's Guide to the Bible, Chapter 9. Acts, p. 995, ''Wings Books'', 1981

* The close relationship between Jesus and the Church is highlighted in the story of [[w:Conversion of Paul the Apostle|Paul’s conversion]]. … Note here Jesus’ exact words: “Why do you persecute ''me''?” Saul could have easily answered, “I’m not persecuting ''you'' – I am going after ''your disciples''.” However, it seems Jesus’ words illustrate precisely the critical point which is emphasized over and over again in the book of Acts: Jesus is to be identified with his Church. … Thus, as Christ lived in his earthly body, he now lives in the Church. What he did in his earthly body he now does in his [[w:Mystici corporis Christi|Mystical Body]].
** Michael Barber ([[w:Augustine Institute|Augustine Institute]] in Denver, Colo.), in [https://www.thesacredpage.com/2010/04/acts-of-apostles-insights-and.html Acts of the Apostles: Insights and Implications of Talbert's Work], ''The Sacred Page'' (blog), 15 April 2010

* The needed structure that spans that gulf [between Old and New Testament] is the Book of Acts. Now how can Acts be that bridge between the Old and the New Testament if the first book of the New Testament is the [[Gospel of Matthew]] followed by three more gospels? The answer is that the purpose of the gospels is to reveal the nature, the life and the times of [[w:Yeshua|Yeshua]], who is the Messiah. But the Book of Acts delves into how the followers of a [[w:Messiah in Judaism|Jewish Messiah]] whose messianic office is derived only from a Jewish Israelite religion and a Jewish Israelite holy book, somehow came to purposely include a gentile world.
**Tom Bradford in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBkjNs9Svb8 Lesson 1: Acts Intro], ''Torah Class'', 2017

* While the gospel was no doubt carried along all roads which branched out from its [[w:Palestine (region)|Palestinian homeland]], Acts concentrates on the road from Jerusalem to [[w:Church of Antioch|Antioch]] and thence to Rome.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 10, 1962

* ...its dependence on the ''[[w:Antiquities of the Jews|Antiquities]]'' of [[Josephus]] ... is most improbable. ... The optimistic note on which Acts ends, with Paul proclaiming the [[w:Kingdom of God (Christianity)|kingdom of God]] in Rome without let or hindrance, suggests a date before the outbreak of [[w:Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire#Nero|persecution in AD 64]].
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 10, 1962

* Luke is obviously concerned, in both parts of his work, to demonstrate that Christianity is not a menace to [[w:List of Roman laws|imperial law and order]]. He does this particularly by citing the judgments of [[w:Roman governor|governors]], [[w:Roman magistrate|magistrates]] and other authorities in various parts of the [[w:Roman Empire|Empire]].
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 11, 1962

* While [Luke] has apologetic and theological interests, these do not detract from his detailed accuracy, although they control his selection and presentation of the facts.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 11, 1962

[[File:View of the historical seat of the Metropolis of Corinth in the Roman Forum of Ancient Corinth on 6 April 2019.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''The practical implication of [[w:Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus|Gallio]]'s decision is that Christianity shares the protection assured by Roman law to Judaism.'' ~ F. F. Bruce]]
* The practical implication of his [i.e. [[w:Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus|Gallio]]'s] decision [to dismiss the charge of propagating an [[w:Religio licita|illicit religion]] brought against Paul by the Jewish leaders in [[w:Corinth|Corinth]]] is that Christianity shares the protection assured by Roman law to Judaism.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 11, 1962

* ...in Acts it is Jews who are Paul's bitterest enemies in one place after another. While Acts records the steady advance of the gospel in the great Gentile centres of imperial civilization, it records at the same time its progressive rejection by the majority of the Jewish communities throughout the Empire.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 11, 1962

* On the theological side, the dominating theme of Acts is the activity of the [[w:Holy Spirit in Christianity|Holy Spirit]]. The promise of the outpouring of the Spirit, made by the risen Christ in 1:4, is fulfilled for Jewish disciples in [[w:Acts 2|chapter 2]] and for Gentile believers in [[w:Acts 10|chapter 10]]. ... The book might indeed be called ‘The Acts of the Holy Spirit’. ... He is the principal witness to the truth of the gospel. The supernatural manifestations which accompany the spread of the gospel signify not only the Spirit's activity but also the inauguration of the new age in which Jesus reigns as [[w:Jesus is Lord|Lord]] and [[w:Messiah|Messiah]].
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', pp. 11-12, 1962

* ...it remains a document of incalculable value for the beginnings of Christianity. ... The rise and progress of Christianity is a study beset with problems, but some of these problems would be even more intractable than they are if we had not the information of Acts to help us. For example, how did it come about that a movement that began in the heart of [[w:Judaism|Judaism]] was recognized after a few decades as a distinctively [[w:Split of early Christianity and Judaism|Gentile religion]]? ... [Luke's] narrative is, in fact, a source-book of the highest value for a significant phase of the history of world civilization.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', pp. 11-12, 1962

* Acts describes nothing beyond Paul's two-year stay in Rome, even though a number of significant events occurred not long afterwards, including the [[w:Christian martyrs|martyrdoms]] of [[w:James the Less|James the Less]] and [[w:Mark the Evangelist|Mark the Evangelist]]. Neither does Luke record the outcome of Paul's appeal before the emperor. Thus, we may reasonably conclude that Acts was completed about two years after Paul arrived in Rome, not at any later date. Luke may have spent much of those two years working on his Gospel and on Acts of the Apostles. He may have had some portion of Acts written in advance (notes he had taken along the way and the like). However, this two-year period of time is the most likely time frame for the writing of the bulk of Acts and for its completion.
** Ronald L. Conte Jr., [http://www.catholicplanet.com/TSM/NT-Luke.htm The Writing of the New Testament - Luke and Acts], ''Catholic Planet'', 25 December 2005

* Here [the reader] will find an historical record of a new power at work in the world. It not only revolutionized religion but transformed man. ... For its sake frail [[martyr|men and women]] faced loss, persecution and death with serene and happy courage. Such are the facts of history which our reader will learn from this book.
** [[w:Anthony C. Deane|Anthony C. Deane]], How to enjoy the Bible, Chapter III, p. 53, ''Hodder & Stoughton'', 1934

* It was a high honor to compose the most significant chapters in the history of the [[w:Christian Church|Christian Church]]; yet the author of The Acts, who alone relates the origin of the most significant society and of the mightiest movement in the world, makes no mention of his own name.
** [[w:Charles R. Erdman|Charles R. Erdman]], The Acts, ''Westminster Press'', 1930

* Athens was the cradle of democracy, the centre of learning, and the uncontested leader of the civilized world. It is not surprising therefore that Luke, who records Paul's visit to the city in [[w:Acts 17|Acts 17]], makes Paul's [[w:Areopagus sermon|speech]] to the Athenians one of the high points of his book. Here we read of the clash between Christianity and [[paganism]] ...
** Dr. Riemer Faber, professor of Classics at the [[w:University of Waterloo|University of Waterloo]], in ''[https://spindleworks.com/library/rfaber/aratus.htm The Apostle and the Poet: Paul and Aratus]'', Clarion Vol. 42, No. 13 (1993)

* It describes [Christianity's] message and [[w:Christian ministry|ministry]], and its life – including its triumphs and trials, the passions that drove it, and the source of the power that energized it.
**Ajith Fernando, Acts, p. 21, ''Harper Collins'', 1998

* ... both Acts and the third Gospel have been written [[w:Authorship of the Bible#Luke and Acts|anonymously]]. But Acts is unique in that it contains ninety-seven verses during Paul's journeys where the third person is replaced by the first person plural – the so-called "[[w:Authorship of Luke–Acts#Critical view - the "we" passages as fragments of earlier source|we passages]]," which claim to be the observations of an eye-witness.
**Ajith Fernando, Acts, p. 22, ''Harper Collins'', 1998

* It should of course be recognized that [[w:Modern archaeology|modern archaeology]] has almost forced upon critics of St. Luke a verdict of remarkable accuracy in all his allusions to secular facts and events.
** [[w:Charles Gore|Charles Gore]], ''A New Commentary on Holy Scripture'', edited by Gore, Goudge, and Guillaume (1929) p. 210

* ... the [[w:Gospel|Gospels]] did little more than to anticipate the church, whereas the [[w:Epistle|Epistles]] presuppose it. A work was needed to describe the rise and development of this great spiritual entity that would at the same time be a binding element between Gospels and Epistles. The Book of Acts fills exactly that need.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 222, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* In the Acts Luke undertakes to trace the fulfillment of the earthly mission of Jesus in terms of the establishment of his church by men whom he had trained, and the [[w:Dispersion of the Apostles|spread of the movement]] under the impulsion of the [[w:Holy Spirit|Holy Spirit]] whom he had promised. ... [Acts] was intended to be informative and edifying, tracing the progress of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 225, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* Again and again the historian pictures the gospel being presented to the [[w:Jews|Jews]], only to be [[w:Rejection of Jesus|rejected]] by them. At the same time it is emphasized that [[w:Gentile|Gentiles]] have an eagerness to accept the message. It is especially impressive that this [[W:Christianity and Judaism|twofold reaction]] to the gospel should be the note on which the whole account closes.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 226, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* A strong case can be made out for a [[w:Dating the Bible#Table IV: New Testament|date of composition]] shortly after the close of the two-year period noted at the end of the book, during which time Paul remained in captivity awaiting trail, or around A.D. 63, despite [[w:James Moffatt|Moffatt]]'s claim that this is preposterous.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 226, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965
[[File:STP-ELP19.jpg|thumb|right|''But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.'' – Acts 1:8 [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+1%3A8&version=NRSV (NRSV)]]]
* The Acts is distinctly a missionary document, with the [[w:Great Commission|Great Commission]] of 1:8 the key to its structure. The gospel is preached and the church formed, first in Jerusalem, then in Judea, then in Samaria, then in the Gentile world.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 228, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* ... the title [i.e. "The Acts of the Apostles"] raises expectations that are not fulfilled, since the apostles as a body appear only in the early part of the book and their labors are not traced on an individual basis except for Peter and later for Paul. Nothing is said about the planting of the [[w:Christianity in Egypt|faith in Egypt]], where a strong church developed.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 228, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* The themes of the Acts – the establishing of a primitive church, the centrality of preaching, persecution, faith, growth – have an obvious appeal to [[John Calvin|Calvin]]. The application of this material to the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] was obvious – the need for direct, Christ-centered preaching, simplicity of life, firm faith in the face of persecution by Rome, churchly unity and fellowship.
** [[w:Paul Helm|Paul Helm]] in [https://www.reformation21.org/articles/sermons-on-the-acts-of-the-apostles-review.php reviewing] John Calvin, Sermons on the Acts of the Apostles 1-7, ''Banner of Truth Trust'', Edinburgh, 2008

* Immediately following the Gospels, ... comes a vividly written account of the beginnings of the community in Jerusalem and of those phases of its spread that are connected with Paul, the man who took [[w:Christianity in Europe|Christianity to Europe]]. ... Acts is simply a continuation of the narrative begun in Luke. It is written in excellent [[w:Koine Greek|Greek]], and provides our only source of knowledge about the earliest stage in the expansion of Christianity. We can, however, check its information against the [[w:Pauline epistles|letters of Paul]], where parallel accounts of certain key events appear. Acts also gives us valuable summaries of the apostolic preaching ... Although these are obviously not verbatim reports of the speakers' words, they appear to reflect the themes and emphases of the original Christian [[w:Evangelism|preachers]].
** [[w:Howard Clark Kee|Howard Clark Kee]] and Franklin W. Young, Understanding the New Testament, Chapter 2: The Community and its Convictions, p. 65, ''Prentice-Hall Inc.'', 1957 (reprint 1961)

* In trying to determine where the Book of Acts was written, we find some evidence that its author (or the author of one of its sources) was from [[w:Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]]. ... but just as strong a case can be made out for Rome, where, according to the Pastorals, Luke was aiding Paul during Paul's imprisonment (II Tim. 4:11). A third possibility ... is Antioch, which features so prominently in the narrative of Acts, and which was the home town of Luke, according to some of the early [[w:Church Fathers|church fathers]].
** [[w:Howard Clark Kee|Howard Clark Kee]] and Franklin W. Young, Understanding the New Testament, Chapter 2: The Community and its Convictions, p. 72, ''Prentice-Hall Inc.'', 1957 (reprint 1961)

* What then is the aim of this book, the sequel of the third gospel? As the title is human, one may draw from its own contents that we have in it the working of the [[Holy Spirit]], rather than of the [[w:Apostles|Twelve]] of whom we hear little save of Peter, and of Paul [[w:Conversion of Paul the Apostle|called extraordinarily]], but of others too who were not apostles.
** [[w:William Kelly (Bible scholar)|William Kelly]], God's Inspiration of the Scriptures, §32. The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 357-358, London, 1903

* The ninth chapter shows us the new step of sovereign grace in the conversion of Saul to be the witness of an ascended Christ, Who owns the [[w:saint|saint]]s as part of Himself, and calls the persecutor to be His chosen vessel to bear His name before Gentiles, kings, and children of Israel, the deepest in truth, the largest in heart, the most abundant in labour of all the [[w:apostles|apostles]]. No wonder the [[w:Gospel|gospel of Christ's glory]] marked him, who first saw and heard the Lord thus; yet a [[w:Ananias of Damascus|simple disciple]] baptised him who forthwith, in the synagogues, preached Jesus as the [[w:Son of God (Christianity)|Son of God]].
** [[w:William Kelly (Bible scholar)|William Kelly]], God's Inspiration of the Scriptures, §32. The Acts of the Apostles (discussion of 9th chapter), pp. 363-364, London, 1903

* Arrived at the [[Rome|great city]] Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him, and after three days called together the chief of the Jews, and explained the strange fact that for the hope of Israel he was a prisoner through Jewish accusation. ... So that Paul could but show them now the sentence finally of the Holy Spirit, as of the Son of the earth ([[w:John 12|John xii]].) and of Jehovah of old ([[w:Isaiah 6|Isa. vi.]]). But if Israel cut themselves off, save a remnant (the pledge of future restoration), the salvation of God is sent to Gentiles who hear. Such is the bearing of this book first and last. Only it is well to add that the apostle's charge in [[w:Acts 20|chapter xx]]. is no less clear that after his departure evil would prevail in the [[church]], as previously in Israel. And we know from [[w:Romans 11|Romans xi]]. that the Gentile, if not continuing in [[w:Righteousness|God's goodness]] (as he surely has not), must also be cut off, and thus make way for the recall of Israel to the universal joy and blessing of the world under the [[w:Redeemer (Christianity)|Redeemer]].
** [[w:William Kelly (Bible scholar)|William Kelly]], God's Inspiration of the Scriptures, §32. The Acts of the Apostles (discussion of [[w:Acts 28|final chapter]]), pp. 375-376, London, 1903

* Luke's Gospel ends with the [[w:Ascension of Jesus|Lord's ascension into heaven]], and his Acts begins with it. His Gospel is a narrative of the [[w:Ministry of Jesus|ministry]] of the incarnated Jesus on earth; his Acts is a record of the succeeding [[w:Christian ministry|ministry]] of the [[w:Resurrection of Jesus|resurrected]] and [[w:Session of Christ|ascended Christ in heaven]] carried out through His believers on earth. In the Gospels, [[w:Ministry of Jesus|His ministry on earth]], carried out by Himself, only sowed Himself as the seed of the kingdom of God into His believers, with no church built up yet. In the Acts, His ministry in heaven, carried out through believers in His resurrection and ascension, spreads Him as the development of the kingdom of God for the building up of the church throughout the entire world to constitute His Body, His fullness, to express Him, moreover, even the fullness of God for God's expression.
** [[w:Witness Lee|Witness Lee]], The Acts of the Apostles, Recovery version, pp. 3-4, ''Living Stream Ministry'', December 1984

* In the Gospels Christ was the seed of the kingdom; in the book of Acts we have the [[w:Parable of the Growing Seed|propagation of this seed]] to produce the churches as the kingdom of God.
** [[w:Witness Lee|Witness Lee]], The Holy Word for Morning Revival, Crystallization-Study of Acts, Volume 2, p. 136, ''Living Stream Ministry'', February 2009

*  [Luke's authorship] is clear from the book's introduction where [he] says: "I produced my first volume (that is the gospel) about all the things that Jesus ''began'' to do and to teach." Now Luke is giving a clue here as to what this book of Acts will be about. Volume one was about what Jesus ''began'' to do and to teach, volume two will then be about what Jesus ''continued'' to do and teach, which leads to a really interesting point about the book's traditional but not original name, The Acts of the Apostles. While different apostles do appear in most of these stories, the only single character who unifies the whole story from beginning to end is Jesus himself, acting directly or through the Spirit, and so the book would more accurately be named The Acts of Jesus and the Spirit.
** Tim Mackie (PhD) and Jonathan Collins (BA), [https://thebibleproject.com/explore/acts/ Acts, Part 1 of 2], ''The Bible Project'', 2019

* The main themes and the design of the Book of Acts flow right out of [the] opening chapter. This is a story about Jesus leading his people by the Spirit, to go out into the world and invite all nations to live under his reign. And so the story [begins] with that message spreading in Jerusalem, and then into the neighboring regions of Judea and Samaria, full of non-Jewish people, and then from there out to all of the nations, into the ends of the earth.
** Tim Mackie (PhD) and Jonathan Collins (BA), [https://thebibleproject.com/explore/acts/ Acts, Part 1 of 2], ''The Bible Project'', 2019

* I have never heard any thing about the resolutions of the [[w:Disciple (Christianity)|disciples]], but a great deal about the Acts of the [[Apostles]].
** [[Horace Mann]] quoted by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert in ''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'', p. 3 (1895)

* The traditional name for this book is “Acts of the Apostles,” but a more accurate name might be “A Few Acts of a Few of the Apostles.” ... The book describes some developments in detail, but sometimes skips several years at a time. ... The historian must select the facts that are most important and the events that played critical roles in the development of later situations.
** Michael Morrison, [https://www.gci.org/bible/actsintro Exploring the Book of Acts: Introduction], 2012

* The first part of this book is about Peter, and the second part is about Paul. This two-fold division is one of the simplest ways to divide the book of Acts, ...
** Michael Morrison, [https://www.gci.org/bible/actsintro Exploring the Book of Acts: Introduction], 2012

* You may press the words of Luke in a degree beyond any other historian's, and they stand the keenest scrutiny and the hardest treatment, provided always that the critic knows the subject and does not go beyond the limits of science and justice.
** [[w:William Mitchell Ramsay|William M. Ramsay]], The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament, p. 89, ''Hodder and Stoughton'', 1915

* It was the Roman custom to govern the [[w:Roman province|provinces]] of their far-flung empire by continuing as far as they safely could the local system of administration, and consequently the authorities in different districts went by many different names. No one, unless he were either an observant traveller or a painstaking student of records, could possibly give all these gentry their correct denomination. It is one of the most searching tests of Luke’s historical sense that he always manages to achieve perfect accuracy. In several cases it is only the evidence of a coin, or an inscription, that has given us the necessary information to check him; the recognized [[w:Roman historiography|Roman historians]] do not adventure themselves on such a difficult terrain. Thus Luke calls [[w:Herod Antipas|Herod]] and [[w:Lysanias|Lysanias]] [[w:Herodian Tetrarchy|tetrarchs]]; so does [[Josephus]]. [[w:Herod Agrippa|Herod Agrippa]], who slew [[w:James, brother of Jesus|James]] with the sword and cast [[Saint Peter|Peter]] into prison, is called a king; Josephus tells us how he became friendly at Rome with Gaius Cæsar ([[Caligula]]) and was rewarded with a royal title when Caligula came to be emperor. The governor of Cyprus, [[w:Sergius Paulus|Sergius Paulus]], is called [[w:proconsul|proconsul]]. … Not long before, Cyprus had been an [[w:Roman Cyprus|imperial province]], and governed by a [[w:Promagistrate|proprætor]] or [[w:Legatus|legatus]], but in Paul’s time, as is shown by Cyprian coins, both in Greek and Latin, the correct title was proconsul. A Greek inscription found at [[w:Soli, Cyprus|Soloi]] on the north coast of Cyprus is dated ‘in the proconsulship of Paulus’ … At [[w:Thessaloniki|Thessalonica]] the city magnates took the quite unusual title of [[w:Politarch|politarchs]], a name unknown to classical literature. It would be quite unfamiliar to us, except from Luke’s use of it, if it were not for the fact that it appears in inscriptions. … [[w:Achaea (Roman province)|Achaia]] under Augustus was a [[w:Senatorial province|senatorial province]], under Tiberius it was directly under the emperor, but under Claudius, as [[Tacitus]] tells us, it reverted to the senate, and therefore [[w:Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus|Gallio]]’s correct title [Acts 18:12] was proconsul. … Luke is equally happy, equally accurate, in his geography and his travel experiences.
** [[w:Arthur Rendle Short|A. Rendle Short]], ''Modern Discovery and the Bible'', pp. 211–213 (1955)
[[File:1600 kaloi limenes.jpg|thumb|right|''...the movements of this ship, from the time when she left Fair Havens until she was beached at Malta, … has been verified by … evidence of the most exact and satisfying nature'' ~ Edwin Smith]]
* The ancient vessels were not steered as those in modern times by a single rudder hinged to the stern post, but by two great oars or paddles, one on each side of the stern; hence the mention of them in the plural number by St. Luke. [Acts 27:40] ... We have seen in our examination that every statement as to the movements of this ship, from the time when she left [[w:Kaloi Limenes|Fair Havens]] until she was beached at [[w:Malta|Malta]], as set forth by St. Luke has been verified by external and independent evidence of the most exact and satisfying nature; and that his statements as to the time the ship remained at sea correspond with the distance covered; and finally that his description of the [[w:St Paul's Island|place arrived at]] is in conformity with the place as it is. All of which goes to show that Luke actually made the voyage as described, and has moreover shown himself to be a man whose observations and statements may be taken as reliable and trustworthy in the highest degree.
** Edwin Smith, commander of a flotilla of British warships in the Mediterranean during World War I, ''The Rudder'', March 1947

* The first [outline can be] drawn from [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+1%3A8&version=NRSV Acts 1:8]... This [three-part] outline is based upon geographical progression – Jerusalem; Judea and Samaria; the end of the earth. Acts 1–7 documents the progression of the gospel within Jerusalem; Acts 8–12, to Judea and Samaria; Acts 13–28, to the ‘end of the earth’, that is the Gentiles... One virtue of this outline is its emphasis upon concerns that are central to the book – the apostolic witness to Christ, the work of the Spirit of Christ within the church, and the once-for-all [[w:Redemptive-historical preaching|redemptive-historical]] progression of the gospel from Jew to Gentile.
** Guy Prentiss Waters (Professor of New Testament at [[w:Reformed Theological Seminary|Reformed Theological Seminary]] in [[w:Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]], Miss.) in [https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/files/pub/book_previews/Guy-Prentiss-Waters_A-Study-Commentary-on-The-Acts-of-the-Apostles_Prelude-to-Pentecost.pdf A Study Commentary on The Acts of the Apostles], p. 22, ''EP Books'', 2015

* The ministry of the apostles is a constant of the [[w:Acts of the Apostles (genre)|narrative]], from the first chapter to the end of the book and at every point between them. ... Acts is not a biography of the apostles, much less of Peter and Paul. Luke’s purposes lie elsewhere.
** Guy Prentiss Waters in [https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/files/pub/book_previews/Guy-Prentiss-Waters_A-Study-Commentary-on-The-Acts-of-the-Apostles_Prelude-to-Pentecost.pdf A Study Commentary on The Acts of the Apostles], p. 17, ''EP Books'', 2015

* Luke’s account of the ministry of the apostles focuses on two men in particular – Peter and Paul. Their ministries dominate the two halves of Acts (1–12; 13–28), which halves correspond to the Jewish and Gentile missions, respectively. Luke consciously and frequently sets the ministries of Peter and Paul in parallel by showing the similarities between the two men and their ministries. ... Many critical scholars in the nineteenth century viewed Acts as primarily an attempt to reconcile the two forms of Christianity alleged to be represented by the apostles Peter and Paul. This particular approach to Acts has long since been refuted. Even so, it is not unwarranted to see Luke intending to show that ‘Peter and Paul were in essential agreement over the basics of the faith’ in order to help reconcile differences within the church.
** Guy Prentiss Waters in [https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/files/pub/book_previews/Guy-Prentiss-Waters_A-Study-Commentary-on-The-Acts-of-the-Apostles_Prelude-to-Pentecost.pdf A Study Commentary on The Acts of the Apostles], pp. 23 & 19, ''EP Books'', 2015

* Paul's [apostolic] mission spans much of the latter half of Acts (Acts 13-28, esp. 13-20). In the course of that mission, Paul rises from [[w:Barnabas|Barnabas]]' junior colleague to a senior and veteran missionary. We also see Paul laboring in wider and wider spheres in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. It comes as something of a surprise, then, to see that activity grind to a halt in Acts 21-28[, where] Paul is in captivity, ... But Paul's captivity is not without meaning, ... It is the way in which Jesus accomplishes his sovereign purpose ...
** Guy Prentiss Waters in [https://www.reformation21.org/articles/happily-ever-after-thoughts-on-the-ending-of-the-acts-of-the-apostles-part-1.php Happily Ever After? Thoughts on the Ending of the Acts of the Apostles [pt. 1]], ''reformation21'', 30 March 2015.

* The closing verses of [[w:Acts 28|Acts 28]] serve, in part, to demonstrate [that] Paul's tenure in Rome renders his Gentile mission complete. Paul's Gentile mission is the way in which Christ ensured the fulfillment of the [[w:Great Commission|apostolic commission]] at Acts 1:8. What does it mean that this commission has been fulfilled? It means that the gospel has crossed a [[w:Redemptive-historical preaching|redemptive-historical]] threshold, decisively penetrating not only Jews and Samaritans, but also Gentiles. It means that a once-for-all foundation has been laid.
** Guy Prentiss Waters in [https://www.reformation21.org/articles/happily-ever-after-thoughts-on-the-ending-of-the-acts-of-the-apostles-part-2.php Happily Ever After? Thoughts on the Ending of the Acts of the Apostles [pt. 2]], ''reformation21'', 30 March 2015.

* Luke’s thesis is this: Jesus remains active, though the manner of his working has changed. Now, no longer in the flesh, he continues ‘to do and to teach’ through his ‘[[w:Body of Christ|body]]’ the church…. This is the story of Acts.
** David J. Williams, New International Bible Commentary, Acts, p. 19, ''Peabody, MA: Hendrickson'', 1990

* Acts is an Amazing book because literally the early Christians were on trial for their faith and they were literally tried and convicted for their faith! ... Never has a more gripping record been penned. If the amazing events in Acts fail to electrify the imagination and stir the emotions of any serious reader, nothing ever could. Acts is the sequel to the mighty events of the gospels and the gateway to the great teachings of the Epistles. It marks in fact, one of the greatest turning points in history.
** Steven Wright (barrister at law), in the foreword to [https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/files/pub/book_previews/Gerard-Chrispin_Amazing-Acts-Act-Two_Back-to-Peter-Three-Very-Different-People.pdf Amazing Acts — act two (Acts 9:32 to 18:23)], Gerard Chrispin, ''EP Books'', 2015

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[[File:Abtei Seckau Engelskapelle Bekehrung des Äthiopiers.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a [[w:Lamb of God|lamb]] before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.'' – [[w:Acts 8|Acts 8]]:32 quoting from [[Book of Isaiah|Isaiah]] [[w:Isaiah 53|53]]:7]]
The '''''[[w:Acts of the Apostles|Acts of the Apostles]]''''', as it is known since the late second century, is the fifth book of the [[New Testament]]. Often referred to simply as '''''Acts''''', it tells of the founding of the [[Christianity|Christian church]] and the spread of its message. It is commonly believed to have been [[w:Authorship of Luke–Acts|written by]] [[w:Luke the Evangelist|Luke the Evangelist]], and to be the [[w:Luke–Acts|sequel]] to [[Gospel of Luke]]. The third gospel and Acts are respectively the longest and second longest books of the [[New Testament]]. From the point where the gospel concludes, Acts carries the record of early Christianity for another 30 years or so.

== Quotes ==
* All the [[w:Early centers of Christianity#Jerusalem|believers]] were together and had [[w:Christian views on poverty and wealth|everything in common]]. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.
** [[w:Acts 2|2]]:44-45 [[New International Version|NIV]]

* “... you have filled Jerusalem with your [[w:Early Christianity and Judaism|teaching]], and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” But [[w:Saint Peter|Peter]] and the [[w:Apostle (Christian)|apostles]] answered, “We must [[w:Obedience (human behavior)|obey]] God rather than men. ...”
** [[w:Acts 5|5]]:29 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of [[w:kohen|priests]] became obedient to the faith.
** [[w:Acts 6|6]]:7 [[New International Version|NIV]], the first of six "summary statements" in Acts

* Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of [[Israel]], have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond [[Babylon]].
** 7:42-43, [[KJV]]

* And [[[w:Saint Stephen|Stephen]]] said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the [[w:Son of man (Christianity)|Son of Man]] standing at the [[w:Right hand of God|right hand of God]].”
** [[w:Acts 7|7]]:56 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being [[Baptism|baptized]]?”
** [[w:Acts 8|8]]:36 [http://biblehub.com/acts/8-36.htm BSB]

* “Who are you, [[w:Jesus is Lord|Lord]]?” [[Paul of Tarsus|Saul]] asked. “I am [[Jesus]], whom you are [[w:Persecution of Christians|persecuting]],” he replied.
** [[w:Acts 9|9]]:5 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

* Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the [[Fear of God|fear of the Lord]] and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
** [[w:Acts 9|9]]:31 [[w:New International Version|NIV]], the second of six "summary statements" in Acts

* So [[Saint Peter|Peter]] opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who [[w:Fear of God#Christianity|fears him]] and [[w:Righteousness|does what is right]] is acceptable to him. ...”
** [[w:Acts 10|10]]:34-35 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the [[Jews]] and religious proselytes followed [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul]] and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of [[God]]. And the next [[sabbath]] day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
** 13:43-46, [[KJV]]

*The Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
** 13:50, [[KJV]]

* Paul said to [[w:Barnabas|Barnabas]], "Let us return and visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed [[w:Logos (Christianity)|the word]] of the Lord, and see how they are."
** [[w:Acts 15|15]]:36 [[w:New American Standard Bible|NASB]]

* During the night [[Paul the Apostle|Paul]] had a vision of a man of [[w:Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]] standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
** [[w:Acts 16|16]]:9 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

[[File:BaptistryAtPhilippi.JPG|thumb|right|250px|''One of those listening was a woman from the city of [[w:Thyatira|Thyatira]] named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a [[w:Judaizers|worshiper of God]]. The [[w:Jesus is Lord|Lord]] opened her heart to respond to Paul’s [[message]].'' – Acts 16:14]]
* One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named [[w:Lydia of Thyatira|Lydia]], a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord [[w:Effectual calling|opened her heart]] to respond to Paul’s message.
** 16:14 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* So Paul, standing in the midst of the [[w:Areopagus|Areopagus]], [[w:Areopagus sermon|said]]: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the [[w:Unknown God|unknown god]].’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. ...”
** [[w:Acts 17|17]]:22-23 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* As some of your own [[w:Ancient Greek literature|poets]] have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
** Paul in Acts 17:28 [[w:New International Version|NIV]], quoting i.a. from the ''Phenomena'' of [[w:Aratus|Aratus]]

* Now a Jew named [[w:Apollos|Apollos]], a native of [[w:Alexandria|Alexandria]], came to [[w:Ephesus|Ephesus]]. He was an eloquent man, competent in the [[w:Tanakh|Scriptures]]. He had been instructed in the [[w:Early Christianity|way of the Lord]]. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning [[w:Jesus|Jesus]], though he knew only the [[w:Baptism in early Christianity|baptism]] of [[w:John the Baptist|John]]. ... he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the [[w:Jesus in Christianity|Christ was Jesus]].
** [[w:Acts 18|18]]:24-25, 28 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* And a number of those who had practiced [[w:magic (paranormal)|magic arts]] brought their books and burned them in front of everyone.
** [[w:Acts 19|19]]:19 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

* “After I have been [to Jerusalem],” [Paul] said, “I must visit Rome also.”
** 19:21 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

* The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have [[w:Christian testimony|testified]] about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.”
** [[w:Acts 23|23]]:11 [[w:New International Version|NIV]]

* Paul argued in his defense [before [[w:Porcius Festus|Festus]]], “Neither against the [[w:Torah|law of the Jews]], nor against the [[w:Temple in Jerusalem|temple]], nor against [[w:Nero|Caesar]] have I committed any offense.”
** [[w:Acts 25|25]]:8 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* [Festus] declared: “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!”
** 25:12 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* “ ... according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a [[w:Pharisee|Pharisee]]. And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our [[w:Patriarchs (Bible)|fathers]], to which our [[w:Israelites|twelve tribes]] hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am [[w:Judaism's view of Jesus|accused by Jews]], O king! ...”
** [[w:Acts 26|26]]:5-7 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* And [[w:Herod Agrippa II|Agrippa]] said to Paul, “In a short time would you [[w:Religious conversion|persuade]] me to be a [[w:Christian|Christian]]?”
** 26:28 [[w:English Standard Version|ESV]]

* [An angel of God] said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.’
** [[w:Acts 27|27]]:24 [[New International Version|NIV]]

* From morning until evening [Paul] explained things to [the Jewish leaders of Rome], testifying about the [[w:Kingdom of God (Christianity)|kingdom of God]] and trying to convince them about Jesus from both the [[w:Law of Moses|law of Moses]] and the [[w:Nevi'im|prophets]]. Some were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe. So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: “The [[w:Holy Spirit in Christianity|Holy Spirit]] spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet [[Isaiah]] when he said, ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, ...”’ “Therefore be advised that this [[w:Salvation in Christianity|salvation from God]] has been sent to the [[w:Gentile|Gentiles]]; they will listen!”
** Paul in Acts [[w:Acts 35|35]]:23-(27)28 [[w:New English Translation|NET]], verse 26 quoting from [[Book of Isaiah|Isaiah]] 6:9

* Paul lived [in Rome] two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.
** Acts 35:30-31 [https://bible.org/seriespage/35-paul-rome-acts-281-31 NET]

==Quotes about ''Acts''==
[[File:Nikolai_Bodarevsky_001.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''This is the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. [[w:Herod Agrippa II|King Agrippa]], it is because of this hope that these Jews are accusing me.'' – Acts 26:7 ([[w:New International Version|NIV]])]]
* Following the four gospels [...] comes a book which is for the most part a straightforward history and is particularly valuable for that reason. It deals with the slow growth of Christianity during the generation that followed the [[w:Crucifixion of Jesus|crucifixion of Jesus]] – from its beginnings in [[w:Jerusalem|Jerusalem]] until its slowly widening influence finally reached [[w:Rome|Rome]] itself. In so doing, it indicates the steady shift of Christianity away from its national Jewish foundation to the status of a universal [[w:Gentile|Gentile]] religion, and the hero of that shift is the apostle [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul]].
**[[w:Isaac Asimov|Isaac Asimov]], Asimov's Guide to the Bible, Chapter 9. Acts, p. 995, ''Wings Books'', 1981

* The close relationship between Jesus and the Church is highlighted in the story of [[w:Conversion of Paul the Apostle|Paul’s conversion]]. … Note here Jesus’ exact words: “Why do you persecute ''me''?” Saul could have easily answered, “I’m not persecuting ''you'' – I am going after ''your disciples''.” However, it seems Jesus’ words illustrate precisely the critical point which is emphasized over and over again in the book of Acts: Jesus is to be identified with his Church. … Thus, as Christ lived in his earthly body, he now lives in the Church. What he did in his earthly body he now does in his [[w:Mystici corporis Christi|Mystical Body]].
** Michael Barber ([[w:Augustine Institute|Augustine Institute]] in Denver, Colo.), in [https://www.thesacredpage.com/2010/04/acts-of-apostles-insights-and.html Acts of the Apostles: Insights and Implications of Talbert's Work], ''The Sacred Page'' (blog), 15 April 2010

* The needed structure that spans that gulf [between Old and New Testament] is the Book of Acts. Now how can Acts be that bridge between the Old and the New Testament if the first book of the New Testament is the [[Gospel of Matthew]] followed by three more gospels? The answer is that the purpose of the gospels is to reveal the nature, the life and the times of [[w:Yeshua|Yeshua]], who is the Messiah. But the Book of Acts delves into how the followers of a [[w:Messiah in Judaism|Jewish Messiah]] whose messianic office is derived only from a Jewish Israelite religion and a Jewish Israelite holy book, somehow came to purposely include a gentile world.
**Tom Bradford in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBkjNs9Svb8 Lesson 1: Acts Intro], ''Torah Class'', 2017

* While the gospel was no doubt carried along all roads which branched out from its [[w:Palestine (region)|Palestinian homeland]], Acts concentrates on the road from Jerusalem to [[w:Church of Antioch|Antioch]] and thence to Rome.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 10, 1962

* ...its dependence on the ''[[w:Antiquities of the Jews|Antiquities]]'' of [[Josephus]] ... is most improbable. ... The optimistic note on which Acts ends, with Paul proclaiming the [[w:Kingdom of God (Christianity)|kingdom of God]] in Rome without let or hindrance, suggests a date before the outbreak of [[w:Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire#Nero|persecution in AD 64]].
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 10, 1962

* Luke is obviously concerned, in both parts of his work, to demonstrate that Christianity is not a menace to [[w:List of Roman laws|imperial law and order]]. He does this particularly by citing the judgments of [[w:Roman governor|governors]], [[w:Roman magistrate|magistrates]] and other authorities in various parts of the [[w:Roman Empire|Empire]].
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 11, 1962

* While [Luke] has apologetic and theological interests, these do not detract from his detailed accuracy, although they control his selection and presentation of the facts.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 11, 1962

[[File:View of the historical seat of the Metropolis of Corinth in the Roman Forum of Ancient Corinth on 6 April 2019.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''The practical implication of [[w:Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus|Gallio]]'s decision is that Christianity shares the protection assured by Roman law to Judaism.'' ~ F. F. Bruce]]
* The practical implication of his [i.e. [[w:Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus|Gallio]]'s] decision [to dismiss the charge of propagating an [[w:Religio licita|illicit religion]] brought against Paul by the Jewish leaders in [[w:Corinth|Corinth]]] is that Christianity shares the protection assured by Roman law to Judaism.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 11, 1962

* ...in Acts it is Jews who are Paul's bitterest enemies in one place after another. While Acts records the steady advance of the gospel in the great Gentile centres of imperial civilization, it records at the same time its progressive rejection by the majority of the Jewish communities throughout the Empire.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', p. 11, 1962

* On the theological side, the dominating theme of Acts is the activity of the [[w:Holy Spirit in Christianity|Holy Spirit]]. The promise of the outpouring of the Spirit, made by the risen Christ in 1:4, is fulfilled for Jewish disciples in [[w:Acts 2|chapter 2]] and for Gentile believers in [[w:Acts 10|chapter 10]]. ... The book might indeed be called ‘The Acts of the Holy Spirit’. ... He is the principal witness to the truth of the gospel. The supernatural manifestations which accompany the spread of the gospel signify not only the Spirit's activity but also the inauguration of the new age in which Jesus reigns as [[w:Jesus is Lord|Lord]] and [[w:Messiah|Messiah]].
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', pp. 11-12, 1962

* ...it remains a document of incalculable value for the beginnings of Christianity. ... The rise and progress of Christianity is a study beset with problems, but some of these problems would be even more intractable than they are if we had not the information of Acts to help us. For example, how did it come about that a movement that began in the heart of [[w:Judaism|Judaism]] was recognized after a few decades as a distinctively [[w:Split of early Christianity and Judaism|Gentile religion]]? ... [Luke's] narrative is, in fact, a source-book of the highest value for a significant phase of the history of world civilization.
** [[w:F. F. Bruce|F. F. Bruce]], New Bible Dictionary, entry: Acts, Book of the, ''Inter-Varsity Press'', pp. 11-12, 1962

* Acts describes nothing beyond Paul's two-year stay in Rome, even though a number of significant events occurred not long afterwards, including the [[w:Christian martyrs|martyrdoms]] of [[w:James the Less|James the Less]] and [[w:Mark the Evangelist|Mark the Evangelist]]. Neither does Luke record the outcome of Paul's appeal before the emperor. Thus, we may reasonably conclude that Acts was completed about two years after Paul arrived in Rome, not at any later date. Luke may have spent much of those two years working on his Gospel and on Acts of the Apostles. He may have had some portion of Acts written in advance (notes he had taken along the way and the like). However, this two-year period of time is the most likely time frame for the writing of the bulk of Acts and for its completion.
** Ronald L. Conte Jr., [http://www.catholicplanet.com/TSM/NT-Luke.htm The Writing of the New Testament - Luke and Acts], ''Catholic Planet'', 25 December 2005

* Here [the reader] will find an historical record of a new power at work in the world. It not only revolutionized religion but transformed man. ... For its sake frail [[martyr|men and women]] faced loss, persecution and death with serene and happy courage. Such are the facts of history which our reader will learn from this book.
** [[w:Anthony C. Deane|Anthony C. Deane]], How to enjoy the Bible, Chapter III, p. 53, ''Hodder & Stoughton'', 1934

* It was a high honor to compose the most significant chapters in the history of the [[w:Christian Church|Christian Church]]; yet the author of The Acts, who alone relates the origin of the most significant society and of the mightiest movement in the world, makes no mention of his own name.
** [[w:Charles R. Erdman|Charles R. Erdman]], The Acts, ''Westminster Press'', 1930

* Athens was the cradle of democracy, the centre of learning, and the uncontested leader of the civilized world. It is not surprising therefore that Luke, who records Paul's visit to the city in [[w:Acts 17|Acts 17]], makes Paul's [[w:Areopagus sermon|speech]] to the Athenians one of the high points of his book. Here we read of the clash between Christianity and [[paganism]] ...
** Dr. Riemer Faber, professor of Classics at the [[w:University of Waterloo|University of Waterloo]], in ''[https://spindleworks.com/library/rfaber/aratus.htm The Apostle and the Poet: Paul and Aratus]'', Clarion Vol. 42, No. 13 (1993)

* It describes [Christianity's] message and [[w:Christian ministry|ministry]], and its life – including its triumphs and trials, the passions that drove it, and the source of the power that energized it.
**Ajith Fernando, Acts, p. 21, ''Harper Collins'', 1998

* ... both Acts and the third Gospel have been written [[w:Authorship of the Bible#Luke and Acts|anonymously]]. But Acts is unique in that it contains ninety-seven verses during Paul's journeys where the third person is replaced by the first person plural – the so-called "[[w:Authorship of Luke–Acts#Critical view - the "we" passages as fragments of earlier source|we passages]]," which claim to be the observations of an eye-witness.
**Ajith Fernando, Acts, p. 22, ''Harper Collins'', 1998

* It should of course be recognized that [[w:Modern archaeology|modern archaeology]] has almost forced upon critics of St. Luke a verdict of remarkable accuracy in all his allusions to secular facts and events.
** [[w:Charles Gore|Charles Gore]], ''A New Commentary on Holy Scripture'', edited by Gore, Goudge, and Guillaume (1929) p. 210

* ... the [[w:Gospel|Gospels]] did little more than to anticipate the church, whereas the [[w:Epistle|Epistles]] presuppose it. A work was needed to describe the rise and development of this great spiritual entity that would at the same time be a binding element between Gospels and Epistles. The Book of Acts fills exactly that need.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 222, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* In the Acts Luke undertakes to trace the fulfillment of the earthly mission of Jesus in terms of the establishment of his church by men whom he had trained, and the [[w:Dispersion of the Apostles|spread of the movement]] under the impulsion of the [[w:Holy Spirit|Holy Spirit]] whom he had promised. ... [Acts] was intended to be informative and edifying, tracing the progress of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 225, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* Again and again the historian pictures the gospel being presented to the [[w:Jews|Jews]], only to be [[w:Rejection of Jesus|rejected]] by them. At the same time it is emphasized that [[w:Gentile|Gentiles]] have an eagerness to accept the message. It is especially impressive that this [[W:Christianity and Judaism|twofold reaction]] to the gospel should be the note on which the whole account closes.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 226, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* A strong case can be made out for a [[w:Dating the Bible#Table IV: New Testament|date of composition]] shortly after the close of the two-year period noted at the end of the book, during which time Paul remained in captivity awaiting trail, or around A.D. 63, despite [[w:James Moffatt|Moffatt]]'s claim that this is preposterous.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 226, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965
[[File:STP-ELP19.jpg|thumb|right|''But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.'' – Acts 1:8 [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+1%3A8&version=NRSV (NRSV)]]]
* The Acts is distinctly a missionary document, with the [[w:Great Commission|Great Commission]] of 1:8 the key to its structure. The gospel is preached and the church formed, first in Jerusalem, then in Judea, then in Samaria, then in the Gentile world.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 228, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* ... the title [i.e. "The Acts of the Apostles"] raises expectations that are not fulfilled, since the apostles as a body appear only in the early part of the book and their labors are not traced on an individual basis except for Peter and later for Paul. Nothing is said about the planting of the [[w:Christianity in Egypt|faith in Egypt]], where a strong church developed.
** [[w:Everett F. Harrison|Everett F. Harrison]], Introduction to the New Testament, p. 228, ''Pickering & Inglis Ltd'', 1965

* The themes of the Acts – the establishing of a primitive church, the centrality of preaching, persecution, faith, growth – have an obvious appeal to [[John Calvin|Calvin]]. The application of this material to the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] was obvious – the need for direct, Christ-centered preaching, simplicity of life, firm faith in the face of persecution by Rome, churchly unity and fellowship.
** [[w:Paul Helm|Paul Helm]] in [https://www.reformation21.org/articles/sermons-on-the-acts-of-the-apostles-review.php reviewing] John Calvin, Sermons on the Acts of the Apostles 1-7, ''Banner of Truth Trust'', Edinburgh, 2008

* Immediately following the Gospels, ... comes a vividly written account of the beginnings of the community in Jerusalem and of those phases of its spread that are connected with Paul, the man who took [[w:Christianity in Europe|Christianity to Europe]]. ... Acts is simply a continuation of the narrative begun in Luke. It is written in excellent [[w:Koine Greek|Greek]], and provides our only source of knowledge about the earliest stage in the expansion of Christianity. We can, however, check its information against the [[w:Pauline epistles|letters of Paul]], where parallel accounts of certain key events appear. Acts also gives us valuable summaries of the apostolic preaching ... Although these are obviously not verbatim reports of the speakers' words, they appear to reflect the themes and emphases of the original Christian [[w:Evangelism|preachers]].
** [[w:Howard Clark Kee|Howard Clark Kee]] and Franklin W. Young, Understanding the New Testament, Chapter 2: The Community and its Convictions, p. 65, ''Prentice-Hall Inc.'', 1957 (reprint 1961)

* In trying to determine where the Book of Acts was written, we find some evidence that its author (or the author of one of its sources) was from [[w:Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]]. ... but just as strong a case can be made out for Rome, where, according to the Pastorals, Luke was aiding Paul during Paul's imprisonment (II Tim. 4:11). A third possibility ... is Antioch, which features so prominently in the narrative of Acts, and which was the home town of Luke, according to some of the early [[w:Church Fathers|church fathers]].
** [[w:Howard Clark Kee|Howard Clark Kee]] and Franklin W. Young, Understanding the New Testament, Chapter 2: The Community and its Convictions, p. 72, ''Prentice-Hall Inc.'', 1957 (reprint 1961)

* What then is the aim of this book, the sequel of the third gospel? As the title is human, one may draw from its own contents that we have in it the working of the [[Holy Spirit]], rather than of the [[w:Apostles|Twelve]] of whom we hear little save of Peter, and of Paul [[w:Conversion of Paul the Apostle|called extraordinarily]], but of others too who were not apostles.
** [[w:William Kelly (Bible scholar)|William Kelly]], God's Inspiration of the Scriptures, §32. The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 357-358, London, 1903

* The ninth chapter shows us the new step of sovereign grace in the conversion of Saul to be the witness of an ascended Christ, Who owns the [[w:saint|saint]]s as part of Himself, and calls the persecutor to be His chosen vessel to bear His name before Gentiles, kings, and children of Israel, the deepest in truth, the largest in heart, the most abundant in labour of all the [[w:apostles|apostles]]. No wonder the [[w:Gospel|gospel of Christ's glory]] marked him, who first saw and heard the Lord thus; yet a [[w:Ananias of Damascus|simple disciple]] baptised him who forthwith, in the synagogues, preached Jesus as the [[w:Son of God (Christianity)|Son of God]].
** [[w:William Kelly (Bible scholar)|William Kelly]], God's Inspiration of the Scriptures, §32. The Acts of the Apostles (discussion of 9th chapter), pp. 363-364, London, 1903

* Arrived at the [[Rome|great city]] Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him, and after three days called together the chief of the Jews, and explained the strange fact that for the hope of Israel he was a prisoner through Jewish accusation. ... So that Paul could but show them now the sentence finally of the Holy Spirit, as of the Son of the earth ([[w:John 12|John xii]].) and of Jehovah of old ([[w:Isaiah 6|Isa. vi.]]). But if Israel cut themselves off, save a remnant (the pledge of future restoration), the salvation of God is sent to Gentiles who hear. Such is the bearing of this book first and last. Only it is well to add that the apostle's charge in [[w:Acts 20|chapter xx]]. is no less clear that after his departure evil would prevail in the [[church]], as previously in Israel. And we know from [[w:Romans 11|Romans xi]]. that the Gentile, if not continuing in [[w:Righteousness|God's goodness]] (as he surely has not), must also be cut off, and thus make way for the recall of Israel to the universal joy and blessing of the world under the [[w:Redeemer (Christianity)|Redeemer]].
** [[w:William Kelly (Bible scholar)|William Kelly]], God's Inspiration of the Scriptures, §32. The Acts of the Apostles (discussion of [[w:Acts 28|final chapter]]), pp. 375-376, London, 1903

* Luke's Gospel ends with the [[w:Ascension of Jesus|Lord's ascension into heaven]], and his Acts begins with it. His Gospel is a narrative of the [[w:Ministry of Jesus|ministry]] of the incarnated Jesus on earth; his Acts is a record of the succeeding [[w:Christian ministry|ministry]] of the [[w:Resurrection of Jesus|resurrected]] and [[w:Session of Christ|ascended Christ in heaven]] carried out through His believers on earth. In the Gospels, [[w:Ministry of Jesus|His ministry on earth]], carried out by Himself, only sowed Himself as the seed of the kingdom of God into His believers, with no church built up yet. In the Acts, His ministry in heaven, carried out through believers in His resurrection and ascension, spreads Him as the development of the kingdom of God for the building up of the church throughout the entire world to constitute His Body, His fullness, to express Him, moreover, even the fullness of God for God's expression.
** [[w:Witness Lee|Witness Lee]], The Acts of the Apostles, Recovery version, pp. 3-4, ''Living Stream Ministry'', December 1984

* In the Gospels Christ was the seed of the kingdom; in the book of Acts we have the [[w:Parable of the Growing Seed|propagation of this seed]] to produce the churches as the kingdom of God.
** [[w:Witness Lee|Witness Lee]], The Holy Word for Morning Revival, Crystallization-Study of Acts, Volume 2, p. 136, ''Living Stream Ministry'', February 2009

*  [Luke's authorship] is clear from the book's introduction where [he] says: "I produced my first volume (that is the gospel) about all the things that Jesus ''began'' to do and to teach." Now Luke is giving a clue here as to what this book of Acts will be about. Volume one was about what Jesus ''began'' to do and to teach, volume two will then be about what Jesus ''continued'' to do and teach, which leads to a really interesting point about the book's traditional but not original name, The Acts of the Apostles. While different apostles do appear in most of these stories, the only single character who unifies the whole story from beginning to end is Jesus himself, acting directly or through the Spirit, and so the book would more accurately be named The Acts of Jesus and the Spirit.
** Tim Mackie (PhD) and Jonathan Collins (BA), [https://thebibleproject.com/explore/acts/ Acts, Part 1 of 2], ''The Bible Project'', 2019

* The main themes and the design of the Book of Acts flow right out of [the] opening chapter. This is a story about Jesus leading his people by the Spirit, to go out into the world and invite all nations to live under his reign. And so the story [begins] with that message spreading in Jerusalem, and then into the neighboring regions of Judea and Samaria, full of non-Jewish people, and then from there out to all of the nations, into the ends of the earth.
** Tim Mackie (PhD) and Jonathan Collins (BA), [https://thebibleproject.com/explore/acts/ Acts, Part 1 of 2], ''The Bible Project'', 2019

* I have never heard any thing about the resolutions of the [[w:Disciple (Christianity)|disciples]], but a great deal about the Acts of the [[Apostles]].
** [[Horace Mann]] quoted by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert in ''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'', p. 3 (1895)

* The traditional name for this book is “Acts of the Apostles,” but a more accurate name might be “A Few Acts of a Few of the Apostles.” ... The book describes some developments in detail, but sometimes skips several years at a time. ... The historian must select the facts that are most important and the events that played critical roles in the development of later situations.
** Michael Morrison, [https://www.gci.org/bible/actsintro Exploring the Book of Acts: Introduction], 2012

* The first part of this book is about Peter, and the second part is about Paul. This two-fold division is one of the simplest ways to divide the book of Acts, ...
** Michael Morrison, [https://www.gci.org/bible/actsintro Exploring the Book of Acts: Introduction], 2012

* You may press the words of Luke in a degree beyond any other historian's, and they stand the keenest scrutiny and the hardest treatment, provided always that the critic knows the subject and does not go beyond the limits of science and justice.
** [[w:William Mitchell Ramsay|William M. Ramsay]], The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament, p. 89, ''Hodder and Stoughton'', 1915

* It was the Roman custom to govern the [[w:Roman province|provinces]] of their far-flung empire by continuing as far as they safely could the local system of administration, and consequently the authorities in different districts went by many different names. No one, unless he were either an observant traveller or a painstaking student of records, could possibly give all these gentry their correct denomination. It is one of the most searching tests of Luke’s historical sense that he always manages to achieve perfect accuracy. In several cases it is only the evidence of a coin, or an inscription, that has given us the necessary information to check him; the recognized [[w:Roman historiography|Roman historians]] do not adventure themselves on such a difficult terrain. Thus Luke calls [[w:Herod Antipas|Herod]] and [[w:Lysanias|Lysanias]] [[w:Herodian Tetrarchy|tetrarchs]]; so does [[Josephus]]. [[w:Herod Agrippa|Herod Agrippa]], who slew [[w:James, brother of Jesus|James]] with the sword and cast [[Saint Peter|Peter]] into prison, is called a king; Josephus tells us how he became friendly at Rome with Gaius Cæsar ([[Caligula]]) and was rewarded with a royal title when Caligula came to be emperor. The governor of Cyprus, [[w:Sergius Paulus|Sergius Paulus]], is called [[w:proconsul|proconsul]]. … Not long before, Cyprus had been an [[w:Roman Cyprus|imperial province]], and governed by a [[w:Promagistrate|proprætor]] or [[w:Legatus|legatus]], but in Paul’s time, as is shown by Cyprian coins, both in Greek and Latin, the correct title was proconsul. A Greek inscription found at [[w:Soli, Cyprus|Soloi]] on the north coast of Cyprus is dated ‘in the proconsulship of Paulus’ … At [[w:Thessaloniki|Thessalonica]] the city magnates took the quite unusual title of [[w:Politarch|politarchs]], a name unknown to classical literature. It would be quite unfamiliar to us, except from Luke’s use of it, if it were not for the fact that it appears in inscriptions. … [[w:Achaea (Roman province)|Achaia]] under Augustus was a [[w:Senatorial province|senatorial province]], under Tiberius it was directly under the emperor, but under Claudius, as [[Tacitus]] tells us, it reverted to the senate, and therefore [[w:Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus|Gallio]]’s correct title [Acts 18:12] was proconsul. … Luke is equally happy, equally accurate, in his geography and his travel experiences.
** [[w:Arthur Rendle Short|A. Rendle Short]], ''Modern Discovery and the Bible'', pp. 211–213 (1955)

* The Christian Bible very frequently steps on its own toe. We are told ... in Acts 5 that when Peter is brought before Gamliel, who we are told was the teacher of Paul, –Paul never makes this claim, but the author of Acts does– Gamliel in the Christian Bible, a book that will be very hostile to[wards] a Pharisee, one of the greatest rabbis of the time, period, ... the key point is that when  asked what should be done with him, "Should he be punished?", Gamliel says "Send him away. If what he is teaching is of God, you killing him will do nothing, and if he is not of God it will fall away by itself." And it did. Peter's version of Christianity, his Christology, died a long time ago with the Abionites and so on. ... The key [point] that does come through in the text of the book of Acts –and the book of Acts is not trying to portray religious non-Christian Jews as pious– [and yet it comes through that] the Pharisees do not want to persecute Christians. The reason why Paul claims to be a former Pharisee, the reason why it is claimed for Paul by the author of Acts that he is a Pharisee, is because it lends credibility to his Christology. ... The book of Acts is not about the apostles but about Paul. It is that Paul's understanding, his Christology, wins, and Peter's version loses. That is why very quickly in the book of Acts ... Peter is taken off the stage and it is all about Paul to the end.
** Rabbi [[w:Tovia Singer|Tovia Singer]] in ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0J2ZJTzuro Paul Corrupted the Hebrew Scriptures and Could Not have been a Pharisee]'', 9 January 2018, YouTube

[[File:1600 kaloi limenes.jpg|thumb|right|''...the movements of this ship, from the time when she left Fair Havens until she was beached at Malta, … has been verified by … evidence of the most exact and satisfying nature'' ~ Edwin Smith]]
* The ancient vessels were not steered as those in modern times by a single rudder hinged to the stern post, but by two great oars or paddles, one on each side of the stern; hence the mention of them in the plural number by St. Luke. [Acts 27:40] ... We have seen in our examination that every statement as to the movements of this ship, from the time when she left [[w:Kaloi Limenes|Fair Havens]] until she was beached at [[w:Malta|Malta]], as set forth by St. Luke has been verified by external and independent evidence of the most exact and satisfying nature; and that his statements as to the time the ship remained at sea correspond with the distance covered; and finally that his description of the [[w:St Paul's Island|place arrived at]] is in conformity with the place as it is. All of which goes to show that Luke actually made the voyage as described, and has moreover shown himself to be a man whose observations and statements may be taken as reliable and trustworthy in the highest degree.
** Edwin Smith, commander of a flotilla of British warships in the Mediterranean during World War I, ''The Rudder'', March 1947

* The first [outline can be] drawn from [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+1%3A8&version=NRSV Acts 1:8]... This [three-part] outline is based upon geographical progression – Jerusalem; Judea and Samaria; the end of the earth. Acts 1–7 documents the progression of the gospel within Jerusalem; Acts 8–12, to Judea and Samaria; Acts 13–28, to the ‘end of the earth’, that is the Gentiles... One virtue of this outline is its emphasis upon concerns that are central to the book – the apostolic witness to Christ, the work of the Spirit of Christ within the church, and the once-for-all [[w:Redemptive-historical preaching|redemptive-historical]] progression of the gospel from Jew to Gentile.
** Guy Prentiss Waters (Professor of New Testament at [[w:Reformed Theological Seminary|Reformed Theological Seminary]] in [[w:Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]], Miss.) in [https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/files/pub/book_previews/Guy-Prentiss-Waters_A-Study-Commentary-on-The-Acts-of-the-Apostles_Prelude-to-Pentecost.pdf A Study Commentary on The Acts of the Apostles], p. 22, ''EP Books'', 2015

* The ministry of the apostles is a constant of the [[w:Acts of the Apostles (genre)|narrative]], from the first chapter to the end of the book and at every point between them. ... Acts is not a biography of the apostles, much less of Peter and Paul. Luke’s purposes lie elsewhere.
** Guy Prentiss Waters in [https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/files/pub/book_previews/Guy-Prentiss-Waters_A-Study-Commentary-on-The-Acts-of-the-Apostles_Prelude-to-Pentecost.pdf A Study Commentary on The Acts of the Apostles], p. 17, ''EP Books'', 2015

* Luke’s account of the ministry of the apostles focuses on two men in particular – Peter and Paul. Their ministries dominate the two halves of Acts (1–12; 13–28), which halves correspond to the Jewish and Gentile missions, respectively. Luke consciously and frequently sets the ministries of Peter and Paul in parallel by showing the similarities between the two men and their ministries. ... Many critical scholars in the nineteenth century viewed Acts as primarily an attempt to reconcile the two forms of Christianity alleged to be represented by the apostles Peter and Paul. This particular approach to Acts has long since been refuted. Even so, it is not unwarranted to see Luke intending to show that ‘Peter and Paul were in essential agreement over the basics of the faith’ in order to help reconcile differences within the church.
** Guy Prentiss Waters in [https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/files/pub/book_previews/Guy-Prentiss-Waters_A-Study-Commentary-on-The-Acts-of-the-Apostles_Prelude-to-Pentecost.pdf A Study Commentary on The Acts of the Apostles], pp. 23 & 19, ''EP Books'', 2015

* Paul's [apostolic] mission spans much of the latter half of Acts (Acts 13-28, esp. 13-20). In the course of that mission, Paul rises from [[w:Barnabas|Barnabas]]' junior colleague to a senior and veteran missionary. We also see Paul laboring in wider and wider spheres in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. It comes as something of a surprise, then, to see that activity grind to a halt in Acts 21-28[, where] Paul is in captivity, ... But Paul's captivity is not without meaning, ... It is the way in which Jesus accomplishes his sovereign purpose ...
** Guy Prentiss Waters in [https://www.reformation21.org/articles/happily-ever-after-thoughts-on-the-ending-of-the-acts-of-the-apostles-part-1.php Happily Ever After? Thoughts on the Ending of the Acts of the Apostles [pt. 1]], ''reformation21'', 30 March 2015.

* The closing verses of [[w:Acts 28|Acts 28]] serve, in part, to demonstrate [that] Paul's tenure in Rome renders his Gentile mission complete. Paul's Gentile mission is the way in which Christ ensured the fulfillment of the [[w:Great Commission|apostolic commission]] at Acts 1:8. What does it mean that this commission has been fulfilled? It means that the gospel has crossed a [[w:Redemptive-historical preaching|redemptive-historical]] threshold, decisively penetrating not only Jews and Samaritans, but also Gentiles. It means that a once-for-all foundation has been laid.
** Guy Prentiss Waters in [https://www.reformation21.org/articles/happily-ever-after-thoughts-on-the-ending-of-the-acts-of-the-apostles-part-2.php Happily Ever After? Thoughts on the Ending of the Acts of the Apostles [pt. 2]], ''reformation21'', 30 March 2015.

* Luke’s thesis is this: Jesus remains active, though the manner of his working has changed. Now, no longer in the flesh, he continues ‘to do and to teach’ through his ‘[[w:Body of Christ|body]]’ the church…. This is the story of Acts.
** David J. Williams, New International Bible Commentary, Acts, p. 19, ''Peabody, MA: Hendrickson'', 1990

* Acts is an Amazing book because literally the early Christians were on trial for their faith and they were literally tried and convicted for their faith! ... Never has a more gripping record been penned. If the amazing events in Acts fail to electrify the imagination and stir the emotions of any serious reader, nothing ever could. Acts is the sequel to the mighty events of the gospels and the gateway to the great teachings of the Epistles. It marks in fact, one of the greatest turning points in history.
** Steven Wright (barrister at law), in the foreword to [https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/files/pub/book_previews/Gerard-Chrispin_Amazing-Acts-Act-Two_Back-to-Peter-Three-Very-Different-People.pdf Amazing Acts — act two (Acts 9:32 to 18:23)], Gerard Chrispin, ''EP Books'', 2015

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Sarel Cilliers

2023-02-09T21:19:12Z

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[[File:Sarel-Cilliers.jpg|thumb|right|Portrait of Sarel Cilliers by an unknown artist]]
'''[[w:Sarel Cilliers|Charl (Sarel) Arnoldus Cilliers]]''' (7 September 1801 – 4 October 1871) was a [[w:Voortrekker|Voortrekker]] leader and a [[preacher]].

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* I conceded in my weakness to the wish of all the officials, also was I aware that the majority of burghers were in favour of it. ... on a canon carriage [was the vow delivered] ... in a simple way, with as much dignity as the Lord enabled me to do.
** Cilliers in his ''Journaal'', concerning the Vow which was taken each day from the 9th to 15th December 1838, when the Zulu enemy was in view.

* ... he had a leather bag around one shoulder, which he still carried and which contained his papers, including Mr [[w:Piet Retief|Retief]]'s negotiated treaty with [[w:Dingane kaSenzangakhona|Dingane]], the circumscription of the land – this was to us all a wonder to see, as the bodies had been lying there for so long, and since the papers were still so unblemished and clean…
** Cilliers' recollection of the recovery of the remains of the Retief delegation on December 21, 1838, more than 10 months after their murders, as reported in his ''Journaal'', and quoted by G.B.A. Gerdener in ''Sarel Cilliers, die Vader van Dingaansdag'', Cape Town, 1919, p. 104.

* [[w:Rolong tribe|Moroka]] and also your father [[w:Moshoeshoe I|Moshesh]] would confirm in which circumstances they were at the time of our crossing of the [[w:Orange River|Orange River]] – how we formed a wall of protection around them against the robbery and destruction of the [[w:Griqua people|Korannas]] and [[w:Baster|Basters]] – and how it subsequently went with them, as Rev. Archbell and Mr. Sephton can testify. In fact, in the year 1834, in a company of 10 men, namely A. and J. Struijs, A. and P. Pienaar, H. and P. van Heerden, A. Duvenage, A. Visagie, P. Cilliers and myself, we undertook a commission trek to the far side of the [[w:Vals River|Vals River]], during which we were able to view the region from the [[w:Modder River|Modder River]] almost to the Renoster River. At this time, this region was empty, so to speak without inhabitants, with only here and there a few particularly lean and emaciated kaffirs who were in the process of starving. Wherever we went at this time, I did not see any sheep, goats or cattle. Those who escaped the assegai of [[w:Mzilikazi|Mzilikazi]] and the ravages of the Basters and Korannas, yes also survived famine, subsisted by digging trapping pits at the waters' edge. We also observed more than once that they carried bones and remains of overnight lion and hyena catches back to their kraals, when they saw the vultures descending on these. Out of compassion we shot a lot of game for them, and a group of them also accompanied us. In two places we met with horrible scenes. At the first I saw a stream where the waters had washed the corpses into a heap. The second was a defile in a cliff which was so to speak filled up with human bones. Upon our return home, we sent a memorandum, signed by 72 men, to the Cape Governor requesting to go and live there. This request was however denied.
** Celliers in a letter (Doornkloof, 5 July 1864) to the editor of ''[https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/the-friend The Friend]'' in Bloemfontein, in reaction to a letter to the same by Sekelo Moshesh (3 June 1864), ''The Friend'' (16 September 1864). See also: G.B.A. Gerdener, ''Boustowwe vir Kerkgeskiedenis'' (1929), pp. 156-160.

* In the year 1836, if my recollection is right, we undertook to leave our motherland, and then crossed the Orange River. Would you now testify against us, whether we took anything without compensation from anyone during our passage? On the contrary, we exchanged with each tribe a lot of wheat and maize for our livestock, whereby we also enriched your father Moshesh. We trekked as far as the [[w:Vaal River|Vaal River]], where [[w:Mzilikazi|Mzilikazi]], the conqueror of you all, also unexpectedly overwhelmed our people. He killed a good part of us and robbed us of a very large part of our property, me being absent while on the commission trip to [[w:Zoutpansberg|Zoutpansberg]]. When we returned from thence to the Renoster River, at [[w:Battle of Vegkop|Vechtkop]], Mzilikazi attacked us again and also robbed us of all our livestock. When we were thus helpless, and in great distress, not your father Moshesh, but the Rev. Mr. Archbell with Moroka assisted us, for which I still thank them. They are still our friends, who have done us no harm to this day. Nor have Moroka's people robbed us, whereas our brethren suffered greatly under the pillaging of your father's people. To return to my story – we retreated from Vechtkop to Moroka's land. He received us as his friends and also made a donation of wheat for our hungry women and children. Moroka sent some of his people to join us on the first commando against Mzilikazi, our great enemy who was likewise your father's enemy.
** Celliers in a letter (Doornkloof, 5 July 1864) to the editor of ''[https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/the-friend The Friend]'' in Bloemfontein, in reaction to a letter to the same by Sekelo Moshesh (3 June 1864), ''The Friend'' (16 September 1864). See also: G.B.A. Gerdener, ''Boustowwe vir Kerkgeskiedenis'' (1929), pp. 156-160.

* Let me draw your attention to Mzilikazi, when he fell upon us, murdering and pillaging – did he benefit from it, or suffer harm? Was he able to remain in his country, or did he have to flee? Let me draw your attention to our negotiations with [[w:Dingane kaSenzangakhona|Dingane]], who in his demeanour had the likeness of a sheep, but in his heart was a ravaging wolf. How did it work out for him? Did he benefit, or suffer harm?
** Celliers in a letter (Doornkloof, 5 July 1864) to the editor of ''[https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/the-friend The Friend]'' in Bloemfontein, in reaction to a letter to the same by Sekelo Moshesh (3 June 1864), ''The Friend'' (follow-up, 23 September 1864). See also: G.B.A. Gerdener, ''Boustowwe vir Kerkgeskiedenis'' (1929), p. 159.

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Dingane

2023-02-06T10:51:24Z

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[[File:Gardiner_-_Dingane_in_Ordinary_and_Dancing_Dresses_(1836),_crop.png|thumb|300px|I and my people believe there is only one God – I am that God. ... I am the Great Chief – the God of the living; [[w:Matiwane|Umatiwane]] is the Great Chief of the wicked.]]
'''[[w:Dingane|Dingane ka Senzangakhona Zulu]]''' (c. 1795 – 29 January 1840), commonly referred to as '''Dingane''' or '''Dingaan''', was the second king of the [[w:Zulu Kingdom|Zulu Kingdom]], which was founded by his half-brother [[w:Shaka|Shaka]].

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==Quotes==
* If that is your belief you are of no use to me or to my people; we knew all that before you came to preach to us. I and my people believe there is only one God – I am that God. We believe there is one place to which all good people go; that is [[w:Zulu Kingdom|Zululand]]. We believe that there is one place where all bad people go. There (pointing to a rocky hill to the north, the hill of execution). There is hell where all my wicked people go. The chief who lives there is [[w:Matiwane|Umatiwane]], the head of the Amangwane. I put him to death, and made him the devil chief of all wicked people who die. You see that there are but two chiefs in this country – Matiwane and myself; I am the Great Chief – the God of the living; Umatiwane is the Great Chief of the wicked. I have now told you my belief; I do not want you to trouble me again with the fiction of you English people. You can remain in my country as long as you conduct yourself properly.
** Dingane to [[w:Francis Owen (missionary)|Francis Owen]], on an appointed Sunday when the missionary was allowed the occasion to expound his Christian beliefs before an assembly of nearly a thousand Zulu men inside the [[w:uMgungundlovu|uMgungundlovu]] enclosure, as quoted by their interpreter, R. B. Hulley, and published in ''Zululand under Dingaan'' by Rev. Mr. Kirkby, ''The Cape Monthly Magazine'', Vol. III, July to December 1880, pp. 324–326.

* I see that every white man is an enemy to the black, and every black man an enemy to the white, they do not love each other and never will.
** Dingane to Richard B. Hulley in February 1838, as quoted in Hulley's “An Account of Rev. Mr Owen’s Visit to Zululand in the Year 1837”.

==Quotes about Dingane==
* Pray to your God to keep me from the power of Dingaan.
** [[w:Mzilikazi|Mzilikazi]] to [[w:Robert Moffat (missionary)|Robert Moffat]], when the latter exhorted Mzilikazi to refrain from despotic and cruel acts, and to restrain his plundering indunas, lest the eternal God would frown upon him and deprive him of his power, as quoted by Moffatt in [https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/robert_moffat_missionary_labours_and_scenes_in_sbook4me.org_.pdf Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa] (1842), ''Cambridge Library Collection'', p. 556
* Dingarn's conduct was worthy of a savage as he is. It was base and treacherous, to say the least of it – the offspring of cowardice and fear. Suspicious of his warlike neighbours, jealous of their power, dreading the neighbourhood of their arms, he felt as every savage would have done in like circumstances that these men were his enemies, and being unable to attack them openly, he massacred them clandestinely. 
** Extract from Reverend [[w:Francis Owen (missionary)|Francis Owen]]'s diary entry for 6 February 1838, the day of the [[w:Piet Retief Delegation massacre|Retief massacre]].

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Dingane

2023-02-05T18:58:19Z

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[[File:Gardiner_-_Dingane_in_Ordinary_and_Dancing_Dresses_(1836),_crop.png|thumb|300px|I and my people believe there is only one God – I am that God. ... I am the Great Chief – the God of the living; [[w:Matiwane|Umatiwane]] is the Great Chief of the wicked.]]
'''[[w:Dingane|Dingane ka Senzangakhona Zulu]]''' (c. 1795 – 29 January 1840), commonly referred to as '''Dingane''' or '''Dingaan''', was the second king of the [[w:Zulu Kingdom|Zulu Kingdom]], which was founded by his half-brother [[w:Shaka|Shaka]].

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==Quotes==
* If that is your belief you are of no use to me or to my people; we knew all that before you came to preach to us. I and my people believe there is only one God – I am that God. We believe there is one place to which all good people go; that is [[w:Zulu Kingdom|Zululand]]. We believe that there is one place where all bad people go. There (pointing to a rocky hill to the north, the hill of execution). There is hell where all my wicked people go. The chief who lives there is [[w:Matiwane|Umatiwane]], the head of the Amangwane. I put him to death, and made him the devil chief of all wicked people who die. You see that there are but two chiefs in this country – Matiwane and myself; I am the Great Chief – the God of the living; Umatiwane is the Great Chief of the wicked. I have now told you my belief; I do not want you to trouble me again with the fiction of you English people. You can remain in my country as long as you conduct yourself properly.
** Dingane to [[w:Francis Owen (missionary)|Francis Owen]], on an appointed Sunday when the missionary was allowed the occasion to expound his Christian beliefs before an assembly of nearly a thousand Zulu men inside the [[w:uMgungundlovu|uMgungundlovu]] enclosure, as quoted by their interpreter, R. B. Hulley, and published in ''Zululand under Dingaan'' by Rev. Mr. Kirkby, ''The Cape Monthly Magazine'', Vol. III, July to December 1880, pp. 324–326.

* I see that every white man is an enemy to the black, and every black man an enemy to the white, they do not love each other and never will.
** Dingane to Richard B. Hulley in February 1838, as quoted in Hulley's “An Account of Rev. Mr Owen’s Visit to Zululand in the Year 1837”.

==Quotes about Dingane==
* Pray to your God to keep me from the power of Dingaan.
** [[w:Mzilikazi|Mzilikazi]] to [[w:Robert Moffat (missionary)|Robert Moffat]], when the latter exhorted him to refrain from despotic and cruel acts, and to restrain his plundering indunas, lest the eternal God would frown upon him and deprive him of his power, as quoted by Moffatt in [https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/robert_moffat_missionary_labours_and_scenes_in_sbook4me.org_.pdf Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa] (1842), ''Cambridge Library Collection'', p. 556

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Dingane

2023-02-05T18:49:41Z

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[[File:Gardiner_-_Dingane_in_Ordinary_and_Dancing_Dresses_(1836),_crop.png|thumb|300px|I and my people believe there is only one God – I am that God. ... I am the Great Chief – the God of the living; [[w:Matiwane|Umatiwane]] is the Great Chief of the wicked.]]
'''[[w:Dingane|Dingane ka Senzangakhona Zulu]]''' (c. 1795 – 29 January 1840), commonly referred to as '''Dingane''' or '''Dingaan''', was the second king of the [[w:Zulu Kingdom|Zulu Kingdom]], which was founded by his half-brother [[w:Shaka|Shaka]].

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==Quotes==
* If that is your belief you are of no use to me or to my people; we knew all that before you came to preach to us. I and my people believe there is only one God – I am that God. We believe there is one place to which all good people go; that is Zululand. We believe that there is one place where all bad people go. There (pointing to a rocky hill to the north, the hill of execution). There is hell where all my wicked people go. The chief who lives there is [[w:Matiwane|Umatiwane]], the head of the Amangwane. I put him to death, and made him the devil chief of all wicked people who die. You see that there are but two chiefs in this country – Matiwane and myself; I am the Great Chief – the God of the living; Umatiwane is the Great Chief of the wicked. I have now told you my belief; I do not want you to trouble me again with the fiction of you English people. You can remain in my country as long as you conduct yourself properly.
** Dingane to [[w:Francis Owen (missionary)|Francis Owen]], on an appointed Sunday when the missionary was allowed the occasion to expound his Christian beliefs before an assembly of nearly a thousand Zulu men inside the [[w:uMgungundlovu|uMgungundlovu]] enclosure, as quoted by their interpreter, R. B. Hulley, and published in ''Zululand under Dingaan'' by Rev. Mr. Kirkby, ''The Cape Monthly Magazine'', Vol. III, July to December 1880, pp. 324–326.

* I see that every white man is an enemy to the black, and every black man an enemy to the white, they do not love each other and never will.
** Dingane to Richard B. Hulley in February 1838, as quoted in Hulley's “An Account of Rev. Mr Owen’s Visit to Zululand in the Year 1837”.

==Quotes about Dingane==
* Pray to your God to keep me from the power of Dingaan.
** [[w:Mzilikazi|Mzilikazi]] to [[w:Robert Moffat (missionary)|Robert Moffat]], when the latter exhorted him to refrain from despotic and cruel acts, and to restrain his plundering indunas, lest the eternal God would frown upon him and deprive him of his power, as quoted by Moffatt in [https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/robert_moffat_missionary_labours_and_scenes_in_sbook4me.org_.pdf Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa] (1842), ''Cambridge Library Collection'', p. 556

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Dingane

2023-02-05T18:35:36Z

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[[File:Gardiner_-_Dingane_in_Ordinary_and_Dancing_Dresses_(1836),_crop.png|thumb|300px|I and my people believe there is only one God – I am that God. ... I am the Great Chief – the God of the living; [[w:Matiwane|Umatiwane]] is the Great Chief of the wicked.]]
'''[[w:Dingane|Dingane ka Senzangakhona Zulu]]''' (c. 1795 – 29 January 1840), commonly referred to as '''Dingane''' or '''Dingaan''', was the second king of the [[w:Zulu Kingdom|Zulu Kingdom]], which was founded by his half-brother [[w:Shaka|Shaka]].

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==Quotes==
* If that is your belief you are of no use to me or to my people; we knew all that before you came to preach to us. I and my people believe there is only one God – I am that God. We believe there is one place to which all good people go; that is Zululand. We believe that there is one place where all bad people go. There (pointing to a rocky hill to the north, the hill of execution). There is hell where all my wicked people go. The chief who lives there is [[w:Matiwane|Umatiwane]], the head of the Amangwane. I put him to death, and made him the devil chief of all wicked people who die. You see that there are but two chiefs in this country – Matiwane and myself; I am the Great Chief – the God of the living; Umatiwane is the Great Chief of the wicked. I have now told you my belief; I do not want you to trouble me again with the fiction of you English people. You can remain in my country as long as you conduct yourself properly.
** Dingane to [[w:Francis Owen (missionary)|Francis Owen]], when the missionary was allowed an occasion to expound his Christian beliefs at [[w:uMgungundlovu|uMgungundlovu]], as quoted by their interpreter, R. B. Hulley, and published in ''Zululand under Dingaan'' by Rev. Mr. Kirkby, ''The Cape Monthly Magazine'', Vol. III, July to December 1880, pp. 324–326.

* I see that every white man is an enemy to the black, and every black man an enemy to the white, they do not love each other and never will.
** Dingane to Richard B. Hulley in February 1838, as quoted in Hulley's “An Account of Rev. Mr Owen’s Visit to Zululand in the Year 1837”.

==Quotes about Dingane==
* Pray to your God to keep me from the power of Dingaan.
** [[w:Mzilikazi|Mzilikazi]] to [[w:Robert Moffat (missionary)|Robert Moffat]], when the latter exhorted him to refrain from despotic and cruel acts, and to restrain his plundering indunas, lest the eternal God would frown upon him and deprive him of his power, as quoted by Moffatt in [https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/robert_moffat_missionary_labours_and_scenes_in_sbook4me.org_.pdf Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa] (1842), ''Cambridge Library Collection'', p. 556

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Dingane

2023-02-05T18:28:03Z

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[[File:Zulu King Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Maropeng, South Africa.jpg|thumb]]

'''[[w:Dingane|Dingane ka Senzangakhona Zulu]]''' (c. 1795 – 29 January 1840), commonly referred to as '''Dingane''' or '''Dingaan''', was the second king of the [[w:Zulu Kingdom|Zulu Kingdom]], which was founded by his half-brother [[w:Shaka|Shaka]].

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==Quotes==
* If that is your belief you are of no use to me or to my people; we knew all that before you came to preach to us. I and my people believe there is only one God — I am that God. We believe there is one place to which all good people go; that is Zululand. We believe that there is one place where all bad people go. There (pointing to a rocky hill to the north, the hill of execution). There is hell where all my wicked people go. The chief who lives there is [[w:Matiwane|Umatiwane]], the head of the Amangwane. I put him to death, and made him the devil chief of all wicked people who die. You see that there are but two chiefs in this country – Matiwane and myself; I am the Great Chief – the God of the living; Umatiwane is the Great Chief of the wicked. I have now told you my belief; I do not want you to trouble me again with the fiction of you English people. You can remain in my country as long as you conduct yourself properly.
** Dingane to [[w:Francis Owen (missionary)|Francis Owen]], when the missionary was allowed an occasion to expound his Christian beliefs at [[w:uMgungundlovu|uMgungundlovu]], as quoted by their interpreter, R. B. Hulley, and published in ''Zululand under Dingaan'' by Rev. Mr. Kirkby, ''The Cape Monthly Magazine'', Vol. III, July to December 1880, pp. 324–326.

* I see that every white man is an enemy to the black, and every black man an enemy to the white, they do not love each other and never will.
** Dingane to Richard B. Hulley in February 1838, as quoted in Hulley's “An Account of Rev. Mr Owen’s Visit to Zululand in the Year 1837”.

==Quotes about Dingane==
* Pray to your God to keep me from the power of Dingaan.
** [[w:Mzilikazi|Mzilikazi]] to [[w:Robert Moffat (missionary)|Robert Moffat]], when the latter exhorted him to refrain from despotic and cruel acts, and to restrain his plundering indunas, lest the eternal God would frown upon him and deprive him of his power, as quoted by Moffatt in [https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/robert_moffat_missionary_labours_and_scenes_in_sbook4me.org_.pdf Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa] (1842), ''Cambridge Library Collection'', p. 556

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Kenneth Arnold

2023-01-31T15:35:46Z

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'''[[w:Kenneth Arnold|Kenneth Albert Arnold]]''' (March 29, 1915 – January 16, 1984) was an American aviator and businessman. He is best known for making what is generally considered the first widely reported modern [[unidentified flying object]] sighting in the United States, after claiming to have seen [[w:Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting|nine unusual objects]] flying in tandem near [[w:Mount Rainier|Mount Rainier]], [[w:Washington (state)|Washington]] on June 24, 1947.

==Quotes==
[[Image:Arnold AAF drawing.jpg|thumb|right|''I have received lots of requests ... to make a lot of wild guesses. I have based what I have written here ... on positive facts and as far as guessing what it was ..., it is just as much a mystery to me as it is to the rest of the world.'' — Arnold's report to the US Army Air Forces (AAF) intelligence, dated July 12, 1947.]]

* They flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water.
** To [[w:East Oregonian|East Oregonian]] reporter Bill Bequette at the [[w:Eastern Oregon Regional Airport|airport]] at [[w:Pendleton, Oregon|Pendleton]] on June 25, 1947, where Arnold was refueling his private plane. Bill Bequette and editor Nolan Skiff's front page story in the evening paper of the same day, titled ''Impossible! Maybe, But Seein’ Is Believin’, Says Flyer,'' started the modern UFO era. The EO ran front page follow-ups on June 27, 28 and 30.[https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/the-sighting/article_1dc33f61-868d-5c36-b159-87c8465fb662.html]

* [They appeared to fly almost as if fastened together – if one dipped, the others dipped too.]
** In Pendleton on June 25, 1947, as quoted in the Associated Press national wire story, [https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/positivelytruestoryofkennetharnold3.html “Pilot Sees ‘Saucer-like Objects’ Flying at 1,200 m.p.h. in Oregon”], ''Montreal Gazette'' (June 26, 1947)

* [They were flying at incredible speed. I cannot hazard a guess as to what they were. My inquiries at Yakima last night brought only blank stares, but I spoke today with a man from Ukiah, south of here, who said he had seen similar objects over the mountains near Ukiah yesterday.] It seems impossible, but there it is.
** In Pendleton on June 25, 1947, as quoted on [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Sun_1947-06-26-2_Flying_Saucer_headline-th.jpg page 2] of ''The Chicago Sun'' (June 26, 1947)

* ... I looked at my watch and it showed one minute and 42 seconds. Well, I felt that was pretty fast and I didn't stop to think what the distance was between the two mountains. ... they sure must have had a tailwind, but it didn't seem to help me much. But to the best of my knowledge, and the best of my description, that is what I actually saw, [and,] like I told the Associated Press, [I'd] be glad to confirm it with my hands on a Bible because I did see it, and whether it has anything to do with our army or our intelligence or whether it has to do with some foreign country, I don't know. But I did see it and I did clock it and I just happened to be in a beautiful position to do it and it's just as much a mystery to me as it is to everyone else who's been calling me the last 24 hours, wondering what it was.
** Arnold [https://rr0.org/time/1/9/4/7/06/25/Arnold_Interview/index.html interviewed] by Ted Smith and broadcast on KWRC radio on June 26, 1947. The [https://pulp.hypotheses.org/1180 vinyl recording] was [https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnoldrepbequette.htm discovered] among [[w:Raymond A. Palmer|Raymond Palmer]]'s personal documents by Pierre Lagrange in 1988.

* I haven't had a moment of peace since I first told the story, ... This whole thing has gotten out of hand. I want to talk to the FBI or someone. Half the people I see look at me as a combination [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[w:Flash Gordon (serial)|Flash Gordon]], and [[w:George Beurling|Screwball]]. I wonder what my wife back in [[w:Idaho|Idaho]] thinks. Most people tell me I'm right.
** On June 27, 1947, as quoted (i.a.) in Harassed Saucer-Sighter Would Like to Escape Fuss, ''[[w:Idaho Statesman|Idaho Statesman]]'' (June 28, 1947)

* ... a chain [at least five miles long] of nine peculiar looking aircraft ... were approaching Mt. Rainier very rapidly, and I merely assumed they were jet planes. ... I watched these objects with great interest as I had never before observed airplanes flying so close to the mountain tops ... Their speed at the time did not impress me particularly, because I knew that our army and air forces had planes that went very fast. ... What kept bothering me [however,] was the fact that I couldn't make out any tail on them, ... The more I observed these objects the more upset I became, as I am accustomed and familiar with most all objects flying ... Even at the time this timing [of 1 min 42 s] did not upset me as I felt confident after I would land there would be some explanation of what I saw. ... I look at this whole ordeal as not something funny as some people have made it out to be. To me it is mighty serious and since I evidently did observe something[, there] is no reason that it does not exist. Even though I openly invited an investigation by the Army and the FBI as to the authenticity of my story ..., I have received no interest from these two important protective forces of our country ...
** Arnold's [https://www.project1947.com/fig/ka.htm report] to [[w:United States Army Air Forces|Army Air Forces]] (AAF) intelligence, dated July 12, 1947, project1947.com

* It is with considerable disappointment you cannot give the explanation of these aircraft as I felt certain they belonged to our government. They have apparently meant no harm, but used as an instrument of destruction in combination with our atomic bomb the effects could destroy life on our planet. ... We have not taken this lightly. It is to us of very serious concern, as we are as interested in the welfare of our country as you are.
** In a [https://rr0.org/time/1/9/4/7/07/12/Arnold_Telegram/index.html telegram] to the Commanding General of [[w:Wilbur Wright Field|Wright Field]] in Ohio, who requested information on his sighting of June 24, 1947.

* If our government knows anything about these devices, the people should be told at once. A lot of people out here are very much disturbed. Some think these things may be from another planet. But they aren't harming anyone and I think it would be the wrong thing to shoot one of them down – even if it can be done. Their high speed would completely wreck them.
** In telephonic conversation with Henry Heil of the Chicago Times, as quoted by in 'Flying discs' called real by 2 air veterans, ''Chicago Times'' (July 7, 1947)

* Once again, we can be sure that these Canadian blue-green-purple globes are not meteors, nor are they fragments of a comet or Venus. What, then, are they? Spacecraft from another world?
** [http://www.nicap.org/articles/ShalettsArticle1.pdf Discussing] a [http://www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=1148 fisherman's report] of purplish spheres with portholes maneuvering over the [[w:Crow River (Ontario)|Crow River, Ontario]], Are Space Visitors Here?, ''Fate'' (summer 1948)

* Since my first observation and report of the so-called 'flying disks' I have spent a great deal of money and time thoroughly investigating this subject... It may be of interest to you to know there is a connection between tremendous amounts of furnace slag which is being found in giant dumps on our ocean floor, strange submarines, rocket ships and flying disks... There is no doubt in my mind but what these objects are aircraft of a strange design, and material that is unknown to the civilization of this earth.
** In reply to Sidney Shalett's inquiry about his activities and ideas, as quoted in [http://www.nicap.org/articles/ShalettsArticle1.pdf What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers], p. 129, ''Saturday Evening Post'' (April 30, 1949)

* [The sighting] did not particularly disturb me at the time, except that I had never seen planes of that type. ... I never could understand at that time why the world got so upset about 9 disks, as these things didn't seem to be a menace. I believed that they had something to do with our Army and Air Force. ... [Naturally,] if it's not made by our science or our Army Air Forces, I am inclined to believe it's of an extra-terrestrial origin. ... I think it's something that is of concern to every person in the country, and I don't think it's anything for people to get hysterical about. That's just my frank opinion of it.
** In an [https://www.project1947.com/fig/kamurrow.htm interview] with [[Edward R. Murrow]], broadcast on the evening of April 7, 1950, project1947.com

* … well, right here we’ve seen something, I’ve seen something, hundreds of pilots have seen something … in the skies. We have dutifully reported these things. And we have to have 15 million witnesses before anybody is going to look into the problem … seriously? Well this is utterly fantastic. This is more fantastic than flying saucers or [[w:Venusians|people from Venus]] or anything as far as I am concerned.
** On June 24, 1977, while attending the First International UFO Congress in Chicago, curated by ''[[w:Fate (magazine)|Fate]]'' to mark the 30th anniversary of the "birth" of the modern UFO age, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff2r3YxL6dE Pilot Kenneth Arnold 1977 still angry about disbelief], ''YouTube''.

* A great man is the unbelieving man; he is without spiritual sight or spiritual hearing; his glory is in understanding his own understanding. It is he who subdues the forest, tames the beasts of the field to service. He goes alone in the dark, unafraid. He follows no man’s course, but, searches for himself; the priests cannot make him believe, nor the angels of heaven; none can subdue his judgment. He says: why permit others even priests, to think for you? Stand on your own feet – be a man. Through his arm are tyrants and evil kings overthrown. Through him are doctrines and religions sifted to the bottom and the falsehood and evil in them cast aside. Who but the Creator could have created so great a man as the unbeliever?
** Paraphrasing a section from ''[[:w:Oahspe: A New Bible|Oahspe: A New Bible]]'' by John Ballou Newbrough (1828–1891), p. 361, which he handed out as his "[http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2017/03/ufos-kenneth-arnold-and-american-bible.html philosophy card]".

==Quotes about Arnold==
* What you observed, I am convinced, is some type of jet or rocket propelled ship that is in the process of being tested by our government or even it could possibly be by some foreign government.
** Sonny Robinson, former Army Air Forces pilot, as quoted in 1947 in Arnold's [https://www.project1947.com/fig/ka.htm report] to [[w:United States Army Air Forces|Army Air Forces]] (AAF) intelligence (July 12, 1947)

* Mr. Arnold is very outspoken and somewhat bitter in his opinions of the leaders of the U.S. Army Air Forces and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for not having made an investigation of this matter sooner. To put all of the statements made by Mr. Arnold in this report would make it a voluminous volume. ... Mr. Arnold stated that his business had suffered greatly since his report on July 25 due to the fact that at every stop on his business routes, large crowds of people were waiting to question him as to just what he had seen. Mr. Arnold stated further that if [at any time in the future, he saw anything in sky, he would never say a word about it], due to the fact that he has been ridiculed by the press to such an extent that he is practically a moron in the eyes of the majority of the population of the United States.
** Frank M. Brown, [[w:Special agent|Special Agent]] for the [[w:Commander-in-chief|Commander-in-chief]] at [[w:Fourth Air Force|Fourth Air Force]] after interviewing Arnold, ''Confidential Memorandum'' (July 16, 1947)

* You are advised that I have no knowledge of the origination of the flying saucers stories. My intelligence personnel have had several pertinent incident[s] brought to their attention by civilian and government agencies. For your information, this headquarter, in the interest of economy, does not intend to pursue each and every reported flying disc. However, in the interest of national defense, reliable reports of such a nature will be investigated. I have no knowledge at this time of any statement to be made by a government agency regarding the flying discs. As you know, there is no censorship on individual[s] within the United States, therefore you may feel free to interrogate Mr. Arnold, Capt. Smith or whoever you desire.
** Major General Willis H. Hayes of Fourth Air Force headquarters at Hamilton Field, CA, [https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnoldbooklet02.htm in reply] to an inquiry made by Henry McLeod of ''The Seattle Times'' (ca August 1947). A copy of the letter was forwarded to Arnold by Robert Heilman of ''The Seattle Times'', ufologie.patrickgross.org

* Several witnesses to saucer phenomena elsewhere told me that after their stories were published they received correspondence from Arnold urging them to disclose full information.
** Sidney Shalett in [http://www.nicap.org/articles/ShalettsArticle1.pdf What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers], p. 129, ''Saturday Evening Post'' (April 30, 1949)

* Arnold's account of this [Maury Island] investigation in Fate is a real cloak-and-dagger epic, and he mentions that while flying to the scene of the investigation he spotted another covey of some twenty-five flying disks. ... a Government investigation indicated that Arnold probably had run up against an elaborate hoax.
** Sidney Shalett in [http://www.nicap.org/articles/ShalettsArticle1.pdf What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers], p. 129, ''Saturday Evening Post'' (April 30, 1949)

* It didn’t make sense to him how fast they flew. My father was a real nuts-and-bolts realist. He really believed there were explanations for things. [The only reason my father said anything about the sighting was out of fear that Russians had developed a craft capable of flying faster than anything the U.S. was flying, and could use that for a nuclear advantage.] He believed that our military would come forth and tell everyone what these strange things really were, and it never happened.
** Kim Arnold, as quoted in [https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/the-sighting/article_1dc33f61-868d-5c36-b159-87c8465fb662.html The sighting], Phil Wright, ''East Oregonian'' (June 16, 2017)

* Almost from the moment that Kenneth Arnold’s “flying saucer” ... hit the newspapers, this field has been plagued with fakers, liars, charlatans and hoaxers. They have made up their experiences, their expertise, their military service and they have been believed by millions, even when exposed for the frauds they are. ... Before the ink was dry on the Arnold report, there were those who had met the alien creatures piloting those interstellar craft, who had ridden in them, or had seen them crash. Some of those tales were so outrageous that they were nearly impossible to believe, but believe them, some did.
** [[w:Kevin D. Randle|Kevin Randle]] in [http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/03/why-im-beginning-to-dislike-ufo-field.html Why I'm Beginning to Dislike the UFO Field - Part Three], blog: ''A Different Perspective'' (March 30, 2018)

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Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner

2022-12-05T07:47:22Z

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[[Image:Lord Milner 2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Alfred Milner, early 1900's]]
'''[[w:Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner|Alfred Milner]]''' KG GCB GCMG PC (23 March 1854 – 13 May 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator.

==Quotes==
* "Churchill was 'very keen, able, and broad-minded' and a 'powerful backer', but warned that his weakness was being 'too apt to make up his mind without sufficient knowledge'.
** In a letter written to the High Commissioner of Palestine, Sir Herbert Samuel, on February 5, 1921, as Churchill was preparing to take over the Colonial Office on Milner's retirement. From Martin Gilbert's "Winston Churchill, Vol. IV" (1975), p. 520, and quoted in Chris Wrigley's "Winston Churchill, A Biographical Companion" (2002), p 262

*British influence... is not exercised to impose an uncongenial foreign system upon a reluctant people. It is a force making for the triumph of the simplest ideas of honesty, humanity, and justice, to the value of which Egyptians are just as much alive as anybody else.
**''England in Egypt'' (1894 ed.), p. 407

*[I]f Egyptian prosperity is a British interest, so is Egyptian independence. We have no desire to possess ourselves of Egypt, but we have every reason to prevent any rival power from so possessing itself. And there is no sure, no creditable manner of providing permanently against such a contingency, except to build up a system of Government so stable as to leave no excuse for future foreign intervention.
**''England in Egypt'' (1894 ed.), p. 436

* I have a strong hope and conviction that, with moderation and good sense, and a policy of firmness, patience and good temper, these difficulties may yet be satisfactorily, if not immediately settled.
**Milner, to the people of Kimberley, upon his arrival in South Africa on May 5, 1897, [[w:John Evelyn Wrench|John Evelyn Wrench]], cited in Martin Meredith, ''Alfred Lord Milner'' (1958), p. 167

* There is only one possible settlement – [[Second Boer War|war]]! It has got to come ... The difficulty is in the occasion and not the job itself, that is very easily done and I think nothing of the bogies and difficulties of settling South Africa afterwards. You will find a very different tone and temper when the center of unrest is dealt with.
**Milner as recorded by [[w:James Percy FitzPatrick|Percy FitzPatrick]], cited in Martin Meredith, ''Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa'' (2008), p. 374

* If, ten years hence, there are three men of British race to two of Dutch, the country [i.e. South Africa] will be safe and prosperous.
**Milner on 27 December 1900, in private correspondence with Major [[w:John Hanbury-Williams|Hanbury-Williams]], as quoted by C. Headlam in ''The Milner Papers: South Africa'' (1933), p. 242

* ...the impracticability of governing natives, who, at best, are children, needing and appreciating just paternal government, on the same principles as apply to the government of full-grown men.
**Milner on 6 December 1901, on post-[[Second Boer War|war]] government in South Africa, in correspondence with [[w:Joseph Chamberlain|Joseph Chamberlain]], as quoted by C. Headlam in ''The Milner Papers: South Africa'' (1933), p. 312

* If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.
**Milner, in a speech given in Glasgow on November 26, 1909, on Lloyd George's "People's Budget", presented to Parliament, [[w: Lord Alfred Milner|Lord Alfred Milner]], cited in [https://archive.org/details/nationempirebein00miln/page/400/mode/2up ''The Nation and the Empire''] (1913), pp. 400-401

* I feel more sure that the end is nearing than I do what kind of end it will be.
**Milner commenting to Arthur Glazebrook of Canada, about the United States' late entry in the war, cited in J. Lee Thompson's book ''Forgotten Patriot'' (2007), p. 338

* My own disposition is against being in the government unless I am part of the Supreme Direction.
**Lord Milner, in a letter to his future wife, Violet Cecil, on 8 December 1916, the same day he received a letter from Prime Minister Lloyd George asking him to be a member of his war cabinet. From John Marlowe, "Milner, Apostle of Empire" (1976), pp. 253-254

* The prospects for peace were, "even blacker than a year ago".
**Quoted on March 23, 1919, one year after Lloyd George called and asked him to go to France to find out the position of the British Army after the German surprise attack. From ''Forgotten Patriot'', 2007, Rosemont, p. 359

* Instead of it (World War I) having been a war to end wars - it (the Paris Peace Conference) is a Peace to end Peace.
**A remark to his private secretary, Lord Sandon, in May 1919. From Terence H. O'Brien, ''Milner, Viscount Milner of St James and Cape Town 1954-1925'' (1979) p. 335.

==Quotes about Milner==
[[file:Sir Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner - Detail.jpg|thumb|right|Milner is a tired, dyspeptic old man. ~ Sir [[w:Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet|William Robertson]]]]
* Only at Government House did I find the Man of No Illusions, the anxious but unwearied Pro-Consul, understanding the faults and virtues of both sides, measuring the balance of rights and wrongs, and determined - more determined than ever, for is it not the only hope for the future of South Africa? - to use his knowledge and power to strengthen the Imperial ties.
**[[Winston Churchill]], writing as a Special Correspondent of the ''Morning Post'', quoted by [[w:John Evelyn Wrench|John Evelyn Wrench]], in ''Alfred Lord Milner'' (1958), p. 219

* The conditions of the Transvaal ordinance ... cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery; at least, that word in its full sense could not be applied without a risk of terminological inexactitude.
**[[Winston Churchill]], in a speech to the House of Commons on February 22, 1906, about a Transvaal ordinance that allowed Chinese coolies to be imported to work in the South African diamond mines.

* Lord Milner has gone from South Africa, probably forever. The public service knows him no more. Having exercised great authority he now exercises no authority. Having held high employment he now has no employment. Having disposed of events which have shaped the course of history, he is now unable to deflect in the smallest degree the policy of the day. Having been for many years, or at least for many months, the arbiter of the fortunes of men who are 'rich beyond the dreams of avarice', he is today poor, and honorably poor. After twenty years of exhausting service under the Crown he is today a retired Civil Servant, without pension or gratuity of any kind whatever... Lord Milner has ceased to be a factor in public life.
**[[Winston Churchill]], in a speech to Parliament, March 6, 1906. Cited from, ''Alfred Lord Milner, The Man of No Illusions'' (1958), p. 260

* He is an old friend of mine. We admired and loved the same woman. That's an indissoluble bond.
**[[Georges Clemenceau]], said to French President Raymond Poincare in January 1917, and quoted by author J. Lee Thompson, in his biography, ''Forgotten Patriot, A Life of Alfred, Viscount Milner, of St. James and Cape Town, 1854-1925'' (2007), p. 334

* If he does not agree with you, he closes his eyes like a lizard and you can do nothing with him.
**[[Georges Clemenceau]], describing his dealings with Milner at the Paris Peace Conference. J Lee Thompson, ''Forgotten Patriot'' (2007), p. 359

* We should have won the war some time ago if there were about half-a-dozen Lord Milner's to form a (War) Cabinet...
**[[w:Geoffrey Dawson|Geoffrey Dawson]], in a letter dated 14 February 1918 (2 days before General Robertson's replacement), quoted in author John Evelyn Wrench's ''Alfred Lord Milner'' (1958), p. 339

* How far reaching that service became at the turning point of the war, what a godsend that combination of cool judgement and knowledge with the Premier's flair and courage, how essential to victory the power of decision which at the blackest moment consolidated the direction of the allied armies...but when the story comes to be fully written, it may be found that nothing even in the South African chapter has left a more decisive mark on history than Lord Milner's work at Doullens and in Downing Street...
**[[w:Geoffrey Dawson|Geoffrey Dawson]], on Milner's death in 1925, quoted in author J. Lee Thompson's ''Forgotten Patriot'' (2007), p. 381

* “What would have been the position to-day on South Africa if there had not been a man prepared to take upon himself responsibility; a man whom difficulties could not conquer, whom dissenters could not cow, and whom obloquy could not move?”
**[[w:George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen|George Goschen]], speaking in the House of Lords, 29 March 1906. [https://archive.org/details/lordmilnersworki000161mbp/page/n9/mode/2up?q=Milner ''Link'']

* Milner....is the strongest member of the War Cabinet as well as being the best informed.
**[[w:Douglas Haig|Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig]], in a letter to his wife in May 1917, quoted in author Alfred Gollin's, ''Proconsul in Politics'', (1964), p. 436

* Lloyd George had the firm support of Milner, the strongest man in his War Cabinet.
**[[w:Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey|Maurice Hankey]], discussing 1918 war strategy in his book ''The Supreme Command, 1914-1918, Volume II'' (1961), p. 775

* The interview adjourned at an appointed hour to the office of the Secretary of War, Lord Milner, whose little book on "The English in Egypt" written twenty-six years ago, was a bible to me in Philippine days. He was an extremely forceful and able man. He was born in Germany of British parents and seems to have acquired a little of the blood and iron. At least he is the most difficult person to bring over that my General (Pershing) and I have attempted. It is all on the question of how many troops shall go with the British and what they shall be. He wants all infantry and machine guns, and while protesting that they all look forward to the day when we shall have our American Army on the line as such, is demanding the things that will make that impossible, at least before 1919.
**[[w:MG James Harbord|Major General James Harbord]], quoted in ''Leaves From a War Diary'' (1925), pp. 270-271

* In appearance a scholar rather than a man of action, but with an air of grave assurance, which indicated fixity of purpose, a man more apt to give than to take advice.
**[[w:James Rose Innes|James Rose Innes]] cited in Martin Meredith, ''Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa'' (2008), p. 368, his first impression of Milner at Government House, Cape Town

* I think that Milner and I stand for very much the same things. He is a poor man, and so am I. He does not represent the landed or capitalist classes any more than I do. He is keen on social reform, and so am I.
**[[David Lloyd George]], quoted in Lord Riddell's diary entry (18 February 1917), J. M. McEwen (ed.), ''The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923'' (1986), p. 186

* Milner was the only person I can turn to for advice. Bonar was a quaking reed. Carson had courage, but not always judgement. Milner alone had both wisdom and intrepidity.
**[[David Lloyd George]], quoted in Leo Amery's diary on January 27, 1918, after Amery suggested that Lord Milner be moved to the War Office. Milner was the most important member of the War Cabinet. Leo Amery, ''My Political Life'', Volume II (1953), p. 98

* ...trained in the school of newspapers and books rather than that of men. ...poor nervous ignorant fellow, utterly out of sympathy with South Africa.
**[[w:John X. Merriman|John Merriman]] cited in Martin Meredith, ''Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa'' (2008), p. 368

* Having to deal with the War Cabinet, I know very well there are only two people in it who do anything - the Prime Minister and Lord Milner...
**[[w:Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe|Lord Northcliffe]], in a letter to ''The Times'' newspaper, April 1918. J Lee Thompson, ''Forgotten Patriot'' (2007), p. 344

* l'homme d'action par excellence du cabinet anglais (the outstanding man of drive in the British cabinet).
** Prime Minister Clemenceau, quoted by Walter Reid in ''Five Days From Defeat: How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War'' (2017), p. 174

*When Lord Milner was given the [[w:Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]... [h]e had to attend a [[w:Levee (ceremony)|Levee]], and when he dressed he was faced by the problem over which shoulder should the riband go. As there was no time to ask anyone's advice he decided to wear it...over the right shoulder; but the Garter...[is] worn over the left shoulder. Quite unconscious that he was wearing his riband over the wrong shoulder he appeared in the antechamber at St. James's Palace, where everyone assembles. There, unfortunately, he met [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston|George Curzon]], who was scandalised at his ignorance; so strongly, in fact, did Curzon feel that after the Levee he wrote Milner a letter saying that it was almost inconceivable that anyone who had been given this ancient Order, the highest Order in the land, should not even take the trouble to ascertain how it was worn. It happened some months later that one of the Levees at St. James's Palace happened to come on a collar day... Curzon...came rather late to the Levee...and...committ[ed] the most heinous offence of wearing a riband ''as well as'' a collar. Of course, the King observed this at once but made little of it, only chaffing Curzon about the mistake; Milner, who was also present, heard these remarks and afterwards wrote to Curzon, repeating nearly word for word that it was almost inconceivable that anyone who had been given this ancient Order, etc. etc.
**[[w:Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby|Frederick Ponsonby]], ''Recollections of Three Reigns'' (1951), pp. 352-353

* [[David Lloyd George|Lloyd George]] is a real bad 'un. The other members of the War Cabinet seem afraid of him. Milner is a tired, dyspeptic old man. [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston|Curzon]] is a gas-bag. [[Bonar Law]] equals Bonar Law.
**Sir [[w:Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet|William Robertson]] (CIGS), writing to General Douglas Haig after the Flanders Offensive, and after meeting with the war cabinet. William Manchester, ''The Last Lion'' (1983), p. 624
** ....from Haig's diary entry of 9 August 1917, quoting General Robertson, per ''The Private Papers of Douglas Haig, 1914-1919'', by Robert Blake (1952), pp. 251-252

* [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/article/1926-03-26/15/10.html?region=global#start%3D1917-12-31%26end%3D1984-12-31%26terms%3DMilner%20Doullens%26back%3D/tto/archive/find/Milner+Doullens/w:1917-12-31%7E1984-12-31/o:date/1%26prev%3D/tto/archive/frame/goto/Milner+Doullens/w:1917-12-31%7E1984-12-31/o:date/5%26next%3D/tto/archive/frame/goto/Milner+Doullens/w:1917-12-31%7E1984-12-31/o:date/7 ''...Cette decision sauva la France et la liberte du monde.''] Translated from French to English: ''...This decision saved France and the freedom of the world.''
* [https://www.facebook.com/Lord-Alfred-Milner-109792770489900/photos/a.111096840359493/111097923692718 ''The complete inscription, in english,''] says, "In this Town Hall, on the 26th of March, 1918, the Allies entrusted General Foch with the Supreme Command on the Western Front. This decision saved France and the liberty of the world."
**the inscription on two bronze plaques (unobtrusive tablets), one French and one English, on the iron gates of the Town Hall of Doullens, to commemorate the decision made on March 26, 1918 to unite the Western Front under a single command, ....quoted from "United Empire", ''"Lord Milner and the Unified Command"'', by W. Basil Worsfold, (May 1929), pg. 237, ''"The Biography of the Late Marshal Foch"'', by Major General George Aston, (1929), [https://archive.org/details/biographyoflatem0000asto/page/284/mode/2up?q=%22In+this%22 ''pgs. 285-286''], and ''"Alfred Lord Milner"'', by John Evelyn Wrench, (1958), [https://archive.org/details/alfredlordmilner0000wren/page/342/mode/2up?q=%22In+this+Town+Hall%22 ''pg. 343'']

Note that of the two pictures shown to the right, the top photograph was taken in 1902, and the bottom portrait was drawn on May 8th and June 12, 1919. It was later used in the larger oil painting, [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00301/Statesmen-of-World-War-I ''Statesmen of World War I''].

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Kenneth Arnold

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'''[[w:Kenneth Arnold|Kenneth Albert Arnold]]''' (March 29, 1915 – January 16, 1984) was an American aviator and businessman. He is best known for making what is generally considered the first widely reported modern [[unidentified flying object]] sighting in the United States, after claiming to have seen [[w:Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting|nine unusual objects]] flying in tandem near [[w:Mount Rainier|Mount Rainier]], [[w:Washington (state)|Washington]] on June 24, 1947.

==Quotes==
[[Image:Arnold AAF drawing.jpg|thumb|right|''I have received lots of requests ... to make a lot of wild guesses. I have based what I have written here ... on positive facts and as far as guessing what it was ..., it is just as much a mystery to me as it is to the rest of the world.'' — Arnold's report to the US Army Air Forces (AAF) intelligence, dated July 12, 1947.]]

* They flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water.
** To [[w:East Oregonian|East Oregonian]] reporter Bill Bequette at the [[w:Eastern Oregon Regional Airport|airport]] at [[w:Pendleton, Oregon|Pendleton]] on June 25, 1947, where Arnold was refueling his private plane. Bill Bequette and editor Nolan Skiff's front page story in the evening paper of the same day, titled ''Impossible! Maybe, But Seein’ Is Believin’, Says Flyer,'' started the modern UFO era. The EO ran front page follow-ups on June 27, 28 and 30.[https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/the-sighting/article_1dc33f61-868d-5c36-b159-87c8465fb662.html]

* [They appeared to fly almost as if fastened together – if one dipped, the others dipped too.]
** In Pendleton on June 25, 1947, as quoted in the Associated Press national wire story, [https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/positivelytruestoryofkennetharnold3.html “Pilot Sees ‘Saucer-like Objects’ Flying at 1,200 m.p.h. in Oregon”], ''Montreal Gazette'' (June 26, 1947)

* ... I looked at my watch and it showed one minute and 42 seconds. Well, I felt that was pretty fast and I didn't stop to think what the distance was between the two mountains. ... they sure must have had a tailwind, but it didn't seem to help me much. But to the best of my knowledge, and the best of my description, that is what I actually saw, [and,] like I told the Associated Press, [I'd] be glad to confirm it with my hands on a Bible because I did see it, and whether it has anything to do with our army or our intelligence or whether it has to do with some foreign country, I don't know. But I did see it and I did clock it and I just happened to be in a beautiful position to do it and it's just as much a mystery to me as it is to everyone else who's been calling me the last 24 hours, wondering what it was.
** Arnold [https://rr0.org/time/1/9/4/7/06/25/Arnold_Interview/index.html interviewed] by Ted Smith and broadcast on KWRC radio on June 26, 1947. The [https://pulp.hypotheses.org/1180 vinyl recording] was [https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnoldrepbequette.htm discovered] among [[w:Raymond A. Palmer|Raymond Palmer]]'s personal documents by Pierre Lagrange in 1988.

* I haven't had a moment of peace since I first told the story, ... This whole thing has gotten out of hand. I want to talk to the FBI or someone. Half the people I see look at me as a combination [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[w:Flash Gordon (serial)|Flash Gordon]], and [[w:George Beurling|Screwball]]. I wonder what my wife back in [[w:Idaho|Idaho]] thinks. Most people tell me I'm right.
** On June 27, 1947, as quoted (i.a.) in Harassed Saucer-Sighter Would Like to Escape Fuss, ''[[w:Idaho Statesman|Idaho Statesman]]'' (June 28, 1947)

* ... a chain [at least five miles long] of nine peculiar looking aircraft ... were approaching Mt. Rainier very rapidly, and I merely assumed they were jet planes. ... I watched these objects with great interest as I had never before observed airplanes flying so close to the mountain tops ... Their speed at the time did not impress me particularly, because I knew that our army and air forces had planes that went very fast. ... What kept bothering me [however,] was the fact that I couldn't make out any tail on them, ... The more I observed these objects the more upset I became, as I am accustomed and familiar with most all objects flying ... Even at the time this timing [of 1 min 42 s] did not upset me as I felt confident after I would land there would be some explanation of what I saw. ... I look at this whole ordeal as not something funny as some people have made it out to be. To me it is mighty serious and since I evidently did observe something[, there] is no reason that it does not exist. Even though I openly invited an investigation by the Army and the FBI as to the authenticity of my story ..., I have received no interest from these two important protective forces of our country ...
** Arnold's [https://www.project1947.com/fig/ka.htm report] to [[w:United States Army Air Forces|Army Air Forces]] (AAF) intelligence, dated July 12, 1947, project1947.com

* It is with considerable disappointment you cannot give the explanation of these aircraft as I felt certain they belonged to our government. They have apparently meant no harm, but used as an instrument of destruction in combination with our atomic bomb the effects could destroy life on our planet. ... We have not taken this lightly. It is to us of very serious concern, as we are as interested in the welfare of our country as you are.
** In a [https://rr0.org/time/1/9/4/7/07/12/Arnold_Telegram/index.html telegram] to the Commanding General of [[w:Wilbur Wright Field|Wright Field]] in Ohio, who requested information on his sighting of June 24, 1947.

* If our government knows anything about these devices, the people should be told at once. A lot of people out here are very much disturbed. Some think these things may be from another planet. But they aren't harming anyone and I think it would be the wrong thing to shoot one of them down – even if it can be done. Their high speed would completely wreck them.
** In telephonic conversation with Henry Heil of the Chicago Times, as quoted by in 'Flying discs' called real by 2 air veterans, ''Chicago Times'' (July 7, 1947)

* Once again, we can be sure that these Canadian blue-green-purple globes are not meteors, nor are they fragments of a comet or Venus. What, then, are they? Spacecraft from another world?
** [http://www.nicap.org/articles/ShalettsArticle1.pdf Discussing] a [http://www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=1148 fisherman's report] of purplish spheres with portholes maneuvering over the [[w:Crow River (Ontario)|Crow River, Ontario]], Are Space Visitors Here?, ''Fate'' (summer 1948)

* Since my first observation and report of the so-called 'flying disks' I have spent a great deal of money and time thoroughly investigating this subject... It may be of interest to you to know there is a connection between tremendous amounts of furnace slag which is being found in giant dumps on our ocean floor, strange submarines, rocket ships and flying disks... There is no doubt in my mind but what these objects are aircraft of a strange design, and material that is unknown to the civilization of this earth.
** In reply to Sidney Shalett's inquiry about his activities and ideas, as quoted in [http://www.nicap.org/articles/ShalettsArticle1.pdf What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers], p. 129, ''Saturday Evening Post'' (April 30, 1949)

* [The sighting] did not particularly disturb me at the time, except that I had never seen planes of that type. ... I never could understand at that time why the world got so upset about 9 disks, as these things didn't seem to be a menace. I believed that they had something to do with our Army and Air Force. ... [Naturally,] if it's not made by our science or our Army Air Forces, I am inclined to believe it's of an extra-terrestrial origin. ... I think it's something that is of concern to every person in the country, and I don't think it's anything for people to get hysterical about. That's just my frank opinion of it.
** In an [https://www.project1947.com/fig/kamurrow.htm interview] with [[Edward R. Murrow]], broadcast on the evening of April 7, 1950, project1947.com

* … well, right here we’ve seen something, I’ve seen something, hundreds of pilots have seen something … in the skies. We have dutifully reported these things. And we have to have 15 million witnesses before anybody is going to look into the problem … seriously? Well this is utterly fantastic. This is more fantastic than flying saucers or [[w:Venusians|people from Venus]] or anything as far as I am concerned.
** On June 24, 1977, while attending the First International UFO Congress in Chicago, curated by ''[[w:Fate (magazine)|Fate]]'' to mark the 30th anniversary of the "birth" of the modern UFO age, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff2r3YxL6dE Pilot Kenneth Arnold 1977 still angry about disbelief], ''YouTube''.

* A great man is the unbelieving man; he is without spiritual sight or spiritual hearing; his glory is in understanding his own understanding. It is he who subdues the forest, tames the beasts of the field to service. He goes alone in the dark, unafraid. He follows no man’s course, but, searches for himself; the priests cannot make him believe, nor the angels of heaven; none can subdue his judgment. He says: why permit others even priests, to think for you? Stand on your own feet – be a man. Through his arm are tyrants and evil kings overthrown. Through him are doctrines and religions sifted to the bottom and the falsehood and evil in them cast aside. Who but the Creator could have created so great a man as the unbeliever?
** Paraphrasing a section from ''[[:w:Oahspe: A New Bible|Oahspe: A New Bible]]'' by John Ballou Newbrough (1828–1891), p. 361, which he handed out as his "[http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2017/03/ufos-kenneth-arnold-and-american-bible.html philosophy card]".

==Quotes about Arnold==
* What you observed, I am convinced, is some type of jet or rocket propelled ship that is in the process of being tested by our government or even it could possibly be by some foreign government.
** Sonny Robinson, former Army Air Forces pilot, as quoted in 1947 in Arnold's [https://www.project1947.com/fig/ka.htm report] to [[w:United States Army Air Forces|Army Air Forces]] (AAF) intelligence (July 12, 1947)

* Mr. Arnold is very outspoken and somewhat bitter in his opinions of the leaders of the U.S. Army Air Forces and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for not having made an investigation of this matter sooner. To put all of the statements made by Mr. Arnold in this report would make it a voluminous volume. ... Mr. Arnold stated that his business had suffered greatly since his report on July 25 due to the fact that at every stop on his business routes, large crowds of people were waiting to question him as to just what he had seen. Mr. Arnold stated further that if [at any time in the future, he saw anything in sky, he would never say a word about it], due to the fact that he has been ridiculed by the press to such an extent that he is practically a moron in the eyes of the majority of the population of the United States.
** Frank M. Brown, [[w:Special agent|Special Agent]] for the [[w:Commander-in-chief|Commander-in-chief]] at [[w:Fourth Air Force|Fourth Air Force]] after interviewing Arnold, ''Confidential Memorandum'' (July 16, 1947)

* You are advised that I have no knowledge of the origination of the flying saucers stories. My intelligence personnel have had several pertinent incident[s] brought to their attention by civilian and government agencies. For your information, this headquarter, in the interest of economy, does not intend to pursue each and every reported flying disc. However, in the interest of national defense, reliable reports of such a nature will be investigated. I have no knowledge at this time of any statement to be made by a government agency regarding the flying discs. As you know, there is no censorship on individual[s] within the United States, therefore you may feel free to interrogate Mr. Arnold, Capt. Smith or whoever you desire.
** Major General Willis H. Hayes of Fourth Air Force headquarters at Hamilton Field, CA, [https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnoldbooklet02.htm in reply] to an inquiry made by Henry McLeod of ''The Seattle Times'' (ca August 1947). A copy of the letter was forwarded to Arnold by Robert Heilman of ''The Seattle Times'', ufologie.patrickgross.org

* Several witnesses to saucer phenomena elsewhere told me that after their stories were published they received correspondence from Arnold urging them to disclose full information.
** Sidney Shalett in [http://www.nicap.org/articles/ShalettsArticle1.pdf What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers], p. 129, ''Saturday Evening Post'' (April 30, 1949)

* Arnold's account of this [Maury Island] investigation in Fate is a real cloak-and-dagger epic, and he mentions that while flying to the scene of the investigation he spotted another covey of some twenty-five flying disks. ... a Government investigation indicated that Arnold probably had run up against an elaborate hoax.
** Sidney Shalett in [http://www.nicap.org/articles/ShalettsArticle1.pdf What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers], p. 129, ''Saturday Evening Post'' (April 30, 1949)

* It didn’t make sense to him how fast they flew. My father was a real nuts-and-bolts realist. He really believed there were explanations for things. [The only reason my father said anything about the sighting was out of fear that Russians had developed a craft capable of flying faster than anything the U.S. was flying, and could use that for a nuclear advantage.] He believed that our military would come forth and tell everyone what these strange things really were, and it never happened.
** Kim Arnold, as quoted in [https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/the-sighting/article_1dc33f61-868d-5c36-b159-87c8465fb662.html The sighting], Phil Wright, ''East Oregonian'' (June 16, 2017)

* Almost from the moment that Kenneth Arnold’s “flying saucer” ... hit the newspapers, this field has been plagued with fakers, liars, charlatans and hoaxers. They have made up their experiences, their expertise, their military service and they have been believed by millions, even when exposed for the frauds they are. ... Before the ink was dry on the Arnold report, there were those who had met the alien creatures piloting those interstellar craft, who had ridden in them, or had seen them crash. Some of those tales were so outrageous that they were nearly impossible to believe, but believe them, some did.
** [[w:Kevin D. Randle|Kevin Randle]] in [http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/03/why-im-beginning-to-dislike-ufo-field.html Why I'm Beginning to Dislike the UFO Field - Part Three], blog: ''A Different Perspective'' (March 30, 2018)

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Unidentified flying object

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[[File:4 Milky Way (ELitU)-blank.png|thumb|On their first encounter the friends were told: '''“This is a critical time in human history. We are not here to conquer, because there is nothing to conquer. We have been on Earth for many centuries, living in secret bases around the planet.”''' ]]
[[File:August 2010 CME SDO Multi-Wavelength.jpg|thumb|The whole purpose of the cover up by the military and economic interests is to maintain their control over society. I mean, as soon as the general populace would know about alternative ways of living, of relating, ways that are not based on [[competition]] and [[greed]] for [[fear]] of ‘the other’, but rather on [[empathy]], [[sharing]] and [[justice]] for all, I am sure that would spell the end for the existing powers. Until now people have been led to believe that the only way to survive in this world is to fend for yourself, your own community, your own country. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and the space people are living proof that there are other, more viable and more peaceful ways of living together as one human race. ~ Gerard Aartsen]]
[[File:UFO Sightings Chart.jpg|thumb|'''The principle of spacecraft becoming visible by lowering the rate of vibration of their [[atoms]], or disappearing from our sight when they return to their original state, is really not very difficult to understand... If a bicycle wheel turns rapidly, you can’t see the spokes...''' ~ [[W:Gerard Aartsen|Gerard Aartsen]] ]]
[[File:Colour sketch of a spaceship creating crop circles.jpg|thumb|*Ever since the cliché ‘Flying Saucer’ was coined, the greatest and most exciting mystery of our age has been automatically reduced to the level of a music hall joke. The comics of Vaudeville and the comedians of State and Science banded together, most successfully, to encourage humanity in its oldest and easiest method of escape—to laugh at what it does not understand. ~ Desmond Leslie & [[George Adamski]] ]]
[[File:Milky Way over the San Francisco Peaks.jpg|thumb|As I approached him... He made me understand that their coming was friendly... that they were concerned with the radiation going out from earth. I asked if this concern was due to the explosions of our bombs with their resultant vast radio-active clouds? He understood this readily and nodded his head in the affirmative. ~[[George Adamski]]]]
[[File:A Menagerie of Galaxies.jpg|thumb|I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time. ~ [[Winston Churchill]]]]

[[File:Constitution_of_the_United_States,_page_1.jpg|thumb|Since the mid-1950s, classified projects connected to extraterrestrial matters have operated outside of constitutionally required oversight and control... maintained by a carefully orchestrated psychological nexus of ridicule, fear, intimidation and disinformation. ~[[Steven Greer]]]]
[[File:Bobine Tesla Palais decouverte.jpg|thumb|Because of this misguided secrecy, the wondrous new sciences related to advanced energy generation, propulsion and transportation have been withheld from the people. These advances include the generation of limitless clean energy from the so-called [[w:Zero-point energy|zero point energy]] field... ~[[Steven Greer]]]]
[[File:Obama Health Care Speech to Joint Session of Congress.jpg|thumb|... we met with a number of... key Congressmen.... in almost every case... they all wanted to know, but they didn't want to act. ~[[Steven M. Greer]]]]
[[File:Paul Hellyer 1940s.jpg|thumb|Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after… The veil of secrecy must be lifted... before it is too late.
~ [[w:Paul Hellyer|Paul Hellyer]] ]]
[[File:Castle Romeo.jpg|thumb|They are very much afraid we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again and that would be very bad for us and them as well... We are polluting our waters and our air, and we are playing around with these exotic weapons… and they don't like that. They'd like to work with us to teach us better ways, but only, I think, with our consent. ~ [[w:Paul Hellyer|Paul Hellyer]] ]]
[[File:Edgar Mitchell S70-55388.jpg|thumb|I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so....I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know.., yes - we have been visited... it's been happening quite a bit. ~ [[w:Edgar Mitchell|Edgar Mitchell]] ]]

[[File:Tucson05 TitanICBM.jpg|thumb|Unknown aerial objects have in fact been observed over many of our nuclear weapons bases and other nuclear facilities, and in some cases the appearance of these objects coincided with compromising the operational readiness of our nuclear weapons… If they wanted to destroy them, with all the powers they seem to have, they could have done that job. So I personally don’t think that it was a hostile intent. ~ Robert Salas, US Air Force Captain (Ret.) ]]

[[File:Foofighter.png|thumb|right| The common thread weaving among them of breathtaking alterations in consciousness associated with the experiences -- sensations of leaving the body, of flying through the air or being "carried along by the wind," and receiving "startling and novel insights into the nature of reality" that reverberated thereafter with profound, life-changing effects. ~ [[Susan M. Watkins]] ]]
'''[[w:Unidentified flying object|Unidentified flying object]]''' (commonly abbreviated as '''UFO''' or '''U.F.O.''') is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified. Both military and civilian research show that a significant majority of UFO sightings have been identified after further investigation, either explicitly or indirectly through the presence of clear and simple explanatory factors.

== Quotes ==

*Not long before his death, the prominent Italian psychologist and theologian Bruno Sammaciccia decided to disclose his experiences with a group of Space People, which started in 1956 and continued into the late 1970s... Bruno Sammaciccia’s fascinating account of what was to be a long-term, large-scale case of contact with the Space People was recently documented by the author Stefano Breccia, who included it in his book Mass Contacts, first published in Italian in 2006. Sammaciccia’s story gives many details and captures brilliantly the different characters of some of the people involved…. On their first encounter the friends were told: '''“This is a critical time in human history. We are not here to conquer, because there is nothing to conquer. We have been on Earth for many centuries, living in secret bases around the planet.”''' And in response to concerns about their strongly ethical perspective on life compared to that of humans: '''“Our goodness and truth will be stronger than human doubts.”'''
**[https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-Aartsen/e/B00JAWPJ9Q%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Gerard Aartsen] in [http://share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2011/2011-04.htm#correo ''The Friendship Case: Space Brothers teach lessons of brotherhood'' – excerpt, ''Share International''] (2011)

*In confirmation of [[Benjamin Creme]]’s insistence that the Space Visitors are utterly harmless, author Stefano Breccia, who had some encounters of his own, says in the documentary based on Sammaciccia’s account: “They said they were incapable of causing harm to anyone. Even their devices [which were consciously impregnated with their sense of ethics and morality] would refuse to harm anyone. Indeed, they said if they weren’t able to avoid hurting someone, then in that case they would self-destruct.”
**Gerard Aartsen in [http://share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2011/2011-04.htm#correo ''The Friendship Case: Space Brothers teach lessons of brotherhood'' – excerpt, ''Share International''] (2011)

*Sammaciccia’s story gives many details and captures brilliantly the different characters of some of the people involved…. On their first encounter the friends were told: “This is a critical time in human history. We are not here to conquer, because there is nothing to conquer. We have been on Earth for many centuries, living in secret bases around the planet.” And in response to concerns about their strongly ethical perspective on life compared to that of humans: “Our goodness and truth will be stronger than human doubts.”
**Gerard Aartsen in [http://share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2011/2011-04.htm#correo ''The Friendship Case: Space Brothers teach lessons of brotherhood'' – excerpt, ''Share International''] (2011)

*'''The Space Brothers are the people from other planets in our solar system who come to Earth to assist us,''' not just humanity as a whole, but our elder brothers, the [[Masters of Wisdom]] in a major transition in [[consciousness]], a realization or [[Awakening|reawakening]] to the [[spiritual]] realities of life, to our real spiritual nature that we have lost sight of. I am aware that there are many reports of people who claim to be in contact with people from outer space. A lot of people say that they come from out of this solar system because our science tells us the other planets in our system are uninhabited and even uninhabitable. According to the [[Ageless Wisdom teachings|Ageless Wisdom Teachings]], and this is the background from which I speak and write, life is universal. You cannot go anywhere where there is no life because life is the underlying principle of everything that exists. It’s just that because we are so conditioned by life on the solid physical plane, and we do not have etheric vision, which is the ability to see the higher planes material reality above the dense physical, liquid and gaseous physical, that we take for granted that other planets are uninhabited. So most contactees say the space people in the UFOs must be from out of the solar system. However, based on my study and research of the Ageless Wisdom, I believe that the Space Brothers are from within our solar system.
**Gerard Aartsen in [https://www.ufodigest.com/article/spirituality-and-the-ufo-phenomenon-an-interview-with-gerard-aartsen/ Spirituality and the UFO Phenomenon: an interview with Gerard Aartsen, by Jason Francis, ''UFO Digest''], (8 September 2012)

*In all the serious cases of contacts with space people that I have researched, some historical, some more recent, they are seen as morally far advanced compared to ourselves, working and living according to the highest ethical standards. This was reported not only by the early contactees of the 1950s, but also by the people in the Friendship case in Italy and South America, more recent contactees such as Giorgio Dibitonto from Italy and Carlos Diaz from Mexico, as well as by high-profile individuals who have testified about their encounters. When you look at it closely, it is astounding to find so many people talking about the goodness and wisdom of the people from space.
**Gerard Aartsen in [https://www.ufodigest.com/article/spirituality-and-the-ufo-phenomenon-an-interview-with-gerard-aartsen/ Spirituality and the UFO Phenomenon: an interview with Gerard Aartsen, by Jason Francis, ''UFO Digest''], (8 September 2012)

*The whole purpose of the cover up by the military and economic interests is to maintain their control over society. I mean, as soon as the general populace would know about alternative ways of living, of relating, ways that are not based on [[competition]] and [[greed]] for [[fear]] of ‘the other’, but rather on [[empathy]], [[sharing]] and [[justice]] for all, I am sure that would spell the end for the existing powers. Until now people have been led to believe that the only way to survive in this world is to fend for yourself, your own community, your own country. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and the space people are living proof that there are other, more viable and more [[peaceful]] ways of living together as one human race.
**Gerard Aartsen in [https://www.ufodigest.com/article/spirituality-and-the-ufo-phenomenon-an-interview-with-gerard-aartsen/ Spirituality and the UFO Phenomenon: an interview with Gerard Aartsen, by Jason Francis, ''UFO Digest''], (8 September 2012)

*Today, the American Government has dropped its original attitude of disbelief and admitted that it has over eighteen hundred authentic cases on its files. The British Air Ministry is more cautious, but grudgingly admits that it also has a secret department to deal with or to discourage questions... The American Government, however... hints that it is not in the public interest for it to publish all it knows... Ever since the cliché ‘Flying Saucer’ was coined, the greatest and most exciting mystery of our age has been automatically reduced to the level of a music hall joke. The comics of [[w:Vaudeville|Vaudeville]] and the comedians of State and Science banded together, most successfully, to encourage humanity... to laugh at what it does not understand... From then on, anyone who said ‘I have seen a flying saucer’ or, worse, ‘I believe in flying saucers’ was considered... a crank.
**[[George Adamski]] & Desmond Leslie, [https://the-eye.eu/public/WorldTracker.org/Metaphysics%20%26%20Spirituality/George%20Adamski%20FLYING%20SAUCERS%20HAVE%20LANDED.pdf ''Flying Saucers Have Landed'',] (1957)

*Despite evidence to the contrary (and there is enough of it to fill many volumes), there is still a widespread notion...that flying saucers are some kind of American joke... that the mystery has already been cleared up... we can thank those semi-scientists and self-appointed ‘experts’ who have simply failed to study the facts. Too many glib pontifications have been issued to the faithful by those who should know better... to say... that they cover all the cases on record is a flagrant untruth for which a Higher Justice may, or may not forgive them.... Although I quote less than two hundred incidents, these have been selected from nearly two thousand cuttings, reports, articles, manuscripts and ancient documents supplied to me by kind helpers from many countries...
**[[George Adamski]] & Desmond Leslie, [https://the-eye.eu/public/WorldTracker.org/Metaphysics%20%26%20Spirituality/George%20Adamski%20FLYING%20SAUCERS%20HAVE%20LANDED.pdf ''Flying Saucers Have Landed'',] (1957)

*A red glow in the clouds over Godman Field, Kentucky—a disk the size of the Pentagon, lurking, silently, above a fighter base—a construction dwarfing the Queen Mary [British ocean liner...1,019.4 ft (310.7 m)] supported by dull orange flames that lit up the cloud base and caused [[w:Mantell UFO incident|Captain Mantell, of the U.S.A.A.F., to be dispatched in his tiny pursuit plane to investigate]]. When Mantell found it, his voice came over the radio, full of excitement. It was immense, he said, a colossal metallic thing, 500-1,000 feet in diameter, and cruising at 250 m.p.h. He was going to try to overtake it... the giant began climbing at 400 m.p.h. It accelerated faster than any jet, and Mantell went streaking up in pursuit...
**[[George Adamski]] & Desmond Leslie, ''Flying Saucers Have Landed'', (1957)

*[[w:Papal infallibility|Ex Cathedra]] spoke Authority. First, Mantell had been ‘chasing the planet Venus’. Will some kind illusionist kindly explain how the planet Venus could appear as a disk 500 feet across, going at 200 m.p.h.; afterwards climbing rapidly and emitting orange flames? Later, we read of a new official explanation, that Mantell had hit a ‘Skyhook’ meteorological balloon and crashed.... Well, say he had? Would it tear his plane to pieces? I am quite willing, for anyone who will pay my expenses, to pilot a fighter plane through a Skyhook balloon any time of the day or night and observe the results, without very much fear of hurting myself. But when has a Skyhook ever cruised along at 250 m.p.h., or risen sharply at 400 m.p.h., with orange flames, etc., etc., into the bargain? But officially Mantell had chased the planet Venus, metamorphosed later into a Skyhook balloon, and thus, alas, met his death...
**[[George Adamski]] & Desmond Leslie, ''Flying Saucers Have Landed'', (1957)

*As I approached him... He made me understand that their coming was friendly. Also, as he gestured, that they were concerned with the radiation going out from earth. I asked if this concern was due to the explosions of our bombs with their resultant vast radio-active clouds? He understood this readily and nodded his head in the affirmative.
**[[George Adamski]] & Desmond Leslie, ''Flying Saucers Have Landed'', (1957)

*'''The idea is that the citizens of each nation, through these efforts, will grow into closer united friendship with their countrymen, without discrimination or divisions of any kind. In time it is hoped that these national efforts will overflow into worldwide understanding and friendship.'''
**[[George Adamski|George Adamski,]] quoted in [http://share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2011/2011-04.htm#correo ''The Friendship Case: Space Brothers teach lessons of brotherhood'' – excerpt, ''Share International''] (2011)

* People are gradually beginning to realize that these sightings are not bunk. I thought it was bunk until I saw one … Now don't tell me I had been drinking tequila, or that I was seeing spots before my eyes! … you did not offer any explanation for the saucers. Thus far, there certainly is no adequate explanation. All I can say is that if one ever actually sees one, he has seen the most awe-inspiring, strange and unaccountable sight that he'll ever see in his lifetime. … Space does not permit me to go into detail as to why the object was not a balloon, a kite, a plane, or some such object. … I have lost so much sleep thinking about the contraption, I wish I had never seen the darn thing in the first place.
** L. J. Alger [[w:Doctor of Medicine|M.D.]] from [[w:Grand Forks, North Dakota|Grand Forks]], [[w:North Dakota|N.D.]], in a letter to ''[[w:Flying (magazine)|Flying]]'' magazine, as quoted in [https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum7.html The Mail Box], ''Flying'' (September 1950)

* It is with considerable disappointment you cannot give the explanation of these aircraft as I felt certain they belonged to our government. They have apparently meant no harm, but used as an instrument of destruction in combination with our atomic bomb the effects could destroy life on our planet. ... We have not taken this lightly. It is to us of very serious concern, as we are as interested in the welfare of our country as you are.
** [[Kenneth Arnold]] in a [https://rr0.org/time/1/9/4/7/07/12/Arnold_Telegram/index.html telegram] to the Commanding General of [[w:Wilbur Wright Field|Wright Field]] in Ohio, who requested information on his sighting of June 24, 1947.

* If our government knows anything about these devices, the people should be told at once. A lot of people out here are very much disturbed. Some think these things may be from another planet. But they aren't harming anyone and I think it would be the wrong thing to shoot one of them down – even if it can be done. Their high speed would completely wreck them.
** [[Kenneth Arnold]] in telephonic conversation with Henry Heil of the Chicago Times, as quoted by in 'Flying discs' called real by 2 air veterans, ''Chicago Times'' (7 July 1947)
* … well, right here we’ve seen something, I’ve seen something, hundreds of pilots have seen something … in the skies. We have dutifully reported these things. And we have to have 15 million witnesses before anybody is going to look into the problem … seriously? Well this is utterly fantastic. This is more fantastic than flying saucers or [[w:Venusians|people from Venus]] or anything as far as I am concerned.
** [[Kenneth Arnold]] on June 24, 1977, while attending the First International UFO Congress in Chicago, curated by ''[[w:Fate (magazine)|Fate]]'' to mark the 30th anniversary of the "birth" of the modern UFO age, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff2r3YxL6dE Pilot Kenneth Arnold 1977 still angry about disbelief], ''YouTube''.

*The (British) government took the threat of [[Unidentified flying object|UFOs]] so seriously in the 1950s that UK intelligence chiefs met to discuss the issue, newly-released files show... Ministers even went on to commission weekly reports on UFO sightings from a committee of intelligence experts... the papers also include a wartime account claiming prime minister [[Winston Churchill]] ordered a UFO sighting be kept secret to prevent "mass panic"... the latest batch of UFO files released from the Ministry of Defence to the National Archives shows that, in 1957, the committee received reports detailing an average of one UFO sighting a week... The files also include an account of a wartime meeting attended by Winston Churchill in which, it is claimed, the prime minister was so concerned about a reported encounter between a UFO and RAF bombers, that he ordered it be kept secret for at least 50 years to prevent "mass panic". Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFO sightings for the MoD, said: "The interesting thing is that most of the UFO files from that period have been destroyed... But what happened is that a scientist whose grandfather was one of his [Churchill's] bodyguards, said look, Churchill and Eisenhower got together to cover up this phenomenal UFO sighting, that was witnessed by an RAF crew on their way back from a bombing raid...The reason apparently was because Churchill believed it would cause mass panic and it would shatter people's religious views.
**[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10853905 ''BBC News'' Churchill ordered UFO cover-up, National Archives show] (5 August 2010)

*With hundreds of thousands of nebulae, each containing thousands of millions of suns, the odds are enormous that there must be immense numbers which possess planets whose circumstances would not render life impossible... I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time. (from an article written by Churchill in 1939, revised during the 1950s but never published, discovered in 2017 in the [[W:National Churchill Museum|Churchill Museum in the USA]]: [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/15/winston-churchill-essay-alien-life-discovered-us-college-are-we-alone-in-the-universe ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’])
**[[Winston Churchill]], quoted in [https://share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2017/2017-04.htm#correo Winston Churchill and UFOs, by Phyllis Power, ''Share International''], April 2017

*Most of the UFOs visiting this planet come from Mars and Venus. Most of them, even the Venusian ones, are made on Mars, which is a kind of great industrial planet. All of them are of subtle, etheric, not dense physical, matter. '''They can lower the vibrational rate of that matter until it comes within the range of our sight, so for a limited period they are visible.''' Normally, unless you have etheric vision, they would be invisible, but to the Martians, the Venusians and so on, they are visible because they are in that same kind of energy. If you went to Mars, you would see nothing, yet there are more people on Mars than on this planet. Their technology is thousands of years ahead of ours at the present time, but when we have the new Technology of Light, which will be as soon as the planet settles down, the principle of sharing is governing and there are no wars, the Technology of Light will give us all the energy we need directly from the sun... That will speed up our evolution tremendously from a technical point of view.
**[[Benjamin Creme]] in [http://www.share-international.org/archives/UFOs/faq_UFOs.htm ''UFOs FAQ, Share International Magazine''] (April 1999)

*[[John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]] was not aware of [[UFOs|the Space Brothers]] per se, nor was he aware of the source of information. But he was aware of certain individuals in the [[w:United States Foreign Service|diplomatic corps of America]] who were agents of the Space Brothers. He thought highly of their advice and information, and acted on it. It was always given through that agency in the diplomatic service. Likewise, President [[George W. Bush|George W.Bush]], when he was in office, was informed by such an agent in the diplomatic service that there would be an attack on America – the White House, the Pentagon and major buildings – which came to pass on 9/11. The government was warned three months in advance of this event and did nothing about it.
**[[Benjamin Creme]], [https://share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2010/2010-03.htm ''UFOs: Their Spiritual Mission Conference Q & A, Part 1, Share International magazine''] (March 2010)

*There are leaders around the world who believe in this phenomenon, and do not know why the leading countries like America, Russia and the European nations do not ‘come clean’. They do not want to do it themselves because they do not want to be out of step. But they think it is perfectly believable that the UFOs are from some place, not necessarily Mars or Venus, but some place outside our solar system...These leaders may not know that, but they do believe in the existence of UFOs and in some cases would like to make it known. The South American countries, especially [[w:Brazil|Brazil]], have suggested that the truth should be made known, but nothing has come of it.
**[[Benjamin Creme]], [https://share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2010/2010-03.htm ''UFOs: Their Spiritual Mission Conference Q & A, Part 1, Share International magazine''] (March 2010)
*Now there are 14 [[Masters of Wisdom|masters]] plus [[Maitreya|Maitreya]]... That is one group of helpers which come to help humanity get through this difficult period between the Age of Pisces and [[The Age of Aquarius|the Age of Aquarius]]... The other group, another major group are the Masters who come from some of the other planets of our own system.... This system like all systems is a cohesive unit. All the planets are related and all carry on their work in relation to the Plans of our own sun. Our sun is the center of this solar system and there is an interplanetary force, interplanetary being relationship at the center of this system as a whole, and the spiritual masters of this planet are in the closest contact with the spiritual identities in each of the planets of our system.
**[[Benjamin Creme]], [https://share-international.org/av/v_lectures_japan_2010.htm A new civilization dawns. The emergence of the World Teacher and the role of UFO]s, Lecture in Tokyo, Japan, 84 mins, 36 seconds, (8 May 2010)

*There is an interplanetary [[Parliamentary system|parliament]] of which our Spiritual Hierarchy and [[Maitreya (Theosophy)|Maitreya]] is the expression of this planet. All the planets have their representatives in the interplanetary parliament. At that parliament, Maitreya focused for the other planets, the aims and the problems of Earth. It was concluded that an extraordinary movement of succor of help for the Earth had to be mounted by as many of the planets as wished to. It is not without reason the first evidence of what came to be called [[UFOs|flying saucers, UFOs]]... happened soon after the end of the war. (43:36) This planet is a conscious part of a [[w:solar system|solar system]] which acts together, which has a parliament for all the planets... (56:37)
**[[Benjamin Creme]] in ''A new civilization dawns. The emergence of the World Teacher and the role of UFOs'' Lecture in Tokyo, Japan. [https://share-international.org/av/v_lectures_japan_2010.htm Full video] (8 May 2010)

*In 1945-46-46 & so on... ordinary airline pilots, crew & passengers would see would see outside their planes... these extraordinary dome shaped... ships... and no one knew where they came from... no one knew what they were.In the beginning most the... governments thought... the Russians thought they were made by the Americans. The Americans thought they were made by the Russians... no one knew precisely how they came to be there, what they were doing and how they had this extraordinary freedom of the air, this ability to appear and disappear and to go at fantastic speeds way out of sight of the planes that they had stood beside for a few minutes. For a few years it was an unexplainable phenomenon. We made jokes about it. Flying saucers... no one knew...
**[[Benjamin Creme]], Lecture in Tokyo, Japan (8 May 2010)

*In 1953 a book was published by... [[Desmond Leslie]] called ''"Flying Saucers Have Landed"''... traced the history... of flying saucers, UFOs... down through the centuries... for hundreds and hundreds... thousands of years.. He had done tremendous amount of research and found that the phenomenon of flying saucers was pretty well universal and had existed on and off for thousands of years... 51:14 then an American man called George Adamski came on the scene... it was arranged that they (space brothers & Adamski) met in the desert in eastern California... he made the story known. Desmond Leslie heard about it, they met & they published this book together, "Flying Saucers Have Landed" the last chapter which is about a meeting in the desert of GA with a man who... claimed to have come from the planet venus. Meanwhile there was group of Americans set back half a mile or so away who watched the whole scene through binoculars and could bear testimony to the event... Adamski became very well known... travelled the world & gave lectures....the idea of people coming from other planets was extraordinary... (50:33)
**[[Benjamin Creme]], Lecture in Tokyo, Japan (8 May 2010)

*'''The governments of the world who are responsible for the covering up for over 60 years of the truth about UFOs, flying saucers... kept from the public the vital information that this planet is a conscious part of a solar system which acts together, which has a parliament for all the planets...The beings coming in the... UFOs are 100% friendly, 100% on a powerful deep spiritual mission to help humanity A) to avoid self destruction thru nuclear war and B) to aid & guide in every way possible those who can respond to them and who are not afraid of them.. and are aware that they are friendly 55:17, that they have never harmed a soul on planet earth... And yet have constructed against them mainly by the American government and its agencies, not necessarily by the American government, but by the agencies of the American administration a series of lies, of innuendos, of blinds which have made even the strongest awareness of and contact with UFOs such a nonsense to the majority that most people are too afraid or too embarrassed, too shy to do anything about it. And yet it is one of the great happenings in our life today that we are being helped in a great spiritual mission...''' (56:37)
**[[Benjamin Creme]] in [https://share-international.org/av/v_lectures_japan_2010.htm A new civilization dawns. The emergence of the World Teacher and the role of UFO]s, Lecture in Tokyo, Japan,(duration 84:36), (8 May 2010)

* [I wonder whether the work the [[w:East Oregonian|EO]] did covering the [[Kenneth Arnold|Arnold]] sighting may have been the pinnacle of press coverage of the UFO phenomenon, and whether the coverage has been in decline ever since. Today’s press coverage of UFOs is lamentable.] For the life of me, I cannot understand why members of the press are not clamoring for information about the UFO issue. [The disinterest of the press] is even more interesting than the apparent presence on our planet of the UFOs themselves.
** Peter Davenport, director of the [[w:National UFO Reporting Center|National UFO Reporting Center]], as quoted in [https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/the-sighting/article_1dc33f61-868d-5c36-b159-87c8465fb662.html The sighting] by Phil Wright, ''[[w:East Oregonian|East Oregonian]]'' (16 June 2017)

*Some years ago I had a conversation with a layman about flying saucers — because I am scientific I know all about flying saucers! I said "I don't think there are flying saucers'. So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. To define what I mean, I might have said to him, "Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence." It is just more likely. That is all.
** [[Richard Feynman]] in ''The Character of Physical Law'' (1964)

* Anyway, I have to argue about flying saucers on the beach with people, you know. And I was interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And that's true. It is possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.
** [[Richard Feynman]] in ''The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist'' (1998)

*Aliens are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time. They are not hostile towards us, rather, they want to help us but we have not grown enough in order to establish direct contact with them.”
**Lachezar Filipov, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bulgaria/6650677/Aliens-already-exist-on-earth-Bulgarian-scientists-claim.html ''Aliens 'already exist on earth', Bulgarian scientists claim, Telegraph,''] (26 November 2009)

*'''Ending the secrecy surrounding the UFO/ET subject is a laudable goal. It is long overdue. It would transform the world in ways both simple and profound. And yet it is fraught with danger. The covert projects which have been running UFO related programs for nearly 60 years are not interested in a disclosure which upsets their apple cart. They want such a disclosure to transform their apple cart into a freight train.''' And they potentially have the power and connections to do it... I write about the kind of disclosure the world needs. An honest one. An open one. One which replaces secrecy with democracy. A disclosure which is peaceful, scientific and hopeful. But then there is the disclosure the powers that be would like to see: Manipulated. Calculated to consolidate power and engender fear. Configured in such a way that chaos and a deepening need for Big Brother is carefully inculcated into the masses. We have seen the plans and it is not a pretty picture. I write this as a warning. A warning that the wolves in sheep clothes are very cunning indeed. And have almost limitless resources... Evil steps in when good people do nothing... We stand at the beginning of a new time, and a new world awaits us. But we must embrace it, and help create it. For if we are passive, others will have their way- at least in the short run.
**[[Steven Greer]], [https://siriusdisclosure.com/cseti-papers/when-disclosure-serves-secrecy/ ''When Disclosure Serves Secrecy''] (1999)

*These are reconnaissance, and civilizations that are visiting the planet certainly increased after we started detonating atomic weapons, there’s clear evidence that they have a concern about our destructive capabilities and weapons of mass destruction, and if you look at the modern era of sightings of so-called UFOs, those increased markedly after we developed atomic and nuclear weapons, and the hydrogen bomb... We have many top-secret witnesses who were present at nuclear facilities where these extraterrestrial vehicles would come in''' to observe and to see what we’re doing...'''
**[[Steven Greer]] in [https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/451519-extra-terrestrial-intelligence-ufo/ ''3 people from my team, including ex-CIA director, were assassinated – ufologist, RTNews, Sophie Shevardnadze''] (15 February 2019)

*There are a lot of people... who’d make you think that there’s a risk of some kind of alien invasion or threat. It’s the other way around, we’re viewed as the threat, the human civilisation right now is viewed as a very unstable civilisation that has not attained a peaceful world situation, which should have happened at the end of World War 2, and has not yet happened.''' So I think that these civilisations are waiting for us to grow up as a civilisation, and until then, there’s not going to be any overt action by them unless some catastrophic event was to happen. These civilisations range from hundreds of thousands to millions of years more developed than ours, and it appears that they are working somehow together in observing the planet. But the caricature of, so to say, an alien that’s been put out there, that’s mostly a counter-intelligence perspective that has been done by the CIA.... most of the information people see out there on the subject is disinformation created by the intelligence community for its psychological warfare value. '''
**[[Dr. Steven Greer]] in [https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/451519-extra-terrestrial-intelligence-ufo/ ''3 people from my team, including ex-CIA director, were assassinated – ufologist, RTNews, Sophie Shevardnadze''] (15 February 2019)

*We’re all using jets and cars, oil and gas, and we don’t need them. We haven’t needed them for decades. It’s the decision that has been made because to bring out these new technologies would be too disruptive to the current macroeconomic system.... climate change and pollution... are all solvable problems, but they are not going to be solved by tinkering around the edges with solar power or wind power.''' We need really bold new scientific discoveries... Certainly, countries all over the world have a prevalent interest in having this information come out, because the big talk is about climate change... and resource depletion. The fact of the matter is, the technologies for going from one star system to another involves very advanced science and physics, that would get us off oil, gas and coal very quickly. But therein lies the problem: it’s a multi-trillion dollar economic question of bringing out this information. ...the first thing a scientist is going to say...is: what technology are they using to get here? ...when it’s answered, it’s the end of oil.'''
**[[Steven Greer]] in [https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/451519-extra-terrestrial-intelligence-ufo/ ''3 people from my team, including ex-CIA director, were assassinated – ufologist, RTNews, Sophie Shevardnadze''] (15 February 2019)

*Staged UFO events feature craft with seams and rivets. That’s the way to tell ours from theirs.
**[[Steven Greer]] quoted by [https://medium.com/@tslatton/review-of-dr-steven-greers-close-encounters-of-the-fifth-kind-fascinating-and-poignant-6d4f72fbc55f Traci L. Slatton, Review of Dr. Steven Greer’s Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Fascinating and Poignant, ''Medium'',] (19 May 2020)

*Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after… '''The veil of secrecy must be lifted and it has to be lifted now, before it is too late.'''
**[[w:Paul Hellyer|Paul Hellyer]], Minister of Defense, Canada, 1963-1968, ''Speech at the National Press Club,'' Washington DC, April 2008

*They are very much afraid we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again and that would be very bad for us and them as well... We are polluting our waters and our air, and we are playing around with these exotic weapons… and they [space brothers] don't like that. They'd like to work with us to teach us better ways, but only, I think, with our consent.
**[[w:Paul Hellyer|Paul Hellyer]], [https://www.popsci.com/article/science/canadas-ex-defense-minister-says-aliens-would-give-earth-tech-if-we-were-less/ ''Canada's Ex-Defense Minister Says Aliens Would Give Earth Tech If We Were Less Warlike, Popular Science,'' Douglas Main, ] (6 January 2014)

*(How do you answer UFO skeptics?) I get them to read my books and others; because there’s so much literature on the subject, that it is just amazing. And the [[skeptics]], by large, have never done any reading on it. And it’s just like, take any other subject, physics or something that you are not familiar with, you can be skeptical of some of the rules and things people say if you haven’t taken time out to learn about it.... You have to read the books and get the evidence, and then you can check it out for yourself.
* '''There’s all kinds of proof, but only if you know where to look and taken the trouble to go and look... The United States government is the principle villain. Why is a good question, you should ask them, because basically, at a [[w:Disclosure Project|hearing we held a couple of years ago in Washington]], the consensus of the witnesses at the hearing, of whom I was one, was that it was power and greed.''' They cover it up under the cloak of [[national security]], but we all, I think the consensus of all of us who gave evidence there was that it had nothing to do with national security, it was a cover story to keep people from demanding answers, and that the real reasons were power and greed.
**[[Paul Hellyer]], [https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/the-truth-is-out-there-ufo-conference-claims-government-conspiracy/ The truth is out there? UFO conference claims government conspiracy, Nikki Jamieson, ''Calgary Herald'',] April 15, 2015

*[[Dr. Steven Greer]] is a global authority on extraterrestrials who has previous works with Sirius and Unacknowledged and now founder of the Disclosure Project, brings this documentary to talk about shattering the bounds of secrecy of the ET phenomenon. People seeing UFO’s (Unidentified Flying Objects) is not a new phenomenon. What has been sightings spoken has turned into sightings being video’s with cell phones making it impossible to deny that, at the very least, something is happening in our world. Dr. Greer has submitted briefings to five presidents on the subject and with information that he has gathered. While the government creates their own narrative based on fear, Dr. Greer wants to put the facts together in this brutally honest documentary. He believes that it is possible to create a relationship between humans and Extraterrestrials (ET). This documentary brings groundbreaking video/photographic evidence along with the interviews of Princeton’s PEAR lab Adam Curry, civil rights attorney Daniel Sheehan and CIA’s Dr. Russel Targ. These interviews are as equally important as with what Dr. Greer has to share. The most important is Greer’s story of being visited as a child and through learning joint meditation with the ET’s, he was able to create the CE5 protocol which allows goodwill telepathy inviting ET’s to know where the good guys are.
**[https://www.militarypress.com/close-encounters-of-the-fifth-kind/ Jeri Jacquin, in ''Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind,'' ''MilitaryPress''] (6 April 2020)

* Recently, the press has been filled with reports of sightings of flying saucers. While we need not give credence to these stories, they allow our imagination to speculate on how visitors from outer space would judge us. I am afraid they would be stupefied at our conduct. They would observe that for death planning we spend billions to create engines and strategies for war. They would also observe that we spend millions to prevent death by disease and other causes. Finally they would observe that we spend paltry sums for population planning, even though its spontaneous growth is an urgent threat to life on our planet. Our visitors from outer space could be forgiven if they reported home that our planet is inhabited by a race of insane men whose future is bleak and uncertain.
**Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] [http://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-gulf-coast/mlk-acceptance-speech Upon Accepting The Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award (5 May 1966)]

* After a couple of years of intense research into eyewitness accounts of dramatic flying saucer sightings and encounters, it started to dawn on me, dimly at first, that science is not a democracy. It doesn’t really matter how many people have reported observations if the observations make no physical sense. We don’t take a vote to see if flying saucer attributes, such as antigravity, force fields, and speeds of thousands of miles per hour in the lower atmosphere, are technically achievable. Such features either exist or they do not, and they are judged on compatibility with existing proofs and the results of confirmatory research. There are many strange and even unbelievable phenomena that have been proven and re-proven to exist in the nuclear physics model of the universe, but the capabilities of your common flying saucer are not in this set.
** {{cite book|author=James Mahaffey|title=Atomic Adventures|date=2017|publisher=Pegasus Books|isbn=978-1-68177-785-6|page=322}}

*Along with the briefcase with the nuclear codes, the President of the country is given a special ‘top secret’ folder which is entirely devoted to the extra-terrestrials who visited our planet. The report is provided by the special secret service which deals with the extra-terrestrials in our country.
**[[w:Dmitry Medvedev|Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev]], [https://news.sky.com/story/medvedev-makes-strange-off-air-comments-10461436 ''Off-air comments after an interview on Russian TV,''] (7 December 2012)

*'''I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.'''
*I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it's been happening quite a bit.
**[[w:Edgar Mitchell|Edgar Mitchell]], [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1037471/Apollo-14-astronaut-claims-aliens-HAVE-contact--covered-60-years.html ''Apollo 14 astronaut claims aliens HAVE made contact - but it has been covered up for 60 years, Daily Mail UK,'' Story on Mitchell's Interview with [[w:Nick Margerisson|Nick Margerisson]] for ''The Night Before on Kerrang! Radio,'' UK, (23 July 2008)

*The origin of Earth-dwelling or -visiting space folk is exclusively limited to our solar system, with the majority being Martians and Venusians. Mars and Venus are the two planets within the solar system most influential for Earth. Mars, like almost every other celestial body in the universe is populated, yet, ordinarily their inhabitants cannot be perceived for they are of etheric matter (in the case of Mars this shift from the dense-physical state occurred some three million years ago). [[Benjamin Creme|Creme]] states that Mars is bustling with nine billion people; typical Martians would look like smaller-sized humans. Overall, Mars is spiritually on a par with Earth but technologically tremendously superior because they did not make the many “mistakes” humankind did... Creme divides Martians into three categories of spiritual evolution: those who are like gods to us; those of lesser but still remarkable spiritual progress; and those of very low spiritual quality. Moreover, contrary to humans, Martians are mostly holding fast to the Plan; however, unlike Earth, Mars has hitherto not witnessed the creation of a Christ. Like Earth, Mars is not considered a “sacred planet.” Both are in their fourth round (of a total of seven) in terms of planetary evolution, which renders them lagging behind the other ten [sic] planets of the solar system. (p. 301)
**[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EW5bgz0AAAAJ&hl=en Lukas Pokorny] in [https://brill.com/view/title/57043 ''Handbook of UFO Religions''], Volume: 20, ISBN: 9789004435537, [https://rw-ktf.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_religionswiss/Maitreya__Crop_Circles__and_the_Age_of_Light._Benjamin_Creme_s_UFO_Thought__Lukas_Pokorny_2021_.pdf Chapter 12, Maitreya, Crop Circles, and the Age of Light..], (22 Feb 2021)

*[[W:Vulcan (hypothetical planet)|Vulcan]], the planet closest to the sun, is the most advanced having recently completed its seventh round of planetary evolution and thus transitioned to the highest level etheric matter. Vulcan is also home to the headquarters of the Interplanetary [[Parliament]] with its representative being the “most distinguished”... Consisting of envoys of all twelve planets where they are parts of the respective Hierarchies, the Interplanetary Parliament’s objective is to assist each other in pursuing the Plan. Collaborative efforts are fed through emotional links in addition to the fact that all the planets are intertwined energetically. Hence, every single planet affects the other parts of this interplanetary energetic network. Furthermore, the Parliament is connected to an even higher organisational entity, the Galactic Federation of Light, which encompasses civilisations across the universe... Unsurprisingly, our solar system’s Interplanetary Parliament is also in constant contact with other Interplanetary Parliaments, such as, most importantly, that of Sirius. Following Vulcan in terms of planetary evolution and representing altogether the Seven Sacred Planets are Mercury and Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. The non-sacred ones are Mars and Earth, Pluto, the 1977 discovered 2060 Chiron orbiting Pluto and not the Sun [sic], and the 2002 discovered trans-Neptunian Quaoar.
**[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EW5bgz0AAAAJ&hl=en Lukas Pokorny] in [https://brill.com/view/title/57043 ''Handbook of UFO Religions''], Volume: 20, ISBN: 9789004435537, [https://rw-ktf.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_religionswiss/Maitreya__Crop_Circles__and_the_Age_of_Light._Benjamin_Creme_s_UFO_Thought__Lukas_Pokorny_2021_.pdf Chapter 12, Maitreya, Crop Circles, and the Age of Light..], (22 Feb 2021)

*[[Benjamin Creme|Creme]] explains that etheric matter is tantamount to dark matter, which had already been discovered by [[Wilhelm Reich]]. He called it the “orgone.” In this regard, Creme recommends scientists to turn to the esoteric literature such as [[Blavatsky]]’s [[The Secret Doctrine|''The Secret Doctrine'']] in lieu of, for example, building cyclotrons worth many billions of pounds... What is more, Creme unveiled that the universe would follow the [[W:Big Bounce|Big Bounce scenario]]... so the current [[scientific]] mainstream theory of [[w:Big Rip|Big Rip]]/[[w:Heat death of the universe|Heat Death]] would be wrong. According to Creme, spiritual progress generally expresses itself in rarefying matter density be it in people or entire planets; hence, upon completing its seventh evolutionary round Vulcan shifted to the most subtle etheric matter.. In this regard, Creme, for example, confirms [[George Adamski|Adamski]]’s famous account in which he reported to have attended a meeting of the Parliament in late March 1962 on Saturn.
**[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EW5bgz0AAAAJ&hl=en Lukas Pokorny] in [https://brill.com/view/title/57043 ''Handbook of UFO Religions''], Volume: 20, ISBN: 9789004435537, [https://rw-ktf.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_religionswiss/Maitreya__Crop_Circles__and_the_Age_of_Light._Benjamin_Creme_s_UFO_Thought__Lukas_Pokorny_2021_.pdf Chapter 12, Maitreya, Crop Circles, and the Age of Light..], (22 Feb 2021)

An article written by Winston Churchill in 1939, revised during the 1950s but never published, has recently been discovered in the Churchill Museum in the USA: ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’ Written on the verge of World War II, with crucial political events to occupy his mind, Churchill’s interest would have been stimulated by the recent notorious US radio version of [[War of the Worlds]] (adapted by [[Orson Welles]] from the novel by [[H. G. Wells|H.G.Wells]]), that had many panicking that an ‘alien invasion’ was actually taking place. The article was originally written before the period, particularly in the 1950s, of many reports of UFOs and great public interest in the phenomenon.

*Astrophysicist Mario Livio, the first person to be shown this newly discovered manuscript, points out that Churchill posited the existence of many other suns with families of planets, decades before the actual discovery of extrasolar planets in the 1990s. What impresses Livio about Churchill’s article is how he approached the question of alien life with a ‘scientist’s mind’...although Churchill interestingly posits Mars and Venus as possible hosts for life, he in no way entertains the possibility of etheric matter that can explain the existence of life on planets in our solar system and that underpins the accounts of space people in the writings of Benjamin Creme and George Adamski (borne out by countless sightings and other accounts). All the same, intriguingly, the very fact that he wrote the article might suggest that Churchill, a third-degree initiate, could have had an [[intuition]] that life outside our planet can, and indeed – as he himself says – must, exist... In the late 1950s, Churchill revised the article a little, changing the title from its original ‘Are we alone in space?’ to the more specific ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’ By then there had been very many publicized encounters with UFOs and the space people and [[George Adamski]] had published his world famous books, [[George Adamski|Flying Saucers have landed in 1953 and Inside the Space Ships in 1955]].
**[https://share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2017/2017-04.htm#correo Phyllis Power in Winston Churchill and UFOs, ''Share International''], April 2017

* [[Hypnotism]] will become more and more a tool of scientific investigation. [[Telepathy]] will be proven without a doubt, and utilized, sadly enough in the beginning, for purposes of [[war]] and intrigue. Nevertheless telepathy will enable your race to make its first contact with alien intelligence.
** [[Jane Roberts]], in ''The Early Sessions: Book 2'', Session 45, Page 21

*When science progresses on various planes, then such visitations become less accidental and more planned. However, since the inhabitants of each plane are bound by the particular materialized patterns of their 'home,' they bring this pattern of camouflaged vitality with them. Certain kinds of science cannot operate without it. When the inhabitants of a plane have learned mental science patterns, then they are to a great degree freed from the more regular camouflage patterns … the flying saucer appearances come from a system much more advanced in technological sciences than yours. So strong is this tendency for vitality to change from one apparent form to another, that what you have here in your flying saucers is something that is actually not of your plane nor of the plane of its origins. What happens is this: When the 'flying saucer' starts out toward its destination, the atoms and molecules that compose it (and which are themselves formed by vitality) are more or less aligned according to the pattern inflicted upon it by its own territory. As it enters your plane, a distortion occurs. The actual structure of the craft is caught in a dilemma of form. It is caught between transforming itself completely into earth's particular camouflage pattern, and retaining its original pattern.
** [[Jane Roberts]], in ''Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness'', p. 101-102

*Unknown aerial objects have in fact been observed over many of our nuclear weapons bases and other nuclear facilities, and in some cases the appearance of these objects coincided with compromising the operational readiness of our nuclear weapons… If they wanted to destroy them, with all the powers they seem to have, they could have done that job. So I personally don’t think that it was a hostile intent.
**Robert Salas, US Air Force Captain (Ret.); Former nuclear missile launch officer, [https://www.press.org/events/witness-testimony-ufos-nuclear-weapons-bases ''Witness Testimony-UFO's at Nuclear Weapons Bases, press conference, National Press Club, Washington DC'',] (27 September 2010) See also: [https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/airmen-govt-clean-ufos/story?id=11738715 ''Former Airmen to Govt.: Come Clean on UFOs ABC News''] (27 Sept 2010)

*What struck me more than the book's [[UFO]] stories, however, was the common thread weaving among them of breathtaking alterations in consciousness associated with the experiences – sensations of leaving the body, of flying through the air or being "carried along by the wind," and receiving "startling and novel insights into the nature of reality" that reverberated thereafter with profound, life-changing effects.
** [[Susan M. Watkins]], in ''Speaking of Jane Roberts'', p. 2 (2001)

* (Gardner) writes about various kinds of cranks with the conscious superiority of the scientist, and in most cases one can share his sense of the victory of reason. But after half a dozen chapters this non-stop superiority begins to irritate; you begin to wonder about the standards that make him so certain he is always right. He asserts that the scientist, unlike the crank, does his best to remain open-minded. So how can he be so sure that no sane person has ever seen a flying saucer, or used a dowsing rod to locate water? And that all the people he disagrees with are unbalanced fanatics? A colleague of the positivist philosopher [[Alfred Jules Ayer|A. J. Ayer]] once remarked wryly "I wish I was as certain of anything as he seems to be about everything". [[Martin Gardner]] produces the same feeling.
** [[Colin Wilson]] in ''The Quest For Wilhelm Reich '', pp. 2-3

* These left me in no doubt that ''something'' was trying to communicate with us, but that direct communication would be counterproductive. It seemed to be an important part of the scheme to create a sense of mystery.
** [[Colin Wilson]] in ''Alien Dawn'', p. 352 (1998)

===''The Great Approach'' by [[Benjamin Creme]] (2001)===
[[File:Alien Autopsy Exhibit at UFO Museum - Roswell, New Mexico.jpg|thumb|The (Roswell UFO) crash was not an accident but a deliberate act of sacrifice on the part of each individual in the spaceship... The occupants deliberately... crashed the spaceship, so that we would have the evidence... five spacemen who could be studied and seen to be certainly similar to humans... the evidence — the vehicle and its occupants, because they were really etheric — disintegrated quickly back into the etheric. However, autopsies were carried out on the bodies and there is a film of this, so we have major evidence that this whole UFO question is real. ~ [[Benjamin Creme]] ]]
*All Hierarchies of all the planets in this system are in touch with each other, and everything that takes place in an extraterrestrial sense takes place under Law. '''All the planets of our system are inhabited, but if you were to go to Mars or Venus you would see nobody because they are in physical bodies of etheric matter, finer, subtler, than gas. If you were to go there and had etheric vision they would be as real to you as they are to each other''', but if do not have etheric vision — and the bulk of humanity do not as yet have etheric vision... to all intents and purposes these planets would seem to be uninhabited. p. 133

*[Mr. Creme was asked: "Was the spacecraft that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 a genuine “alien” craft with aliens as crew?"] The occupants of the spacecraft were coming from Mars. The crash was not an accident but a deliberate act of sacrifice on the part of each individual in the spaceship. Normally those spaceships cannot crash — they are made of etheric matter, so they have no weight, they cannot be destroyed. The occupants deliberately brought down the vibrational rate of the matter into the dense physical and crashed the spaceship, so that we would have the evidence of the spaceship and five spacemen who could be studied and seen to be certainly similar to humans on this planet, if not identical. The American authorities have known this for years but of course the evidence — the vehicle and its occupants, because they were really etheric — disintegrated quickly back into the etheric. However, autopsies were carried out on the bodies and there is a film of this, so we have major evidence that this whole UFO question is real. p. 133

*What we call the “Space Brothers”, the people who use the vehicles we call UFOs... have put around our planet [http://www.inquisitr.com/1638338/scientists-discover-an-invisible-shield-surrounding-earth-baffled-at-how-it-formed/#kpTVJWMWrplsyK0e.99 a ring of light] which keeps it on its axis... this ring allows it, within karmic limits, to be held so that the poles do not flip, which is predicted by many ‘prophets of doom’... Nothing can shift that ring of light which is put in place by our Space Brothers. Without their help this planet would probably be in chaos. One of the major activities of the Space Brothers is to neutralize the pollution with which we are destroying our planet — caused in the main by nuclear radiation which is pouring out from the nuclear powerhouses all over the world. p. 134

*The planet is already polluted to a degree which is now dangerous. Pollution is the greatest killer of all diseases of humanity, and much of it is of nuclear radiation. The advice of Maitreya and the Masters will be to close down immediately all nuclear-fission power stations in the world. They could be replaced tomorrow with a safe, fusion process of nuclear power as an interim measure before the coming Technology of Light. One of the main factors in maintaining our eco-system is our Space Brothers: we owe them an enormous debt.

*There are various tales in magazines and newspapers of people being taken up, experimented on, and things being inserted under their skin and so on. All of this is totally untrue. There is not a single instance of such happenings. All of these stories are the result either of the fevered astral imagination of people who want to feel these things and do so in an astral sense, which they then describe to others and so build up a climate; or work of certain negative forces in the world whose aim is to keep from the public the reality of the extra-terrestrial connection of this planet.

*All the planets at Hierarchic level are interconnected and are all in communication. This solar system acts as a unit — it is not one planet and a whole lot of dead planets. They are all teeming with life at different stages. We are at a midway stage; Venus is unbelievably evolved compared with this planet, as is Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn and various other planets. They have no need to carry out experiments on us; they know. p. 135

*They create the [[w:crop circles|crop circles]] as a means of letting us know, obliquely, that they are here — that the Space Brothers are real. Only they could simultaneously, in fields all over the south of England, in a few seconds, create unbelievably complex and beautiful crop circles. p. 135

*The Space Brothers, who use the UFOs, perform their task of salvage, which is their real work on this planet, in a way which does not infringe our free will. They leave tangential proof of their presence. They create the crop circles, for example, in corn, which is seasonal and after a time is cut down. Governmental officials bribe farmers to cut the corn as soon as the circles appear. This is happening all over the world: there is a huge international conspiracy against the revelation of the true nature of the UFO phenomenon. p. 137

*The Space Brothers — in particular the Martians with their advanced technology — have placed this [http://www.inquisitr.com/1638338/scientists-discover-an-invisible-shield-surrounding-earth-baffled-at-how-it-formed/#kpTVJWMWrplsyK0e.99 ring of cosmic light] around our planet, which holds the Earth in its axis, intact. The Martians have the ability to use light like that because they have not made our mistakes. p. 235

=== Presidential Briefing for President Barack Obama, by Steven Greer, Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (23 January 2009)===
[http://siriusdisclosure.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/obama-briefing-introduction.pdf (full text online)]

*'''Since the mid-1950s, classified projects connected to extraterrestrial matters have operated outside of constitutionally required oversight and control by the President and Congress.''' This constitutes a grave and ongoing threat to US national security and global security and peace. The implications of this subject are such that no aspect of life on Earth will be unaffected by its Disclosure. We are acutely aware that this subject is highly controversial and suffers from great social opprobrium within certain elite circles and within the mainstream media.

*Indeed, secrecy on the subject has, in part, been maintained by a carefully orchestrated psychological nexus of ridicule, fear, intimidation and disinformation that makes it difficult for any public figure to openly address the matter... Because of this misguided secrecy, the wondrous new sciences related to advanced energy generation, propulsion and transportation have been withheld from the people. These advances include the generation of limitless clean energy from the so-called zero point energy field and [[w:Quantum fluctuation|quantum vacuum flux field]] from the space around us, and propulsion that has been termed (incorrectly) anti-gravity. The field of electromagnetic energy that is teeming all around us and which is embedded within the fabric of space/time can easily run all of the energy needs of the Earth – without pollution, oil, gas, coal, centralized utilities or nuclear power.

*'''The world will not find justice and peace so long as half of the world’s population lives in poverty while the other half cannibalizes the Earth to maintain its standard of living. '''This dire situation can and must be transformed into a world of abundance, clean and plentiful energy and genuine sustainability. On this foundation, with these new sciences, technologies and a new consciousness, we can move forward as a people, united and in peace. Then and only then will we be welcome amongst the other civilizations of the cosmos.

*The so-called [[w:Majestic 12|MJ-12]] or Majestic group that controls this subject operates without the consent of the people, or the oversight of the President and Congress. It functions as a transnational government unto itself, answerable to no one. All checks and balances have been obliterated. While as a governing entity it stands outside of the rule of law, its influence reaches into many governments, corporations, agencies, media and financial interests. Its corrupting influence is profound and, indeed, it has operated as a very powerful and embedded global RICO whose power to date remains unchecked. Upwards of $100 billion of USG funds go annually into this operation, also known as the ‘black budget’ of the United States - enough to provide universal health care to every man, woman and child in America.

*Interests in Europe, the Vatican and Asia, especially France and China, are urging Disclosure. If the United States does not move forward, these other interests will, and America will be left behind and become increasingly irrelevant in the world. This cannot be allowed to happen. The European and Asian arenas will move with or without US involvement at some point in the very near future, as well they should. Six decades of secrecy is enough.

*We are also morally obliged to warn you of an existing highly secretive plan to use advanced technologies to hoax an ‘alien attack’ on Earth. There exists within the direct control of this Majestic group assets capable of launching such a false flag operation and virtually every person on Earth, as well as most leaders, would be deceived by it. Components of this operation have been tested on the public over the past 50 years...

===''Before Disclosure: Dispelling the Fog of Speculation'', by Gerard Aartsen (2016)===
[http://www.bgapublications.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Before-Disclosure.pdf (full text online)]

*Untangling facts from disinformation. With speculation in the field of Ufology and exopolitics increasing exponentially by the year, or so it seems, and the craft visiting from outer space making their presence felt more visibly by the day, let us not waste any time acknowledging the proverbial elephant (or mothership) in the room: If the modern world was unaware of the space visitors and their intentions before the 1950s contactees began to write and speak about their experiences, why are researchers today ignoring their information and do we allow our perception to be obscured by the disinformation that was meant to discredit them?

*If we go back to the spate of contacts that inaugurated the modern age of Ufology in the early 1950s, the one outstanding fact is that none of the contactees, whose accounts were not contaminated by the disinformation campaign, had anything but positive experiences to share. The message they were asked to convey, even if just a few short years after the end of World War II and under the palpable threat of nuclear war, was one of empowerment for the human race: We must avoid further armed conflict if we are to prevent self-annihilation, and it is feasible to create a peaceful future through international co-operation and making sure everyone’s basic needs are met, as an expression of the oneness of humanity.

*'''However, being engaged in a nuclear and conventional arms race with the Soviet Union, the Western [[Military-industrial complex|industrial-military complex]], which includes the fossil and nuclear fuel industry, felt this message was not in their interest. So much so, that governments and their military who needed the public’s support for their ideological warfare and global arms race, decided in the mid-1950s that, despite the cover-up of the army’s salvaging of one or more crashed flying saucers, the contactees’ message of international [[co-operation]] for [[peace]] and [[brotherhood]] was being too well received.''' An indication of this popularity can be found in the fact that, within three years of its publication ''Flying Saucers Have Landed'' (1953), the book which included [[George Adamski]]’s initial contact experience, was reprinted twelve times in the US alone and published in seven (!) other languages.

*We should be very careful about embracing any information involving extraterrestrial visitors or technology that reaches us via ‘government insiders’ or ‘whistle blowers’ who may or may not have worked at secret laboratories, for the simple fact that we can never be certain whether their information wasn’t deliberately planted to feed or increase the public’s [[fear]] and [[confusion]]. Many of the ‘secret space programme’ (SSP) claims, for instance, coming from ‘whistle blowers’, seem to rest on a statement allegedly made by the late Lockheed Skunk Works engineer Ben Rich: “We now have the technology to take ET home.” But military aviation historian Peter Merlin, who attended many of his talks, explains that this statement was merely misconstrued from a successful tagline which Mr Rich used at the end of his talks since 1983: “The Skunk Works has been assigned the task of getting [the movie character] E.T. back home.” (Peter R. Merlin (2013), ‘Taking ET home: The birth of a modern myth’. ''SUNlite,'' Shedding some light on UFOlogy and UFOs Vol.5, No.6, November-December, pp.17-19)

*Given these circumstances, claims of ‘secret space programmes’ that involve humanity’s power elite roaming the solar system with the help of “off-world allies” cannot be scrutinized for accuracy, and are only corroborated by fellow ‘whistleblowers’ whose backgrounds are equally unclear and whose sources cannot be scrutinized either.

*Because attempts to silence these harbingers of a different, saner way of life with offers of money or intimidation did not bring the desired effects, it was decided to discredit their experiences and defame their character. At the same time, '''film makers were enlisted to seed confusion in the public mind with features such as Invaders from Mars (1953), Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956), Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), et cetera. So obvious was this effort that ''Flying Saucer Review'' eventually published a ‘Special Editorial’ in its issue of March-April 1959 stating: “We abhor this trend to condition world opinion through films and other media to fear the space ships.”''' (Special Editorial, ‘Why This Horror From Space Trend?’. ''Flying Saucer Review'', Vol.5, No.2, March-April 1959, p.15)

*As I indicated in the explication of the research method I use for my work, there are at least four plausible explanations for ‘abduction’ experiences: (1) when people adopt the prevailing terminology – ‘abduction’ – for what is basically a consensual contact experience, even if the strangeness of the memories induced feelings of fear e.g. Travis Walton no longer refers to his contact experience as an ‘abduction’ but as “an ambulance call” (‘Travis Walton shares new theory on Fire in the Sky alien abduction’. Open Minds TV, 2 July 2012) (2) when secretive government or military agencies stage a hypnosisor drug induced experience intended to confuse and mislead the public about the true nature of the extraterrestrial presence; or when sensitive people either (3) have an overactive imagination, or (4) tap into the thoughtform that has built up around this phenomenon, and convince themselves it happened to them, just as dreams are real at the time of the dreaming. (''Priorities for a Planet in Transition'', Gerard Aartsen, 2015) pp.172-74;)

*In order to decide if information can be trusted to reflect some level of truth or reality beyond strictly subjective experiences, we only need to see if it finds confirmation from several angles, or at least more than one, from people across time, disciplines and/ or social strata. This is essential in a field like Ufology, because tangible proof will be impossible until the time of open contact. After all, as a result of the disinformation campaign that has been going on for decades, even ‘disclosure’ by governments or their agencies will have to be subject to doubt simply because they depend on public support for their (geo) political agendas. Readers will note that our approach, therefore, is not a case of looking for confirmation of set beliefs to the exclusion of contradictory evidence, but rather a tool to eliminate disinformation, misinformation, and speculation.

==See also==
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* [[George Adamski]]
*[[Ageless Wisdom teachings]]
*[[Democracy]]
*[[Diplomacy]]
*[[Evolution]]
* [[Dr. Steven Greer]]
*[[Hidden Truth Forbidden Knowledge (2013)|Hidden Truth Forbidden Knowledge]]
*[[Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth|''Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'', by R. Buckminster Fuller]]
*[[Space people]]
*[[World peace]]
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*[[Corruption]]
* [[Deception]]
*[[Ignorance]]
*[[Incompetence]]
*[[Insanity]]
*[[Military-industrial complex]]
*[[Selfishness]]
*[[Totalitarianism]]
*[[Tyranny]]
*[[Violence]]
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== External links ==
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* [[w:Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence|Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence]]
*[http://www.bgapublications.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Before-Disclosure.pdf "Before Disclosure: Dispelling the Fog of Speculation" by Gerard Aartsen] (full text online)] (2016)
*[https://vimeo.com/124604396 ''End the UFO/ET Disclosure nonsense!''] Video compilation (2015)
*[http://siriusdisclosure.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/obama-briefing-introduction.pdf Special Presidential Briefing for President Barack Obama (Topic: the massive UFO cover-up) 23 January 2009 by Dr. Steven Greer] (PDF)

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Second Boer War

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JMK: Smuts

The '''[[w:Second Boer War|Second Boer War]]''' (11 October 1899 - 31 May 1902), also known as the '''Boer War''', '''Anglo-Boer War''', or '''South African War''', was fought between the [[w:British Empire|British Empire]] and two [[w:Boer Republics|independent Boer states]], the [[w:South African Republic|South African Republic]] (Republic of Transvaal) and the [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]], over the Empire's influence in South Africa. The trigger of the war was the discovery of diamonds and gold in the Boer states. Initial Boer attacks were successful, and although British reinforcements later reversed these, the war continued for years with Boer [[w:guerrilla warfare|guerrilla warfare]], until harsh British counter-measures including a [[w:scorched earth policy|scorched earth policy]] brought the Boers to terms.

==Quotes==
[[File:Lord Milner.jpg|thumb|right|There is only one possible settlement – war! It has got to come ... The difficulty is in the occasion and not the job itself, that is very easily done and I think nothing of the bogies and difficulties of settling South Africa afterwards. ~ [[Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner|Alfred Milner]]]]
*[W]here we were obliged to part company with our friends was here—that we held and still hold that war was neither intended nor desired by the Government and the people of Great Britain, but that it was forced upon us without adequate reason, entirely against our will.
**[[H. H. Asquith]], speech in the Liverpool Street Station Hotel, London (20 June 1901), quoted in ''Speeches by The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G.'' (1927), p. 40

*Although small by European standards, the [[w:British Army during the Victorian Era|British Army]] was a professional army. The men signed on for a [[w:shilling|shilling]] a day for a minimum of six years. Life in the Army was exceptionally hard and [[w:Officer (armed forces)#United Kingdom|commissions]] for [[w:Enlisted rank|enlisted men]] were virtually unheard of. The ranks were consequently not a place for men of ambition, means, or education and much of the British Army was composed of regiments raised in [[Ireland]] or the [[w:Scottish Highlands|highland areas]] of [[Scotland]] of men for whom the Army, whatever its shortcomings, promised a temporary refuge from the vicious cycle of [[w:Poverty in the United Kingdom#History|rural destitution and urban poverty]].
** [[IMDbTitle:9289206|''The Boer War: 1899-1902'']] (1992), written and directed by [[w:Andrew Aitken|Andrew Aitken]]

*[Bryce] had said from the first that the war had been a hideous blunder, and he had supported that opinion in the House of Commons. (Cheers.) ... Stop the farm-burning; it had been a great mistake and was against British ideas. (Cheers.) Recognize that they were dealing with men whose bravery and tenacity they could admire, and offer terms to the representatives of the two Republics and to the burghers who were now in arms.
** [[James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce|James Bryce]], speech in the public baths of Caledonian Road, Islington, London (12 December 1900), quoted in ''The Times'' (13 December 1900), p. 10

*Having condemned the policy of severity which had been adopted with the object of bringing the [Boer] war to a conclusion, [Bryce] said that it might be doubted whether anything short of the restoration of the independence of the two Republics — subject of course to a measure of British control — would have the effect of inducing the Boers to lay down their arms. The passion for independence was strong; it had been the cherished ideal of those people ever since they quitted Cape Colony and won the country for themselves. Our demand for unconditional surrender was a fatal blunder. ... What was a reasonable offer? In the first place, there ought to be an amnesty. ... The second point in the terms should be a grant of money to rebuild the burned homesteads and restock the devastated farms. ... Nothing would do more to accelerate the return of peace and order than to give the people occupation and a chance of living. Then, it should be part of any reasonable offer to the Boers that there should be a speedy restoration of self-governing institutions.
**[[James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce|James Bryce]], speech to the Women's National Liberal Association Conference, Memorial Hall, London (12 June 1901), quoted in ''The Times'' (13 June 1901), p. 12

*The danger which threatened the natives in the future, at any rate in the mining districts, would arise from the desire to obtain a constant and cheap supply of native labour for the mines. It would be the duty of those in authority to guard the native against the oppressive laws which were in force in the Dutch Republics. In conclusion, [Bryce] protested against a policy of harshness and violence in South Africa. We should try to inculcate forbearance, wisdom, and the generosity into the minds of those who had the government of the country.
**[[James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce|James Bryce]] in a speech to the Women's National Liberal Association Conference, Memorial Hall, London (12 June 1901), as quoted in ''The Times'' (13 June 1901), p. 12

*What is that policy? That now that we had got the men we had been fighting against down, we should punish them as severely as possible, devastate their country, burn their homes, break up their very instruments of agriculture... It is that we should sweep – as the Spaniards did in Cuba; and how we denounced the Spaniards! – the women and children into camps...in some of which the death-rate has risen so high as 430 in the thousand. I do not say for a moment, because I do not think for a moment, that this is the deliberate and intentional policy of His Majesty's Government...at all events, it is the thing which is being done at this moment in the name and by the authority of this most humane and Christian nation. Yesterday I asked the leader of the House of Commons when the information would be afforded, of which we are so sadly in want. My request was refused. [[Arthur Balfour|Mr. Balfour]] treated us with a short disquisition on the nature of war. A phrase often used is that "war is war", but when one comes to ask about it one is told that no war is going on, that it is not war. When is a war not a war? When it is carried on by '''methods of barbarism''' in South Africa.
**[[Henry Campbell-Bannerman]], speech in the Holborn Restaurant (14 June 1901), quoted in John Wilson, ''C.B.: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman'' (1973), p. 349

* What of Dundee? ... No real attempt was made to stop General Yule but, instead, the burghers engaged in a drunken orgy of theft, to be followed as thieves, if not as drunks, by their wives. ... The Sabbath, throughout the siege [of Ladysmith], was a rest day, but the Boers interpreted their own rule as a rest from ''killing''. There was no rest from a preparation for killing, and ... they could be seen building a gun platform on Pepworth Hill, heralding the arrival of the [[w:155 mm Creusot Long Tom|Creusot]].
** Lewis Childs in Ladysmith: The Siege (Battleground South Africa), p. 69, ''Pen and Sword Military'', 2009

* But she [i.e. England] can be sure that this tricolour flag, grabbed from Fachoda and ripped to shreds in London, was brought to Pretoria by French Volunteers, and has taken its place next to those of the Southern Boer Republics to support their independence against the oppressors. She gave us a Hundred Years' War, and for a hundred years she has robbed the farmers from the Cape. Since then she has violated every peace treaty. Her hatred being even fiercer against the Boer, for there is French blood flowing through their veins.
** F. Chinier in La Presse Français et les Boërs, memoire de maitrise, Université de Lyon III, 1988.

* What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man … the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights.
** [[Winston Churchill]] in ''[[w:London to Ladysmith via Pretoria|London to Ladysmith via Pretoria]]'', 1900

* I came back from the land of dreams to reality and the hideous fact that Natal is invaded and assailed by the Boer.
** [[Winston Churchill]] in The Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March, 1900

* In the face of the insolent Ultimatum which had been addressed to Great Britain by the South African Republic, the nation closed it ranks and relegated party controversy to a more appropriate season. The British people were temporarily in accord. A wave of indignation surged over the country, and united men of different shades of politics and of varying religious creeds, making them forget their private feuds, and remember only the paramount fact that they were sons of the Empire. There were a few exceptions ... to prove the rule of unanimity, ... But these were ... fractitious Irishmen and political obstructionists who posed for notoriety at any price; and ... eccentrics and originals whose sense of opposition forbade them from floating at any time with the tide of public opinion.
** Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''

* Before hostilities had actually begun, refugees from Johannesburg began to pour down to Natal and the Cape, and there were daily reports of insults received by the Uitlanders at the hands of the Boers. Ladies were spat upon, and passengers suffered indignities sufficient to make an Englishman's blood boil. ... The European exodus from all quarters continued, defenceless men and women alike being subjected to insult and ill-treatment by the Boers.
** Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''
[[File:MT Steyn.jpg|thumb|The nation of the Orange Free State stands ready for war in such circumstances where peace cannot be secured with honour, and although we recognize our shortcomings, our nation depend on the power of God to deliver us and secure us a victory. With a deep understanding of what we can expect when we place our trust in the Almighty, our nation will enter the war with courage and will fight until the bitter end to preserve the independence of our beloved fatherland
~ [[Marthinus Theunis Steyn]]]]

* The Boers have shown far more humanity to their wounded enemies than the English. They also treated their prisoners, English officers, with much greater consideration and kindness. They never boasted or bragged in their Press or speeches about the victories they have won or of the deeds they have performed, as the English have blatantly done. They have exhibited far more racial decency and self-respect, both in triumph and in disaster. The Boers have fought without pay or reward. Their homes and country were at stake, and these they have risked, not for pay, or praise, or pension, but for Liberty and National Independence. For the time being they are beaten. Great Britain and the recreant section of Ireland, together with the Australias and Canada, representing a population of near 50,000,000, have sent over 200,000 troops and hundreds of cannon to fight and conquer two little nations with a total population less than that of the city of Manchester, and therefore the Republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State are, for the present, beaten. But they are not conquered!
** [[w:Michael Davitt|Michael Davitt]] in his [https://chessaleeinlondon.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/boerwar-news.jpg letters from the front], as quoted in "The Boers As They Are, Mr. Davitt's summing up"

* The military qualities of the [[Boer]]s […] were useful but not showy. They came by instinct and not by acquisition, and they cannot be sufficiently accounted for as the outcome of experience in the pursuit of game on the veld. They were neutralized partially by characteristics the reverse of military. The Boers were not remarkable for personal courage. If there had been in the Boer Army a decoration corresponding to the [[w:Victoria Cross|Victoria Cross]] it would have been rarely won or at least rarely earned. There is scarcely an instance of an individual feat of arms or act of devotion performed by a Burgher. On the few occasions when the Boers were charged by cavalry they became paralysed with terror. They were incapable of submitting themselves to discipline, and difficult to command in large numbers. They could not be made to understand that prompt action, which possibly might not be the best under the circumstances, was preferable to wasting time in discussing a better with the field cornets. They were subject to panics and, for the time, easily disheartened: and their sense of duty was not conspicuous. The principles of [[w:Military strategy|strategy]] were unknown to them, their [[w:Military tactics|tactics]] were crude, and with the exception of a very few who had fought in [[w:First Boer War|1881]], they were without experience of the realities of war.
** Gale and Polden, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15699/15699-h/15699-h.htm#fig-so-transvaal A Handbook of the Boer War], p. 6 (1910)

* The Boers rarely failed [in combat] when commanded by a resolute leader who knew his own mind and was able to impose his own will upon them. In isolated enterprises daringly conducted, they were usually efficient, and sometimes irresistible, but like most primitive communities in which the military instinct is individual rather than collective, they were incapable of forming themselves into a coherent and unified Army for action in mass.
** Gale and Polden, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15699/15699-h/15699-h.htm#fig-so-transvaal A Handbook of the Boer War], p. 152 (1910)

* Learn your lessons, if you wish to, from the Boer War. Those who have been enemies of that [British] empire a few years ago, have now become friends.
**[[Mahatma Gandhi]] in his ''Benares University Speech'' (1949), as quoted in ''[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=pjN3jZQ74AoC&pg=PA136#v=onepage&q&f=false The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings]'', p. 136

* In the Boer war both governments began with bluff, but they couldn't stay there; the military tension was too much for them.
** [[William James]] in ''The Moral Equivalent of War'', 1906

* [I have done my utmost for peace, despite England pushing the Boers out of their inheritance bit by bit, and taking advantage of us in every conference and native war. My hope till the present war had been for a South African Confederacy under English protection – the Cape, Natal, Free State and Transvaal all having equal rights and local self-government. ...] But now we can only leave it to God. If it is His will that the Transvaal perish, we can only do our best.
**[[Piet Joubert]] in conversation with [[w:Henry Nevinson|Henry Nevinson]] on 2 October 1899, at the outbreak of war, ''The Diary of a Siege'', 1900, H. W. Nevinson.

* All you read about the Boers in England is absolutely untrue. They are most kind to the wounded and prisoners, looking after them as well as their own wounded, and anything they've got they'll give you if you ask them, even if they deprive themselves. We came up to Pretoria in first-class sleeping carriages, and the way they treated us was most considerate, feeding us and giving us coffee every time we stopped. The day we arrived we took up quarters on the race-course, but we have been moved into a fine brick building with baths, electric light, etc. [...] In fact we can have everything we like except our liberty; for some reason or other, they won't at present give us parole, and we are surrounded by sentries. [...] They say they won't exchange the officers at any price.
** Letter by Lieutenant C. E. Kinahan of the Royal Irish Fusiliers who was taken prisoner at Nicholson's Nek, as quoted in the Daily News of 28 December 1899.

* Through the ''World'' I thank the people of the United States most sincerely for their sympathy. Last Monday the Republic gave Great Britain fourty-eight hours' notice within which to give the Republic an assurance that the present dispute would be settled by arbitration or other peaceful means, and that the troops would be removed from the borders. This expires at five to-day. The British Agent has been recalled. War is certain. The Republics are determined, if they must belong to Great Britain, that a price will have to be paid which will stagger humanity. They have, however, full faith. The sun of liberty will arise in South Africa as it arose in North America.
** [[Paul Kruger]] by telegram on 11 October 1899 to ''New York World'', as quoted by Louis Creswicke in South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, ''Library of Alexandria''

* There is only one possible settlement – war! It has got to come ... The difficulty is in the occasion and not the job itself, that is very easily done and I think nothing of the bogies and difficulties of settling South Africa afterwards. You will find a very different tone and temper when the center of unrest is dealt with.
** [[Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner|Alfred Milner]] as recorded by [[w:James Percy FitzPatrick|Percy FitzPatrick]], cited in ''Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa'', 2008, Martin Meredith, p. 374

*You may carry fire and sword into the midst of peace and industry—such a war of the strongest Government in the world against this weak little Republic, and the strongest Government in the world, with untold wealth and inexhaustible resources, will bring you no glory. (Renewed and prolonged cheering.) It will bring you no profit but mischief, and it will be wrong. (Hear, hear.) You may make thousands of women widows and thousands of children fatherless. It will be wrong. (Cheers.) You may add a new province to your Empire. It will still be wrong. (Renewed cheers.) You may give greater buoyancy to the South African stock and share market. (Hear, hear.) You may create South African booms. You may send the price of [[Cecil Rhodes|Mr. Rhodes]]'s Chartereds up to the point beyond the dream of avarice. Yes, even then it will be wrong. (Loud and continued cheering.)
**[[John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn|John Morley]], speech to a meeting called by the Transvaal Committee of Manchester and Liverpool in St. James's-hall, Manchester, against the Boer War (15 September 1899), quoted in ''The Times'' (16 September 1899), p. 8

* And only then I realize, how much my freedom meant When the searchlight from the gunboat Casts it's rays upon my tent
** From ''[http://www.wmbr.org.za/view.asp?pg=research&pgsub=prison&pgsub1=2&head1=Prisoners%20of%20War The Searchlight]'', a poem by [https://www.geni.com/people/Joubert-Reitz/6000000014532211063 Joubert Reitz] while prisoner of war in Bermuda

* ... the [[w:Jameson Raid|Jameson Raid]] was the real declaration of war. And that is so in spite of the four years of truce that followed... [the] aggressors consolidated their alliance... the defenders on the other hand silently and grimly prepared for the inevitable.
** [[Jan Smuts]], as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, ''Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision'' {{ISBN|978-1-86842-390-3}}

* The groans of the dying and the blanched set faces of the dead ... were enough to drive away all unwholesome feelings of exultation, and to remind one of the grim reality that war is. And even though these were the faces and the sufferings of our enemy, one had ... a deeper sense of the common humanity which knows no racial distinctions.
** [[Jan Smuts]] in ''Memoirs of the Boer War'', p. 151, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, ''Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision'', p. 15. {{ISBN|978-1-86842-390-3}}

* A second important consequence of this policy of spoliation has been the elimination from the Boer ranks of all those elements which are useless from a military point of view. The ordeal has been too terrible for the weak and the faint. First of all went the irresponsible braggarts who had clamoured for war and had called the peacemakers cowards and traitors. The man who expected to gain something from continuing in the field; the man who preferred to protect his property; the man who had lost all hope of a successful issue followed. There remain the stout-hearted and able-bodied – the men of physical courage, the men of moral endurance, whom self-respect and honour keep true to their country’s cause; the men of invincible hope in the future and child-like faith in God – truly a select band, the like of whom, I fondly think, is not to be found in the wide world today.
** [[Jan Smuts]] in a letter written while on commando at Vanrhynsdorp, 4 January 1902, as quoted in his private papers by Hancock and van der Poel.

*One day eight years later, I found myself talking over these events with [[Louis Botha|General Botha]], who was visiting this country as first Prime Minister of the South African Union. Just as I was leaving he stopped me for a moment and said: ‘After all, three words made peace and union in South Africa: “methods of barbarism.”’ Softening the epigram a little, he went on to speak of the tremendous impression which had been made upon men fighting a losing battle with an apparently hopeless future by the fact that the leader of one of the great English parties had had the courage to say this thing, and to brave the obloquy which it brought upon him. So far from encouraging them to a hopeless resistance, it touched their hearts and made them think seriously of the possibility of reconciliation.
**[[w:J. A. Spender|J. A. Spender]], ''The Life of The Right Hon. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.C.B. Vol. I'' (1923), p. 351

* The Victorian age ended in the crash and conflict of the Great Boer War.
** E. H. van der Wall in ''[https://photos.geni.com/p13/70/07/7f/14/5344483a99de2b68/gendata_20_2__original.pdf The Boers at Diyatalawa]'', Journal of the Dutch Burger Union of Ceylon, Vol XVIII No 3, January 1929

* [The natives] regarded themselves, not without reason, as essential to the contending forces in the field, both of whom required native experts for, amongst other things the important work of transport, herding and scouting. For these services, which they well and loyally fulfilled to whichever side they were attached they received high wages and, though losing a good deal of their live stock, enjoyed the benefits which always fall to neutrals. The war thus left South Africa with a heavy legacy in the shape of high wages which every common unskilled native labourer had learned to regard as normal, and further there was engendered a spirit of independence and apparent aggressiveness which was a new and regrettable feature in relations between black and white.
** C. A. Wheelwright, in Native Affairs, Transvaal Administration Reports for 1903. A.1. (2 January 1904)

* The natives emerged from the War in a state of restlessness and unnatural excitement, with the idea that the object of the War had been to return to them their old lands, and that the white owners had been expelled for ever from their farms and habitations. They had become imbued with the idea that the country was now theirs to do as they willed with, and in fact that we had engaged in the war in order to win it for them. Wherever they got these ideas from they received a rude awakening. They found the country was not theirs; that we had not fought to give it to them, and most of all that the owners went back and still owned the farms the Natives now imagined to be theirs.
** C. A. Wheelwright, in Native Affairs, Transvaal Administration Reports for 1903. B.18. Annexure "A": Native Commissioners' Annual Reports, Northern Division, Political Aspect (2 January 1904)

==See also==
* [[Boer]]
* [[Drummer Hodge]]

== External links ==
{{wikipedia}}

[[Category:Wars and battles]]

Glenn Gould

2022-10-14T16:02:41Z

JMK:

[[File:Glenn Gould 1.jpg|thumb|right| I [[believe]] that the justification of [[art]] is the internal [[Fire|combustion]] it ignites in the [[hearts]] of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The [[purpose]] of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of [[wonder]] and [[serenity]].]]
[[w:Glenn Gould|'''Glenn Herbert Gould''']] ([[25 September]] [[1932]] – [[4 October]] [[1982]]) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]. He gave up concert performances in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career, and performances for television and radio.

== Quotes ==
[[File:Statue of Glenn Gould sitting in front of CBC building.jpg|thumb|The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it. And when that happens, when we forget these things, all sorts of mechanical failures begin to disrupt the functions of the human personality.]]
[[File:Glenngould-statue-toronto.jpg|thumb|right|My private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.]]

* '''The [[mental imagery]] involved with pianistic tactilia is ''not'' related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage ''between'' notes.'''
** review of Payzant, ''Glenn Gould Reader'' p445

* Never be clever for the sake of being clever For the sake of showing off.
** "So You Want To Write A Fugue", work's text

* '''The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.'''
** "So You Want To Write A Fugue", ''Glenn Gould Reader'' p240

* '''The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.''' And when that happens, when we forget these things, all sorts of mechanical failures begin to disrupt the functions of the human personality. When people who practice an art like music become captives of those positive assumptions of system, when they forget to credit that happening against negation which system is, and when they become disrespectful of the immensity of negation compared to system — then they put themselves out of reach of that replenishment of invention upon which creative ideas depend, because invention is, in fact, a cautious dipping into the negation that lies outside system from a position firmly ensconced in system.
** ''Glenn Gould Reader'' p5

* '''I [[believe]] that the justification of [[art]] is the internal [[Fire|combustion]] it ignites in the [[hearts]] of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The [[purpose]] of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of [[wonder]] and [[serenity]].'''
** Attributed to Glenn Gould (1962) in Payzant (''Glenn Gould: Music and Mind''), p. 64

* I wasn't motivated to do it [re-record Bach's ''Goldberg Variations''] until rather recently, when it occurred to me, on one of my rare relistenings to that early recording, that it was very nice, but that it was perhaps a little bit like thirty very interesting but somewhat independent-minded pieces, going their own way, and all making a comment on the ground bass on which they are all formed and to which they all conform. And I suddenly felt, not having played it in, well, since I stopped playing concerts, about 20 years, having not played it in all that time, that maybe I wasn't savaged by any over-exposure to it, and that if I looked at it again, I could find a way of making some sort of almost arithmetical correspondence between the theme and the subsequent variations, so that there would be some sort of temporal relationship, I don't want to say just exactly 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, that kind of correspondence, but, you know what I mean, there would be a sense in which, substituting for the fact that Bach had absolutely no melodic design that is continuous but rather a base harmonic design that is continuous, there would be at least a rhythmic design that is continuous, and the sense of pulse that went through it. And that seemed to me sufficient justification [...] to do it all over again.
** transcribed from ''The Glenn Gould Collection'' vol. 13 (Sony laserdisc).

* '''I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.''' I really can't think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that -- its humanity.
** ''Gramophone''

* I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day. A matter of fact, my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.
** transcribed from ''The Life and Times of Glenn Gould''

* And I think that this is something that we must all do in this day and age: I think if one is going to pursue performance at a time when the greatest performances of the past and of the present have been made permanent in the record catalogues where anyone can hear [them], one must indeed recompose it or find another way to make a living. I don't think there is an excuse for a performance that simply duplicates what's been done before.
** Interviewed by Humphrey Burton in 1966

== Quotes about Gould==
* Don't be frightened, Mr. Gould is here. (audience laughter) He will appear in a moment. I am not — as you know — in the habit of speaking on any concert except the Thursday night previews, but a curious situation has arisen, which merits, I think, a word or two. You are about to hear a rather, shall we say, unorthodox performance of the Brahms D Minor Concerto, a performance distinctly different from any I've ever heard, or even dreamt of for that matter, in its remarkably broad tempi and its frequent departures from Brahms' dynamic indications. I cannot say I am in total agreement with Mr. Gould's conception. And this raises the interesting question: "What am I doing conducting it?" (mild laughter from the audience) I'm conducting it because Mr. Gould is so valid and serious an artist, that I must take seriously anything he conceives in good faith, and his conception is interesting enough so that I feel you should hear it, too. But the age-old question still remains: "In a concerto, who is the boss (audience laughter) — the soloist or the conductor?" (Audience laughter grows louder) The answer is, of course, sometimes one and sometimes the other depending on the people involved. But almost always, the two manage to get together, by persuasion or charm or even threats (audience laughs) to achieve a unified performance. I have only once before in my life had to submit to a soloist's wholly new and incompatible concept, and that was the last time I accompanied Mr. Gould. (audience laughs loudly) But this time, the discrepancies between our views are so great that I feel I must make this small disclaimer. Then why, to repeat the question, am I conducting it? Why do I not make a minor scandal — get a substitute soloist, or let an assistant conduct? Because I am fascinated, glad to have the chance for a new look at this much-played work; because, what's more, there are moments in Mr. Gould's performance that emerge with astonishing freshness and conviction. Thirdly, because we can all learn something from this extraordinary artist who is a thinking performer; and finally because there is in music what [[w:Dimitri Mitropoulos|Dimitri Mitropoulos]] used to call "the sportive element" (mild audience laughter) — that factor of curiosity, adventure, experiment, and I can assure you that it has been an adventure this week (audience laughter) collaborating with Mr. Gould on this Brahms concerto; and it's in this spirit of adventure that we now present it to you.
** [[Leonard Bernstein]], making some introductory remarks on Gould and the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, by [[w:Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], at [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mwatts/glenn/lennie.html Carnegie Hall, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (6 April 1962)]

* Glenn brought an extraordinary awareness and imagination – he had a very plastic mind - and he was capable of growing, of changing too. Bach offers a very rich field for differentiation of approaches because he was so unspecific about what he did, in terms of performance. But every time one plays a piece, it’s an opportunity not so much to go where the composer didn’t, but to come closer to what one conceives of as being the experience of the composer or the intention of the composer.
** [[Leon Fleisher]], [http://www.thecounterpoints.com/interviews/2015/10/11/leon-fleisher Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher] by Elijah Ho (September 19, 2014)

* Glenn Gould, 'the greatest interpreter of [[Bach]]'. Glenn Gould has found his own approach to Bach and, from this point of view, he deserves his reputation. It seems to me that his principal merit lies on the level of sonority, a sonority that is exactly what suits Bach best. But, in my own view, Bach's music demands more depth and austerity, whereas with Gould everything is just a little too brilliant and superficial. Above all, however, he doesn't play all the repeat, and that's something for which I really can't forgive him. It suggests that he doesn't actually love Bach sufficiently.
** [[Sviatoslav Richter]], On Bach's Partitas Recordings played by Glenn Gould, in ''Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations''

* It is as a Bach player that he will live and his recordings constitute his permanent legacy. Sometimes, as in the Partitas, he forced professionals, music lovers and critics to reconsider the music, throwing overboard all preconceived notions. It was not only that he had wonderful fingers and an ability to clarify the linear elements of the music. Other pianists — admittedly, not many — could do that too. But none had his particular kind of firmly centered sonority; a sonority that Piero Rattalino, the Italian specialist on pianists, compares to the sound evoked by the great colorists — Horowitz, Richter and Michelangeli. Above all, Gould's Bach interpretations made the music sound different — different in tempo, in phrase, in dynamics, in conception. Elements nobody previously had paid much attention to suddenly sprang into high relief. But there was nothing eccentric or mannered about the performances. The music was passing through a mind that took nothing for granted. It was an original mind that worked on a different set of premises and principles from other pianists. One could not describe it as traditional Bach playing, or romantic Bach playing, or neoclassic Bach playing, or modern Bach playing, or musicological Bach playing. Whatever it was, it breathed a life and spirit unique in the history of Bach performance.
** Harold C. Schonberg, ''The Great Pianists'' (1987)

===The Alchemist===
: A documentary by Bruno Monsaingeon 
:'''Bruno Monsaingeon''': What a strange instrument you have!
:'''Glenn Gould''': I think that it has a quite good sound!
:'''Monsaingeon''': I am not talking about the piano, I was rather talking about this... this... this thing that I don’t know exactly how to call it...
:'''Gould''': That thing! (seeming to be irritated, imitating a German accent) Mister, don’t be so disdainful about a member of the family!
:'''Monsaingeon''': What do you mean by "member of the family"?
:'''Gould''': It is a travel companion, without whom I cannot work, without whom I cannot play. I have been using it for 21 years, this... thing! That we could also classify as chair!
:'''Monsaingeon''': Did you really perform concerts with it?
:'''Gould''': I’ve never given any concert without it; at least for 21 years.
:'''Monsaingeon''': Do you mean... that it has been as close to you as Bach?
:'''Gould''': Oh, very much closer for telling the truth.

== External links ==
{{wikipedia}}
{{commonscat}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gould, Glenn}}

[[Category:Composers from Canada]]
[[Category:People from Toronto]]
[[Category:Pianists from Canada]]
[[Category:1932 births]]
[[Category:1982 deaths]]

Glenn Gould

2022-10-14T15:59:05Z

JMK: Burton interview

[[File:Glenn Gould 1.jpg|thumb|right| I [[believe]] that the justification of [[art]] is the internal [[Fire|combustion]] it ignites in the [[hearts]] of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The [[purpose]] of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of [[wonder]] and [[serenity]].]]
[[w:Glenn Gould|'''Glenn Herbert Gould''']] ([[25 September]] [[1932]] – [[4 October]] [[1982]]) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]. He gave up concert performances in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career, and performances for television and radio.

== Quotes ==
[[File:Statue of Glenn Gould sitting in front of CBC building.jpg|thumb|The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it. And when that happens, when we forget these things, all sorts of mechanical failures begin to disrupt the functions of the human personality.]]
[[File:Glenngould-statue-toronto.jpg|thumb|right|My private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.]]

* '''The [[mental imagery]] involved with pianistic tactilia is ''not'' related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage ''between'' notes.'''
** review of Payzant, ''Glenn Gould Reader'' p445

* Never be clever for the sake of being clever For the sake of showing off.
** "So You Want To Write A Fugue", work's text

* '''The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.'''
** "So You Want To Write A Fugue", ''Glenn Gould Reader'' p240

* '''The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.''' And when that happens, when we forget these things, all sorts of mechanical failures begin to disrupt the functions of the human personality. When people who practice an art like music become captives of those positive assumptions of system, when they forget to credit that happening against negation which system is, and when they become disrespectful of the immensity of negation compared to system — then they put themselves out of reach of that replenishment of invention upon which creative ideas depend, because invention is, in fact, a cautious dipping into the negation that lies outside system from a position firmly ensconced in system.
** ''Glenn Gould Reader'' p5

* '''I [[believe]] that the justification of [[art]] is the internal [[Fire|combustion]] it ignites in the [[hearts]] of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The [[purpose]] of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of [[wonder]] and [[serenity]].'''
** Attributed to Glenn Gould (1962) in Payzant (''Glenn Gould: Music and Mind''), p. 64

* I wasn't motivated to do it [re-record Bach's ''Goldberg Variations''] until rather recently, when it occurred to me, on one of my rare relistenings to that early recording, that it was very nice, but that it was perhaps a little bit like thirty very interesting but somewhat independent-minded pieces, going their own way, and all making a comment on the ground bass on which they are all formed and to which they all conform. And I suddenly felt, not having played it in, well, since I stopped playing concerts, about 20 years, having not played it in all that time, that maybe I wasn't savaged by any over-exposure to it, and that if I looked at it again, I could find a way of making some sort of almost arithmetical correspondence between the theme and the subsequent variations, so that there would be some sort of temporal relationship, I don't want to say just exactly 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, that kind of correspondence, but, you know what I mean, there would be a sense in which, substituting for the fact that Bach had absolutely no melodic design that is continuous but rather a base harmonic design that is continuous, there would be at least a rhythmic design that is continuous, and the sense of pulse that went through it. And that seemed to me sufficient justification [...] to do it all over again.
** transcribed from ''The Glenn Gould Collection'' vol. 13 (Sony laserdisc).

* '''I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.''' I really can't think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that -- its humanity.
** ''Gramophone''

* I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day. A matter of fact, my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.
** transcribed from ''The Life and Times of Glenn Gould''

== Quotes about Gould==
* Don't be frightened, Mr. Gould is here. (audience laughter) He will appear in a moment. I am not — as you know — in the habit of speaking on any concert except the Thursday night previews, but a curious situation has arisen, which merits, I think, a word or two. You are about to hear a rather, shall we say, unorthodox performance of the Brahms D Minor Concerto, a performance distinctly different from any I've ever heard, or even dreamt of for that matter, in its remarkably broad tempi and its frequent departures from Brahms' dynamic indications. I cannot say I am in total agreement with Mr. Gould's conception. And this raises the interesting question: "What am I doing conducting it?" (mild laughter from the audience) I'm conducting it because Mr. Gould is so valid and serious an artist, that I must take seriously anything he conceives in good faith, and his conception is interesting enough so that I feel you should hear it, too. But the age-old question still remains: "In a concerto, who is the boss (audience laughter) — the soloist or the conductor?" (Audience laughter grows louder) The answer is, of course, sometimes one and sometimes the other depending on the people involved. But almost always, the two manage to get together, by persuasion or charm or even threats (audience laughs) to achieve a unified performance. I have only once before in my life had to submit to a soloist's wholly new and incompatible concept, and that was the last time I accompanied Mr. Gould. (audience laughs loudly) But this time, the discrepancies between our views are so great that I feel I must make this small disclaimer. Then why, to repeat the question, am I conducting it? Why do I not make a minor scandal — get a substitute soloist, or let an assistant conduct? Because I am fascinated, glad to have the chance for a new look at this much-played work; because, what's more, there are moments in Mr. Gould's performance that emerge with astonishing freshness and conviction. Thirdly, because we can all learn something from this extraordinary artist who is a thinking performer; and finally because there is in music what [[w:Dimitri Mitropoulos|Dimitri Mitropoulos]] used to call "the sportive element" (mild audience laughter) — that factor of curiosity, adventure, experiment, and I can assure you that it has been an adventure this week (audience laughter) collaborating with Mr. Gould on this Brahms concerto; and it's in this spirit of adventure that we now present it to you.
** [[Leonard Bernstein]], making some introductory remarks on Gould and the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, by [[w:Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], at [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mwatts/glenn/lennie.html Carnegie Hall, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (6 April 1962)]

* Glenn brought an extraordinary awareness and imagination – he had a very plastic mind - and he was capable of growing, of changing too. Bach offers a very rich field for differentiation of approaches because he was so unspecific about what he did, in terms of performance. But every time one plays a piece, it’s an opportunity not so much to go where the composer didn’t, but to come closer to what one conceives of as being the experience of the composer or the intention of the composer.
** [[Leon Fleisher]], [http://www.thecounterpoints.com/interviews/2015/10/11/leon-fleisher Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher] by Elijah Ho (September 19, 2014)

* Glenn Gould, 'the greatest interpreter of [[Bach]]'. Glenn Gould has found his own approach to Bach and, from this point of view, he deserves his reputation. It seems to me that his principal merit lies on the level of sonority, a sonority that is exactly what suits Bach best. But, in my own view, Bach's music demands more depth and austerity, whereas with Gould everything is just a little too brilliant and superficial. Above all, however, he doesn't play all the repeat, and that's something for which I really can't forgive him. It suggests that he doesn't actually love Bach sufficiently.
** [[Sviatoslav Richter]], On Bach's Partitas Recordings played by Glenn Gould, in ''Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations''

* It is as a Bach player that he will live and his recordings constitute his permanent legacy. Sometimes, as in the Partitas, he forced professionals, music lovers and critics to reconsider the music, throwing overboard all preconceived notions. It was not only that he had wonderful fingers and an ability to clarify the linear elements of the music. Other pianists — admittedly, not many — could do that too. But none had his particular kind of firmly centered sonority; a sonority that Piero Rattalino, the Italian specialist on pianists, compares to the sound evoked by the great colorists — Horowitz, Richter and Michelangeli. Above all, Gould's Bach interpretations made the music sound different — different in tempo, in phrase, in dynamics, in conception. Elements nobody previously had paid much attention to suddenly sprang into high relief. But there was nothing eccentric or mannered about the performances. The music was passing through a mind that took nothing for granted. It was an original mind that worked on a different set of premises and principles from other pianists. One could not describe it as traditional Bach playing, or romantic Bach playing, or neoclassic Bach playing, or modern Bach playing, or musicological Bach playing. Whatever it was, it breathed a life and spirit unique in the history of Bach performance.
** Harold C. Schonberg, ''The Great Pianists'' (1987)

* And I think that this is something that we must all do in this day and age: I think if one is going to pursue performance at a time when the greatest performances of the past and of the present have been made permanent in the record catalogues where anyone can hear [them], one must indeed recompose it or find another way to make a living. I don't think there is an excuse for a performance that simply duplicates what's been done before.
** Interviewed by Humphrey Burton in 1966

===The Alchemist===
: A documentary by Bruno Monsaingeon 
:'''Bruno Monsaingeon''': What a strange instrument you have!
:'''Glenn Gould''': I think that it has a quite good sound!
:'''Monsaingeon''': I am not talking about the piano, I was rather talking about this... this... this thing that I don’t know exactly how to call it...
:'''Gould''': That thing! (seeming to be irritated, imitating a German accent) Mister, don’t be so disdainful about a member of the family!
:'''Monsaingeon''': What do you mean by "member of the family"?
:'''Gould''': It is a travel companion, without whom I cannot work, without whom I cannot play. I have been using it for 21 years, this... thing! That we could also classify as chair!
:'''Monsaingeon''': Did you really perform concerts with it?
:'''Gould''': I’ve never given any concert without it; at least for 21 years.
:'''Monsaingeon''': Do you mean... that it has been as close to you as Bach?
:'''Gould''': Oh, very much closer for telling the truth.

== External links ==
{{wikipedia}}
{{commonscat}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gould, Glenn}}

[[Category:Composers from Canada]]
[[Category:People from Toronto]]
[[Category:Pianists from Canada]]
[[Category:1932 births]]
[[Category:1982 deaths]]

Afrikaans

2022-09-07T18:29:01Z

JMK: add image

[[File:AfrikaanseTaalmonumentSlogan.jpg|thumb|right|Emblazoned on the entranceway to the [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|Afrikaans Language Monument]]:<center>''Dit is ons erns''</center>"It is our solemnity" is a paraphrasing of [[w:Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan)|Onze Jan]]'s question of 1905: "Is it our solemnity?" (''Is 't ons ernst?'')]]
'''[[w:Afrikaans|Afrikaans]]''' is a [[w:West Germanic languages|West Germanic]] language spoken in [[South Africa]], [[Namibia]], and, to a lesser extent, [[Botswana]], [[w:Zambia|Zambia]], and [[Zimbabwe]]. It evolved from the [[w:Dutch language|Dutch vernacular]] spoken by the European (Dutch, French, and German) settlers and their [[w:Slavery in South Africa|slaves in South Africa]], where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics during the course of the 18th century. With about seven million native speakers in South Africa, or 13.5% of the population, it is the third most spoken language in the country.

== Quotes ==
===17th century===
* A custom exists among our entire nation, where the inland peoples acquire the Dutch language, that they pronounce it in a very crooked and incomprehensible way, and cause us to imitate them therein, so that our Dutch children also acquire this practice, and the basis is laid for a broken language which eventually will be impossible to exterminate. Even less shall we be able to introduce the Dutch language among the Hottentot peoples, while they lack no competence in pronouncing the words correctly, without error, if you endeavor to dictate carefully to them, to which we should invest somewhat greater care.
** [[w:Hendrik van Rheede|Hendrik van Rheede]] anticipates a [[w:patois|patois]] in his 1685 diary, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 148, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

===18th century===
* The language of the rural people is as little pure Dutch as the language of German farmers is pure German. The men have a fulsome speech and the women folk have assumed ways of speaking which at times are truly ridiculous.
* Translated from German: ''Die Sprache der Landleute ist so wenig reine Holländische Mundart als die teutschen Bauern reines Teutsch sprechen. Die Mannspersonen nehmen das Maul dabei sehr voll, und das Frauenvolk hat Redensarten angenommen, die zuweilen recht lächerlich sind. Zum Exempel. Man frägt etwan, ob sie keine Bibel haben, so erfolgt die Antwort: "Onz heeft" geen Bijbel ... Wenn man sie aber aldann frägt: Wie viel Unzen gehen auf ein Pfund? so werden die schamroth.''
** Otto Friedrich Mentzel in Vollständige geographische und topographische Beschreibung des afrikanischen Vorgebirges der Guten Hoffnung, Volume II, Chapter 7, Glogau (1785–1787), as quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, pp. 149–150, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}. Mentzel proceeds by quoting an example of their affected grammar which suggests future Afrikaans.

===19th century===
* He had lost his mother tongue almost completely and acquired the mutilated Dutch of the colonists.
** [[w:Martin Lichtenstein|Martin Lichtenstein]] in Reisen im südlichen Afrika II (1803–1806), p. 151, in reference to German botanist J. A. Auge who settled in the Cape and assumed the vernacular.

* [I am acquainted with] that kind of bastard Dutch which was spoken in this country by the farmers and slaves, as well as among the Hottentots and various other heathen races, and which is not entirely absent from the speech of even the most cultured among Christians and the upper classes of people.
** J. G. Swaving referring to the Cape-Dutch he encountered as an interpreter at the Cape Supreme Court in 1828, as quoted in [https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02590190_585 The Coloured Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town] by Achmat Davids, p. 39.
[[File:Changuion.png|right|thumb|... cleanse from the Dutch spoken in this Colony ... words and expressions which are either entirely strange, or mutilated – [[w:Antoine Changuion|Antoine Changuion]]]]
* The main purpose of the following collection, as one can immediately infer from the title of our work, was to eradicate from the Dutch spoken in this Colony, if it can be referred to by that name, words and expressions which are either entirely strange, or mutilated, or at least to indicate in which way this may be done.
* Translated from Dutch: ''Het hoofddoel van de volgende verzameling, gelijk men al dadelijk uit den titel van ons werk kan afleiden, was om het Nederduitsch, voor zoo ver de taal, die in deze Kolonie gesproken wordt, dien naam dragen mag, van deels geheel vreemde, deels verminkte woorden en spreekwijzen te zuiveren, of althans den weg daartoe aan te wijzen.''

** [[w:Antoine Changuion|Antoine N. E. Changuion]] in Proeve van Kaapsch Taaleigen, included as a supplement to the second edition (1848) of his Nederduitsche taal in Zuid-Afrika hersteld [i.e. "Dutch language restored in South Africa"], Rotterdam: J. van der Vliet (1844).

* You can trust me that the ''plat Hollands'' is read more among us farmers than that which Changuion wants to teach us in his booklets.
* Translated from [[w:Cape Dutch|Cape Dutch]]: ''Jij kan ver mij gloo dat die plat Hollans meer gelees wor onder ons boere as die wat Sankion ver ons wil leer in zijn boekies.''
** A resident of [[w:Montagu, Western Cape|Montagu]] writing in reply to Changuion, as quoted by [[w:Johannes du Plessis Scholtz|Scholtz, J. du P.]] (1965). Die Afrikaner en sy taal 1806-1875: p. 180. Cape Town: Nasou.

* The language of the Cape! … As if the miserable, bastard jargon, which is the vernacular of this country, is worthy of the name of language at all. … The poverty of expression in this jargon is such, that we defy any man to express thought in it above the merest common-place … There can be no literature with such a language, for poor as it is, it is hardly a written one … Let, then, your language and your nationality go, and believe us, you need not fear for your religion.
** Editorial in [[w:Cape Argus|The Cape Argus]], 19 September 1857, a call for the extermination of the "atrocious vernacular of the Cape", the supposed nationality associated with it, and its replacement by English, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 212, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

* You neither speak Dutch, that is the pure old Holland vernacular, much less would you soil your lips with the [[w:patois|patois]] of the Hottentots about us. This I am sure is no offence, if I say you express your thoughts in a way which is not recognised in your pulpits, is not read in your books of law, does not figure in your scientific folios, and far less is it recognised as a language of an enlightened people, for it does not provide a descent vocabulary for the lowest of the low, nor for the highest of the lofty … It is one which is doing you and your children incalculable harm. It cramps your thoughts. It impedes your energies. It brings the blush to every modest women's cheeks, and makes the educated recoil with disgust too often. It corrupts the morals of your children, and befouls their innocent expressions ...
**The Cape Monitor, 14 October 1857, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 212, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

* People tell you that Afrikaans isn't a language, because it is composed of Dutch, French, Hottentot, etc. However, the manner in which the English language is patched together is wisely hidden.
** Rev. [[w:Stephanus Jacobus du Toit|S. J. du Toit]], ''[[w:De Zuid-Afrikaan|De Zuid-Afrikaan]]'', 11 July 1874.

* True Afrikaners, we call on you to acknowledge with us that the Afrikaans language is the mother tongue that our Dear Lord gave us; and to make a stand with us through thick and thin for our language; and not to rest before our language is generally acknowledged as the national language of our country.
** Exhortation in ''[[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|Die Afrikaanse Patriot]]'', 15 January 1876.

* An attempt is being made by a number of jokers near Cape Town to reduce the "plat Hollands" of the street and the kitchen to a written language and perpetuate it. They are carrying their joke well. They have a newspaper, have published a history of the colony, an almanack, and to crown the joke — a grammar. ... The promoters of the ''Patriot'' (accent the last syllable) movement are laughed at and ridiculed but they stick to their joke.
**The English press of Cape Town derides the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]], 1876, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 49, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.
[[File:John_Henry_De_Villiers_-_Baron_and_Attorney_General_-_Cape_Colony.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Poor in the number of its words, weak in its inflections, wanting in accuracy of meaning – [[w:John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers|Lord J. H. de Villiers]]]]

* Poor in the number of its words, weak in its inflections, wanting in accuracy of meaning and incapable in expressing ideas connected with the higher spheres of thought, it will have to undergo great modification before it will be able to produce a literature worthy of the name.
** [[w:John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers|Lord J. H. de Villiers]] in 1876, quoted in ''The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: "The First Congress" Phenomenon'', Joshua A. Fishman (ed.), p. 12

* [They] who … see no possibility of maintaining, or, rather, of restoring among the mass of the old Colonists the language of Holland, would keep out English by trying to make the lingo and slang of the lowest Hottentots the language of these people – even South Africa.
** [[w:Cape Argus|The Cape Argus]], 19 September 1877, commenting on the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]] and their followers, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 56, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* The protection of our mother tongue must be the most important consideration of such a Bond, for language and nation are one, and those who do not see this as objective, had better not become members of our bond
**Translated from Afrikaans: ''Die beskerming van ons Landstaal moet hoofsaak wees van so 'n Bond, want taal en nasie es een, en di wat dit ni tot doelwit stel ni, moet liewers ni lid worde van ons bond ni''
** Rev. [[w:Stephanus Jacobus du Toit|S. J. du Toit]] of the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]] on the [[w:Afrikaner Bond|Afrikaner Bond]] party, c. 1881, which would include [[w:Cecil John Rhodes|C. J. Rhodes]] as member, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, pp. 55–56, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* [Although] phonetically Teutonic, it is psychologically essentially a Hottentot idiom. ... It can hardly be expected that the descendants of the Malayo-Polynesian slaves and Hottentot servants, who originally spoke an agglutinative tongue, will have any improving influence on an inflecting language.
** Dr. Theophilus Hahn in a lecture at the [[w:National Library of South Africa|South African Public Library]] on 29 April 1882, as quoted in [https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02590190_585 The Coloured Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town] by Achmat Davids, p. 37

* For intellectual training Africander Dutch offers no scope, for it has no literature and a very poor vocabulary. For internal intercourse and as a trade-medium English is superior to it; and for foreign trade it stands nowhere.
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] as a [[w:Stellenbosch University|Victoria College]] student in 1893, quoted in [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/kann003gesk01_01/kann003gesk01_01_0016.php J. C. Kannemeyer], Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur 1., p. 173, ''Academica'', Pretoria / Cape Town, 1984.

===20th century===
* Afrikaans ... elegant; so simple, serious, and earnest.
** Translated from Dutch: ''Afrikaansch ... mooi; zoo eenvoudig, ernstig, en oprecht gemeend''
** [[:af:Hjalmar Reitz|Hjalmar Reitz]] in 1903, as quoted in Boer en Brit: Afrikaanse en Nederlandse tekste uit en om die Anglo-Boereoorlog, p. 285, by Ena Jansen & Wilfred Jonckheere, 1999.

* The general does not use pure Afrikaans in his speeches, nor a Dutch that can easily be confused with the language of a Dutchman, but a kind of Afrikaans with Dutch inflections that he inserts haphazardly without any particular plan, so that every now and then, by pure chance, he gets one of them in the right place.
** Translated from Afrikaans: ''Die generaal gebruik nie suiwer Afrikaans in sijn toesprake nie en ook nie 'n Hollands wat met die taal van 'n Hollander maklik kan verwar word nie, maar 'n soort Afrikaans met hollandse verbuiginge wat hij sonder 'n bepaalde plan holderste bolder inlas sodat daar nou en dan bij toeval een op die regte plek kom.''
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] commenting on the language spoken by general [[w:Louis Botha|Louis Botha]], quoted in Kannemeyer, J. C., 1995. "Langenhoven. 'n Lewe.", ''Tafelberg'', p. 302

* For how long shall we entertain two thoughts? If Dutch is our language, why do we not speak it? If Afrikaans is our language, why do we not write it?
**Translated from Afrikaans: ''Hoe lank sal ons hink op twee gedagtes? As Nederlands ons taal is, waarom praat ons hom nie? As Afrikaans ons taal is, waarom skryf ons hom nie?''
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] in 1911, quoted by J. C. Kannemeyer, p. 241, 1995.

* The Provincial Council accepted my motion that enables Afrikaans as a permissible medium up to the fourth standard.
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] in a telegram to his wife on 23 April 1914, quoted in J. C. Kannemeyer, 1995, pp. 296–7. It implied that Afrikaans received official status in the Cape as medium of instruction in the first six school years, and would effectively replace Dutch in this respect. The Christian community at [[w:Genadendal |Genadendal]] and the Muslim community of the Dorp street [[w:Madrasa|madrasa]], Cape Town, had however used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction many years earlier.

* Be loyal unto death to your traditions, to your religion, to your language and to your people.
* Translated from Afrikaans/Dutch: ''Wees getrou tot den dood aan uwe tradities, aan uw Godsdie[nst,] aan uw taal, aan uw volk.''
** Final admonition by [[Jopie Fourie]] before his execution on 20 December 1914, as quoted by Luan Schalkwyk in [https://www.kraaluitgewers.co.za/jopie-fourie-rebelle-held-se-afskeidsbrief-ure-voor-sy-dood/ Jopie Fourie: Rebelle-held se afskeidsbrief ure voor sy dood], ''Kraal Uitgewers'', 21 June 2017.

* If Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom went to ruin it would be an irrevocable catastrophe for South Africa. And it must not happen under any circumstances, for who has up to now preserved Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom? Not these people who hold symposia and talk big. The National Party brought Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom into being. ... Afrikaans is spoken in circles in which it was never spoken before. Today there is respect for Afrikaans from people who never had respect for it before. We should not complain that Afrikaans is going to ruin [due to language policy]. We should take pride and rejoice that Afrikaans is progressing with rapid strides in South Africa!
** [[John Vorster]] in his [http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/extract-speech-made-heilbron-16-august-1968 Heilbron speech] on 16 August 1968, as quoted in ''sahistory.org.za''.

* ...a bridge between the great, luminous West and magical Africa … Our task lies in the current and future implementation of this gleaming vehicle ...
** [[w:N. P. van Wyk Louw|N. P. van Wyk Louw]], quoted on a plaque at the [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|Afrikaans Language Monument]]
[[File:MakgobaHillLecture.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Afrikaans is a cancer that must be destroyed – [[w:Malegapuru William Makgoba|M. W. Makgoba]]]]
* Were it not that Afrikaans literature glorifies white supremacy, and were it not for the unutterable evil this literature breathes, one would simply dismiss it as inane, a crushing bore.
**[[w:Es'kia Mphahlele|Es'kia Mphahlele]], 1974, The Function of Literature at the Present Time: The Ethnic Imperative.
::– Literature in the ethos of Boerneef, 1938, ''Boplaas'', is taken to be intended here, which would treat its coloured figures as "obedient serfs" in a "feudal order", while former critics merely observed a "natural hierarchy" or "idyll".
::''cf''. [[w:Jakes Gerwel|Jakes Gerwel]], 1983, Literatuur en Apartheid. Gerwel points out similar sentiments expressed in Mphahlele, 1962, ''The African Image'', p. 107.
::''cf''. Godfrey Meintjes, 1995, Re-viewing the Past: Notes on the Rereading of Canonized Literary Texts, Rhodes University
::''cf''. Ampie Coetzee, Afrikaans Literature in the Service of Ethnic Politics?, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 103, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* Will Afrikaans survive the Afrikaner empire?
**[[w:Jakes Gerwel|Jakes Gerwel]] in 1975, quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* The recent strikes by schools against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction is a sign of demonstration against schools' systematised to producing 'good industrial boys' for the powers that be... We therefore resolve to totally reject the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction, to fully support the students who took the stand in the rejection of this dialect [and] also to condemn the racially separated education system.
** Resolution at a conference in Roodepoort of the South African Student Movement (SASM), proposed by V. Ngema and seconded by T. Motapanyane on 28 May 1976, denouncing Afrikaans and promoting boycotting of classes, as quoted in [http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/resolution-against-use-afrikaans-taken-during-sasm-conference-roodepoort A resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort], ''sahistory.org.za''

* The government is prepared to be as accommodating as possible as far as the use of Afrikaans at African schools is concerned. ... In the white areas of South Africa [however, including Soweto], where the government erects the buildings, grants the subsidies and pays the teachers, it is our right to decide on language policy. The same applies to schools in areas where there is no compulsory education. Why are pupils sent to schools if [the government's] language policy does not suit them?
** [[w:Andries Treurnicht|Andries Treurnicht]] on 17 June 1976 in Windhoek, in the aftermath of the [[w:Soweto uprising|Soweto riots]], as quoted in [http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/down-afrikaans-oakes-d-ed1988-illustrated-history-south-africa-%26ndash%3B-real-story-reader%E2%80%99s-digest- Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed.), 1988. Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest: Cape Town], ''sahistory.org.za''

* Unfortunately Afrikaans acquired certain historic connotations that resulted in its rejection by the black man, and these are political connotations.
**[[w:Steve Biko|Steve Biko]] (1946–1977) quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* And Afrikaans, this child from the soil of Africa, has already become an instrument for millions of people – yes, for more than just the Afrikaner … God's plan, however, had been the creation of another civilization with a new language from Africa … Afrikaans and this beautiful southern land are undeniably grown together.
**[[P. W. Botha]], quoted in [[w:The Citizen (South Africa)|The Citizen]], 19 May 1985.

* Afrikaans is a language that grew and developed from the soil of South Africa, aided by a variety of languages and cultures in our land, rooted in the search for an own identity and freedom. Its power and hope for the future has never been based on special privilege; but rather as one of the languages of South Africa which will have to meet the future shoulder to shoulder, with mutual respect and equal rights.
** [[Nelson Mandela]], in an [http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/1995/950817_atkv.htm address] to the [[w:ATKV|ATKV]], delivered in Afrikaans on 17 August 1995.

===21st century===
* At present local English does not seem to have any particular social value, and thus there is no apparent reason for its speakers to wish to preserve its distinctive features. This is not true of non-standard Afrikaans, which is valued as warm, intimate, and a sign of membership of the community.
** Kay McCormick in "Language in South Africa", p. 224, Rajend Mesthrie (ed.), 17 October 2002.

* Seen socio-linguistically, a language can never fully clothe the intellectual and affective life of its speakers unless granted entree to all functions. Of particular importance is that a language must enjoy access to the academic-scientific fields of language such as in politics, law, the media, and the university. Throughout the twentieth century, for just the reason of realising this ideal, immense expertise and energy went into developing Afrikaans. One thinks ... of the numerous scholars who could have made their mark internationally but chose instead to devote themselves to Afrikaans.
** H. P. van Coller in "The Medium of Teaching at South African Universities: the Position of Afrikaans" (August 2002), as quoted in "Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century", p. 106, ''Rodopi'', 2005.

* ...architect Jan van Wijk’s [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|remarkable 1975 tribute]] to one of the world’s ugliest languages makes, if nothing else, a great picnic spot on the way to the wine lands of Franschhoek and Stellenbosch.
**Bronwyn Davies or editor Richard Cook, in [[w:Wallpaper (magazine)|Wallpaper]], September 2005.

*…as it happens I am Afrikaans. …I actually do not think about it too much, just as I do not think about it too much that I have a liver. The current flutterings about Afrikaans, however, I find disturbing. It is not doing the image of Afrikaners, and hence also of Afrikaans, any good. …to beat one's chest in such a self-justificatory manner [a mere ten years after the end of apartheid] is bad taste morally. […] We are … being called up by certain parties to mobilise for Afrikaans, to fight for the survival of Afrikaans, and for minority rights. The problem is, however, that I do not see myself currently as part of a minority. When, in the 1970s and 1980s, as an Afrikaner, I resisted apartheid – and not in the 1990s when it became fashionable – then I felt myself part of a minority.
**[[Paul Cilliers]] in a letter to ''Die Burger'' (10 October 2005), as cited in ''No Lesser Place: The Taaldebat at Stellenbosch'', p. 133, Chris Brink (2006)

* At school, Afrikaans was a compulsory subject that I disliked intensely; it was a harsh language, like the people who spoke it. [...] In my father’s shop, ... I found ... to my surprise, that I was beginning to enjoy the language. [The] warm straightforwardness and ... earthiness in many of these people ... was richly and idiomatically expressed in their speech. And, although I have never advanced beyond being able to speak a sort of kombuistaal, I delighted in our conversations.
** [[:w:David Goldblatt|David Goldblatt]] in "Some Afrikaners Photographed, 1975 – Some Afrikaners Revisited, 2006", 2006.

* Slaves and Khoikhoi servants had the greatest hand in the development of the restructured Dutch. In the course of the eighteenth century both burghers and their servants, in interaction with each other, took the restructuring further. Dutch was simplified and a considerable amount of Malayo-Portuguese, as spoken the slaves, was injected. By the end of the century Cape Dutch had largely become what is now Afrikaans. In the western Cape, especially in its rural towns and farms, the main variety of Afrikaans took root as the shared cultural creation...
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* The first attempt to formulate a distinctive Afrikaner historiography was made by [Afrikaner] residents of the small town of Paarl [who] founded the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Society of True Afrikaners). They were effectively reacting against cultural domination by the British colonial regime. ... They based their own history on publications by European authors who were critical of British imperialism and on private correspondence and interviews with fellow Afrikaners. Though this was simple, naive history, it was a path-breaking achievement. It was the first book published in Afrikaans – the spoken language of the people – as distinct from Dutch, from which it had grown apart in the South African milieu by simplifying the syntax, changing the vowel sounds, losing vocabulary items that were not relevant, and incorporating loan words from the other languages that were spoken at the Cape in the eighteenth century – Malay, Portuguese creole, and Khoikhoi.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* The seeds planted by the Paarl thought leadership did not bear much fruit so long as Afrikaners were divided between colonial and republican regimes. ... In spite of many setbacks, Afrikaner leadership gradually attained their nationalist goals... They also re-segregated the white group into Afrikaans-speaking versus the rest. Afrikaans became the premier official language while English was given second-class treatment. The leadership vowed that there was to be no mixing of language, no mixing of cultures, no mixing of religions and no mixing of races.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* At the heart of Afrikaner nationalist struggle was the attempt to imagine a new national community with its language enjoying parity of esteem with English in the public sphere. ... This meant that Afrikaans had to be heard in parliament, the civil service, schools, colleges and universities, and in the world of business and finance; it had to be the medium of newspapers, novels, and poems, giving expression to what was truly South African. Instead of English-speakers portraying Afrikaners in reports, novels or histories as everything they were not: unrefined, semi-literate, racist, dogmatic, and unprogressive, Afrikaners had to define and represent themselves as the true South Africans.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* A good local example of [the process of promoting a language] is Afrikaans: a 150 years ago, Afrikaans was generally regarded as “a mere vernacular” (in the negative sense of the word), used only in the lowest social functions, was without a writing system and had no literature. Gradually, however, it became used as an instrument in the struggle against the imperialism of the British colonial government and against the Dutch-oriented elite’s preference for Dutch (and English) in high-function contexts[.] A number of teachers and church ministers then initiated a movement directed at the development (corpus planning) and promotion (status and prestige planning) of Afrikaans. Gradually, a feeling of pride in and loyalty to Afrikaans developed, and within about 60 years Afrikaans was recognised as a language of the public domain[,] a fully-fledged standard language.
** Michel Lafon and Vic Webb in [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00449090/document The Standardisation of African Languages ― Language political realities], p. 17, ''IFAS'', 2008.

* Few languages have engendered as much controversy, with regard to both historical development and place in modern society.
** Anthony F. Buccini and co-authors in [https://www.britannica.com/topic/West-Germanic-languages#ref603807 West Germanic languages: Afrikaans], ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', 2010.

* Afrikaans will survive and develop further in a range of dialects. That is important to me, that type of freedom. The Afrikaners don’t mean much to me.
** [[w:Koos Kombuis|Koos Kombuis]], as quoted in [https://mg.co.za/article/2013-04-12-00-oh-broeder-where-is-the-volk-now/ Oh broeder, where is the volk now?], Staff Reporter, ''Mail & Guardian'', 12 April 2013.

* This is why Afrikaans-exclusive or even Afrikaans-dominant white schools and universities represent a serious threat to race relations in South Africa. You simply cannot prepare young people for dealing with the scars of our violent past without creating optimal opportunities in the educational environment for living and learning together.
** Jonathan Jansen, [[w:Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[w:University of the Free State|University of the Free State]] in the [http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lees-dit-self-Hier-is-wat-prof-Jonathan-Jansen-se-oor-Afrikaans-op-skool-20131003 The Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture] on 18 September 2013, as quoted in [[w:Rapport (newspaper)|Rapport]]. Also see [https://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-04-wrest-power-from-english-tyranny Jansen: Wrest power from English tyranny], ''Mail & Guardian'', 4 October 2013.

* Afrikaans is a cancer that must be destroyed.
** Prof. [[w:Malegapuru William Makgoba|M. W. Makgoba]], [[w:Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[w:University of KwaZulu-Natal|University of KwaZulu-Natal]], in support of suggestions that Afrikaans courses be discontinued at this university, quoted in [[w:Beeld|Beeld]], 24 October 2013.

* By the 1990s Afrikaans was no longer the instrument of a chauvinistic Afrikaner nationalism. Afrikaner historians had begun to stress the multifaceted nature of our history, Afrikaans as a medium of instruction was no longer imposed on black schools and the language had been scaled back drastically on state radio and television. But [it could be celebrated that] Afrikaans, along with only three others (Hebrew, Indonesian and Hindi) were the only languages that in the course of the twentieth century made the transition from a low status, spoken language to a language used in all walks of public life, including literature, science and technology.
** [[w:Hermann Giliomee|Hermann Giliomee]] in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-war-against-afrikaans-at-stellenbosch The war against Afrikaans at Stellenbosch], ''politicsweb'', 28 April 2016.

* The past 15 years have been characterised by an increasing migration of Afrikaans speakers into the digital space – a space that offers exciting new opportunities for Afrikaans.
** Laurette Pretorius in [http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0041-47512016000400007 The role of the Afrikaans Wikipedia in the growth of Afrikaans], Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, vol. 56, no. 2-1, pp. 371-390, 2016.

* ... socio-political history often casts Afrikaans as the language of racists, oppressors and unreconstructed nationalists. But [Afrikaans] also bears the imprint of a fierce tradition of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, of an all-embracing humanism and anti-apartheid activism.
** [[w:Hein Willemse|Hein Willemse]] of the [[w:University of Pretoria|University of Pretoria]], [http://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2465048-more-than-an-oppressors-language-reclaiming-the-hidden-history-of-afrikaans More than an oppressor's language: reclaiming the hidden history of Afrikaans], 12 May 2017.

* The world [of 2017] looks completely different than in 1937. Then, communication was limited, and the introduction of radio – in Afrikaans – changed the world.
** SABC in [http://www.sabc2.co.za/sabc/home/sabc2/news/details?id=31216093-fdf3-4893-a9d9-73472a0e4d75 RSG celebrates 80 years of Afrikaans radio], 26 October 2017.

* ''[[w:Die Kandidaat|Die Kandidaat]]'', ''[[w:Katrina (film)|Katrina]]'' and ''[[w:Jannie totsiens|Jannie Totsiens]]'' constitute the golden era of Afrikaans film, as they delivered products of quality and intent which have probably not been met since. … these dynamic films sought to open up the eyes of the viewers to the brutally harmful and hurtful results of institutionalised apartheid on the other segments of the society, especially so to the so-called “Coloured” community. [Their] exclusion [from] Afrikaner identity, though sharing most of the culture and speaking the same language as “Afrikaners”, forms a central theme…
** Elmarie van Huyssteen in ''Unmasking Violations Against Human Dignity in Selected Afrikaans Films in South Africa 1960-1976: A Practical Theological Investigation'', an M.Phil. dissertation at the University of Stellenbosch, December 2017.

* A language without a commercial value will die.
** Willie Hofmeyr of [[w:Naspers|Nasionale Pers]], quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* The youth culture grabs the young language by its foreskin and gives it its first democratic climax!
** [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]] quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* It is unbelievable and / or unfortunate that even until today in this constitutional democracy we still have a society that sees nothing wrong with a language that was used as a tool of segregation and discrimination during apartheid which 90 percent of South African[s] bemoan; a language whose legacy is sorrow and tears to the majority of whom it was not their mother tongue.
** Submission by Criselda Makhubela, the Sedibeng East district director, to judge Bill Prinsloo of the North Gauteng High Court in ''[http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPPHC/2017/949.pdf Overvaal Hoërskool vs. Edward Mosuwe], Head of the Gauteng Department of Education'', early January 2018.

* By the time the protesters outside Hoërskool Overvaal lobbed a petrol bomb at the police, it was clear that something as simple as a school’s language policy could still inflame deadly passions 41 years after the Soweto Uprising against Afrikaans in black schools. I could not help thinking: what is it about Afrikaans that brings out the worst in us?
** Jonathan Jansen, distinguished professor in Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University, in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/opinion/2018-01-25-why-afrikaans-still-has-the-power-to-inflame-deadly-passions-in-sa/ Why Afrikaans still has the power to inflame deadly passions in SA], ''DispatchLive'', 25 January 2018.

* The courageous fight of the Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad against the apartheid state, its unearthing of apartheid secrets during the states of emergency in Afrikaans needs a firmer place in our Struggle history. The vicious responses to Max du Preez, Jacques Pauw and Vrye Weekblad journalists by the apartheid state, where the courts were used to close it down, is part of the proud resistance history of Afrikaans.
** Danny Titus in [https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/opinion/afrikaansisgroot-whose-language-is-it-anyway-15227846 #AfrikaansIsGroot: Whose language is it anyway?], ''Cape Argus'', 30 May 2018

* I publicly and in my personal capacity disagree with the phasing out of Afrikaans as one of the mediums of teaching at the [[w:University of Pretoria|University of Pretoria]]. As a country, you are shooting yourselves down. You will regret it in 30 years’ time.
** [[w:Tito Mboweni|Tito Mboweni]] in a tweet, as quoted by Goitsemang Tlhabye in [https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/titomboweni-tweet-draws-roses-brickbats-19003640 #TitoMboweni tweet draws roses, brickbats], ''Pretoria News'', 28 January 2019.

* There was some misunderstanding between ourselves and the minority groups in the country, to be quite frank, especially people that are speaking Afrikaans, because the previous regime invested a lot of resources and energy in them. Our coloured communities feel marginalised, not loved, feel they are on the periphery. 
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], the Gauteng education MEC, as quoted by Nonkululeko Njilo in [https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-05-03-panyaza-lesufi-leaves-office-proud-of-advances-in-township-education/ Panyaza Lesufi leaves office proud of advances in township education], ''SowetanLIVE'', 16 April 2019.

* Everyone knows that the [[w:Democratic Alliance|DA]] has failed to stand up for Afrikaans language and cultural rights despite their guarantee in the Constitution.
** [[w:R. W. Johnson|R. W. Johnson]] in [https://www.biznews.com/leadership/2019/05/24/strange-days-da-rw-johnson Strange days in the DA], ''PoliticsWeb'' and ''BizNews'', 22 May 2019.

* For Afrikaans as a language of instruction, this is a major setback. The language's ability to subsequently recover at tertiary level is most limited if aggressive efforts are not made from Afrikaans ranks to keep it alive as a language of instruction. Being pro-Afrikaans does not mean being anti-English. For that we have empathy. This is about the official recognition of a language and everything that happens concerning it. This is about the violation of a basic human right, namely the maintenance of a language.
** Danie van Wyk of the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysontwikkelingstrust in [https://www.litnet.co.za/konstitusionele-hof-wys-weer-hy-dien-engelse-kolonialisme-danie-van-wyk-reageer-op-hofbeslissing/ Konstitusionele Hof dien Afrikaans ’n gevoelige slag toe], commenting on the judgement of the [[w:Constitutional Court of South Africa|Constitutional Court]] in [https://www.litnet.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/FinalJudgmentCCT311-17Gelyke-KansevStellenbosch-University.pdf Gelyke Kanse vs. Senate of the University of Stellenbosch] (2019), ''LitNet'', 11 October 2019.

* The fact the [[w:Supreme Court of Appeal (South Africa)|Supreme Court of Appeal]] delivered this ruling is of great interest – it is the highest court that has yet ruled in favour of Afrikaans education on tertiary level. The cost order against [[w:University of South Africa|Unisa]] further confirms the moral high ground of students who demand the right to education in their native language. ... The ruling emphasises that Afrikaans also has a place on government-supported campuses.
** Alana Bailey of [[w:AfriForum|Afriforum]] quoted in [https://www.afriforum.co.za/en/afriforum-ruling-on-unisa-language-policy-an-enormous-victory-for-afrikaans/ Afriforum: Ruling on Unisa Language Policy an Enormous Victory for Afrikaans], ''Afriforum'', 1 July 2020.


* ... the [[w:Democratic Alliance|DA]] is already preparing for a historic and unprecedented political campaign to demand that Afrikaans be equated with English at [[w:Stellenbosch University|SU]].
** Dr. [[w:Leon Schreiber|Leon Schreiber]], DA-[[w:National Assembly of South Africa|MP]], quoted in [https://maroelamedia.co.za/nuus/sa-nuus/da-publiseer-bewyse-van-us-rektor-se-aanval-op-moedertaalonderrig/ DA publiseer bewyse van US-rektor se aanval op moedertaalonderrig], ''Maroela Media'', 18 October 2020.


* Inclusivity means that you involve all the speakers of all the varieties on an equal footing. No variety, including the standard variety, is considered more important than the others. Afrikaans is the sum of the language's varieties. We need to be able to greet each other with a ''mirrag'', ''hoesit'', ''saloet'' and ''aweh''. ... Broad alliances – in the spirit of the multilingualism advocate dr. [[w:Neville Alexander|Neville Alexander]] – is required to oppose the hegemony of English and create space for the indigenous languages, Afrikaans included.
** Dr. Conrad Steenkamp of the Afrikaanse Taalraad, quoted in [https://maroelamedia.co.za/afrikaans/afrikaanse-taalraad-se-nuwe-direksie-fokus-op-taaldiversiteit-inklusiwiteit/ Afrikaanse Taalraad se nuwe direksie fokus op taaldiversiteit-inklusiwiteit], ''Maroela Media'', 19 October 2020.

* ... the new language policy [at Stellenbosch University] must explicitly commit to increasing the Afrikaans offer to ensure full access for all deserving students who wish to study in Afrikaans ...
** Dr. [[w:Leon Schreiber|Leon Schreiber]], DA-[[w:National Assembly of South Africa|MP]], quoted by Unathi Nkanjeni in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-03-23-make-afrikaans-equal-to-english-da-launches-petition-to-end-war-against-mother-tongue-at-su/ 'Make Afrikaans equal to English': DA launches petition to end 'war' against mother tongue at SU], ''TimesLive'', 23 March 2021.

* ... one finds that that those who are calling for the exclusive use of Afrikaans in certain schools are actually inviting antipathy [which takes the] form of annual political football that politicians use to their advantage, which is a shame. Afrikaans is not an exclusive language for racist Afrikaners. In fact, the majority of its speakers, by dint of history, are not “Afrikaners”, ...
** Mashudu Mashige, research professor at [[w:University of Venda|University of Venḓa]], in [https://www.litnet.co.za/abusing-language-for-narrow-socio-political-and-racist-interests/ (Ab)using language for narrow socio-political and racist interests], ''Litnet'', 2 March 2022.

==See also==
* [[Afrikaans proverbs]]

== External links ==
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Last words

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[[W:Last words|'''Last words''']] or final words are a person's final articulated words, stated prior to death or as death approaches. Often they are recorded because of the decedent's fame, but sometimes because of interest in the statement itself.
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Sorted alphabetically by last name (with some monarchs and leaders sorted by their first names, e.g. [[#W|William the Silent]]). This article refers only to last words of persons who actually lived or are believed to have actually lived. Last words of fictional characters can be found in [[Fictional last words]].

=A=
*No comment.
*I hid a million dollars under the...
*I did what I could.
**Who: [[Edward Abbey]], an American author and essayist.
***Note: The first quote was a response as to whether he had any last words. (The epitaph on his memorial stone was "No Comment".) The second is an alternative as noted in the reference work ''Last Words of Notable People'' citing ''Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey'' by James Bishop. {{cite book |title= Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History|last= Brahms|first= William B. |year= 2010|publisher= [[Reference Desk Press, Inc]]|location= Haddonfield, NJ|isbn= 978-09765325-2-1|page= 1}}; {{cite book |title= Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey |last= Bishop|first= James. |year= 2010|publisher= [[Atheneuem]]|location= New York|isbn= 978-06891219-5-1}}.

* Van Halen!
** Who: [[w:Darrell Abbott|Darrell Abbott]] A.K.A Dimebag Darrel, former guitarist of Pantera and Damageplan.
*** Note: Said while playing with Damageplan at a club minutes before he was shot and killed onstage.

*Come Lord Jesus, come quickly, finish in me the work that Thou hast begun; into Thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit, for Thou hast redeemed me. O God of truth, save me Thy servant, who hopes and confides in Thee alone; let Thy mercy, O Lord, be shewn unto me; in Thee have I trusted, O Lord, let me not be confounded for ever.
** Who: [[w:Robert Abbot (bishop)|Robert Abbot]], English prelate.
*** Note: ''Last Words of Notable People'' citing ''The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury'' by Arthur Onslow (Guildford, England, 1777). {{cite book |title= Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History|last= Brahms|first= William B. |year= 2010|publisher= [[Reference Desk Press, Inc]]|location= Haddonfield, NJ|isbn= 978-09765325-2-1|page= 1}}.

* يام السرور التي صفت لي دون تكدير في مدة سلطاني، يوم كذا من شهر كذا من سنة كذا فعدت تلك الأيام فوجدت أربعة عشر يومًا (''Yam al-surur alati sifat li dun takdir fi mudat sultani, yawm kadha min shahr kadha min sunat kadha fa'idat tilk al-ayām fawajadat 'arba'at 'ashar yawman.'')
** Translation: In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot... they amount to fourteen!
** Who: [[w:Abd al-Rahman III|Abd al-Rahman III]], founder of the [[w:Caliphate of Córdoba|Caliphate of Córdoba]].

* من در حال رفتن هستم و شما مي خواهيد غذا بخورم؟ (''Man dar hâl raftan hastam, va shomâ mey khâhid ghazâ békhoram?'')
** Translation: You wish Me to take some food, and I am going?
** Who: [[w:`Abdu'l-Bahá|`Abdu'l-Bahá]], son of [[w:Bahá'u'lláh|Bahá'u'lláh]] and one of three central figures of the Bahá'i Faith.
*** Note: Spoken when food was offered to him on his deathbed.

* I don't know. [''Attributed'']
** Who: [[Peter Abelard]], a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician.

* שלף חרבך ומותתני פן-יאמרו לי, אשה הרגתהו (''Shelof charbecha umoteteni pen-yomeru li, ishah haragatehu'')
** Translation: Draw thy sword, and kill me, that men say not of me: 'A woman slew him.'
** Who: [[w:Abimelech (Judges)|Abimelech]]
*** Note: Abimelech was besieging the town of Thebaz when a woman threw a millstone from a fortified tower and struck him in the head. Realizing the wound was mortal, he quickly told his armor-bearer to kill him so that his death would not be at the hands of a woman.

*May the Most High God preserve thee from destruction, and from all the paths of error may He deliver thee.
** Who: [[Abraham]], first of the three patriarchs of Judaism, according to the [[w:Pseudepigrapha|pseudepigraphic]] [[w:Book of Jubilees|Book of Jubilees]].
*** See also: [[w:Abraham|Abraham]]

* It's okay! Gun's not loaded... see?
** Who: [[w:Johnny Ace|Johnny Ace]], 1950s rhythm and blues singer.
*** Note: Ace was playing [[w:Russian roulette|Russian roulette]] (or something similar; exact accounts vary) with his revolver on Christmas Day 1954, during a backstage break in his concert that day. Someone told him "Be careful with that thing..." and he replied "It's okay! Gun's not loaded... see?" Contrary to Ace's assertion, there was a bullet in the chamber, which, when he pulled the trigger with the barrel of the gun to his face, killed him instantly.

*''Ja, maar niet te veel.''
** Translation: Yes, but not too many.
** Who: [[w:Gerrit Achterberg|Gerrit Achterberg]], Dutch poet.
*** Note: Achterberg had just parked his car, when his wife asked: "Zal ik wat aardappelen bakken?" ("Shall I bake some fried potatoes?") After answering the question he suffered a fatal heart attack.
**** Note: ''Last Words of Notable People'' citing ''Het refrein is hein: Leven en sterven in een verpleeghuis'' by B. Keizer {{cite book |title= Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History|last= Brahms|first= William B. |year= 2010|publisher= [[Reference Desk Press, Inc]]|location= Haddonfield, NJ|isbn= 978-09765325-2-1|page= 3}}; {{cite book |title= Het refrein is hein: Leven en sterven in een verpleeghuis |last= Keizer
|first= Bert |year= 1997|publisher= [[Nijmegen]]|location= Amsterdam|isbn= 978-90616862-1-7}}.

*Oh, yes; it is the glorious Fourth of July. It is a great day. It is a good day. God bless it. God bless you all. [''He then lapsed into unconsciousness; he awakened later, and mumbled,''] Thomas Jefferson...
** Who: [[John Adams]], 2nd President of the United States.
** Note: John Adams died on July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He is often quoted as having said "[[Thomas Jefferson]] survives" or "Thomas Jefferson still survives" with some depictions indicating he might have not expressed the entire statement before dying, i.e.: "Thomas Jefferson... still survi—", but [http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=634 some research] indicates that only the words "Thomas Jefferson" were clearly intelligible among his last. Adams was unaware that Jefferson, his great political rival—and later friend and correspondent—had died a few hours earlier that same day.

* This is the last of Earth. I am content.
** Who: [[John Quincy Adams]], 6th President of the United States.
*** Note: John Quincy Adams suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on the floor of the U.S Capitol Building, as he had become a U.S. Representative from the 11th District of Massachusetts after his presidency. He died two days later.
** As quoted in ''The Truly Great: A Discourse Appropriate to the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams'' (1848) by Edwin Hubbell Chapin and "Illness and Death of John Quincy Adams" (''Little's Living Age'', No. 201, March 18, 1848), citing an account published in ''The New York Courier and Enquirer'', February 25, 1848 and other sources. {{cite book |title= Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History|last= Brahms|first= William B. |year= 2010|publisher= [[Reference Desk Press, Inc]]|location= Haddonfield, NJ|isbn= 978-09765325-2-1|page= 6}}.

*Principally, and first of all, I recommend my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.
** Who: [[Samuel Adams]], politician and Founding Father of the United States, in his last will.
*See in what peace a Christian can die.
** Who: [[Joseph Addison]], writer, d. June 17, 1719.
*** Note: Spoken to his stepson, the Earl of Warwick.
** As quoted in ''Conjectures on Original Composition: In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison'' (1759) by Edward Young and Samuel Richardson.
** Variation: I have sent for you to see how a Christian can die.
** As quoted in ''A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons and Remarkable Characters in Every Age and Nation'' (1805) by Stephen Jones.
** Variations of Addison's last words compared and discussed. {{cite book |title= Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History|last= Brahms|first= William B. |year= 2010|publisher= [[Reference Desk Press, Inc]]|location= Haddonfield, NJ|isbn= 978-09765325-2-1|page= 7}}.

* הפך ידך והוציאני מן-המחנה—כי החלית (''Hafoch yadecha vehotzi'eni min-hammachaneh—ki hocholeiti'')
** Translation: Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle — I am wounded
** Who: [[w:Ahab|Ahab]], seventh king of Israel

* The bastards tried to come over me last night. I guess they didn't know I was a Marine.
** Who: Private First Class [[w:Edward H. Ahrens|Edward H. Ahrens]]
*** Note: During the [[w:Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo|Battle of Tulagi]], Private Ahrens was mortally wounded while single-handedly fighting back a group of Japanese soldiers attempting to infiltrate Allied lines. After his superior officer discovered Ahrens the next morning surrounded by dead Japanese troops, he whispered these words and died.

* שמע ישראל אדני אלהינו אדני ''אחד'' (''Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad'')
** Translation: Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God! The Lord is ''One!''
** Who: Rabbi [[Akiba ben Joseph]] (Akiva)
*** Note: These words (the Shema, from Deuteronomy 6:4) were stated as R. Akiva was being flayed by a Roman executioner for his continuing to teach the Torah, despite the Roman prohibition on doing so (Talmud Berachot 61b). It is said that Akiva lengthened his saying of the word "אחד" (''echad'', "one") until he expired. Because of R. Akiva, it is customary for Jews to recite the Shema as their last words.

* Is it not meningitis?
** Who: [[Louisa May Alcott]], an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women''.
*** Note: Alcott had been in ill health for many years and took a turn for the worse after she visited her father. She did not have meningitis. She may have died of mercury poisoning, the after-effect of an earlier treatment for typhoid fever. {{cite book |title= Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History|last= Brahms|first= William B. |year= 2010|publisher= [[Reference Desk Press, Inc]]|location= Haddonfield, NJ|isbn= 978-09765325-2-1|page= 12}}.
** As quoted in ''Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals'' (1805) by Ednah D. Cheney.

* You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.
** Who: [[w:Alex (parrot)|Alex]], [[w:African Grey Parrot|African Grey Parrot]] used in comparative psychology research at Brandeis University.
*** Note: Spoken to his handler, Dr. Irene Pepperberg, when she put him in his cage for the night; he was found dead the next morning. This wasn't said due to Alex's knowledge of his impending death, but simply because that was what Alex said to Pepperberg every night before being locked in his cage.
** {{cite news
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1661695,00.html
| title = Milestones
| work = [[w:Time (magazine)|Time]]
| page = 24
| date = [[24 September]] [[2007]]
| accessdate = 2007-09-22
}}

* τῷ κρατίστῳ (''tô kratístō'') [''Attributed'']
** Translation: To the strongest!
** Who: [[Alexander the Great]], King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
*** Note: In response to his generals asking the heirless Alexander which one of them would get control of the empire. When asked on his deathbed who was to succeed him, his voice may have been indistinct. Alexander may have said "Krateros" (the name of one of his generals), but he was not around, and the others may have chosen to hear "Kratistos— the strongest".

* Несите меня во дворец… там… умереть… (''Nesite menya vo dvorets… tam… umeret…'')
** Translation: Take me to the palace... there... to die...
** Who: [[w:Alexander II of Russia|Alexander II of Russia]]
*** Note: His guards heard him utter this phrase when they found his maimed body under a seat from his carriage after he was attacked with bombs by anarchists in an assassination attempt. He lost his left leg and was taken home where he died hours after his wound.

* ''Aspetta un minuto...''
** Translation: Wait a minute...
** Who: [[w:Pope Alexander VI|Pope Alexander VI]]
*** Note: His last words have also reported to have been: ''Va bene, va bene, arrivo. Aspettate un momento.'' (Okay, okay, I'll come. Just give it a moment.)

* ''Chiudi la mia mano, cara amica, sto morendo.''
** Translation: Clasp my hand, dear friend, I am dying.
** Who: [[w:Vittorio Alfieri|Vittorio Alfieri]], was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."

* I'm in no pain. No pain. Don't cry for me, Rahaman. I'm going to be with Allah. I made peace with God, I'm okay... Rahaman, how do I look?
** Who: [[Muhammad Ali]]
*** Note: Rahaman Ali, a former heavyweight boxer, was Muhammad Ali's younger brother.
** As quoted in [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/04/muhammad-ali-told-family-he-was-in-no-pain-and-going-to-allah/ "Muhammad Ali told family he was 'in no pain and going to Allah'"] by Nick Allen, ''The Telegraph'' (4 June 2016)

*I'm sorry, boys. I'm all wet.
** Who: [[Gracie Allen]], wife and comedy partner of [[George Burns]].

* ''Más pronto que tarde, las grandes avenidas se abrirán de nuevo y los hombres libres caminarán a través de ellas para construir una sociedad mejor. ¡Larga vida a Chile! Larga vida a la gente! ¡Larga vida a los trabajadores! Estas son mis últimas palabras, y estoy seguro de que mi sacrificio no será en vano, estoy seguro de que, al menos, será una lección moral que castigará la felonía, la cobardía y la traición.''
** Translation: Sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again and free men will walk through them to construct a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers! These are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain, I am certain that, at the very least, it will be a moral lesson that will punish felony, cowardice, and treason.
** Who: [[Salvador Allende]], was a Chilean physician and politician. d. September 11, 1973.
*** Note: Last speech given before he committed suicide before the military forces entered the La Moneda palace when the 1973 coup d'etat took place.

*Fuck y'all.
** Who: [[wikipedia: August Ames|August Ames]], Canadian pornographic actress. d. December 5, 2017.
*** Note: This was Ames' final tweet before she committed suicide the following day. Over the past few days Ames had been subject to intense cyberbullying after another Twitter post where she stated her reluctance to work with a male co-worker who'd done gay porn due to risk of HIV or AIDS. Her comments were perceived as [[homophobia]] (despite the fact that Ames herself was bisexual), but in reality she was just taking a health precaution.

*Thank you all for helping to making my life the incredible tale it was. I'm sorry it had to end on such a heartbreaking note. Though I know for SURE hella people are gonna prolly laugh at it LOL I just hope there's at least some fresh me-me's that come of it. I'm dying as a guy hated by a lot of people, so I know you all won't let me down haha. Well, that's my cue. Time for me to go. I mean this with every bit of my heart... Take care of yourselves, and of course, as usual, please have yourself a damn good one.
*Um, Poki, sorry for scaring you so much. I really am sorry for that, I apologize. I was being stupid. Christine, sorry for being so hard-headed, and all the other horrible things I did. I mean, hey, two...two wrongs don't make a right, but I mean, y'know. Hmm.
** Who: Desmond Daniel Amofah, aka [[w:Etika|Etika]]
*** Note: The first quote comes from the end of the description of his pre-recorded suicide note, titled "I'm sorry". The second quote is the final words spoken by Amofah in the video. Amofah disappeared later that night, leaving his belongings at the Manhattan Bridge, and was found dead from drowning five days later.

* ''Spørg mig ikke, hvordan jeg er! Jeg forstår intet mere.''
** Translation: Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more.
** Who: [[Hans Christian Andersen]], Danish author of ''The Ugly Duckling'', ''The Little Mermaid'', ''The Emperor's New Clothes'', ''The Snow Queen'', and ''The Princess and the Pea''.

* I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man.
** Who: [[w:John André|Major John André]], a British Army officer.
*** Note: According to James Thatcher's book ''The American Revolution'', André raised the handkerchief from his eyes and said these words when given an opportunity to speak, moments before he was hanged as a British spy.

* ''Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès.''
** Translation: Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.
** Who: [[Marie Antoinette]], Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria.
*** Note: As she approached the guillotine, convicted of treason and about to be beheaded, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner.

* ''Aequanimitas.''
** Translation: Equanimity.
** Who: [[w:Antoninus Pius|Emperor Antoninus Pius]]
*** Note: When tribune of the night watch came to ask for the password.

* Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel.
** Who: [[w:George Appel|George Appel]], executed by electric chair in 1928.

* ''Mennyi az idő? Különben mindegy...''
** Translation: What is the time? Never mind, it's not important...
** Who: [[János Arany]], Hungarian poet.

* ''Μη μου τους κύκλους τάραττε'' (''Mè mou tous kuklous taratte'')
** Translation: Don't disturb my circles!
** Alternate: Don't disturb my equation.
** Who: [[Archimedes]], an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
*** Note: In response to a Roman soldier who was forcing him to report to the Roman general after the capture of Syracuse, while he was busy sitting on the ground proving geometry theorems. The soldier killed him, despite specific instructions not to, resulting in his execution.

* ''Zeg de mensen dat homoseksuelen niet per definitie zwakkelingen zijn.''
** Translation: Let it be known that homosexuals are not necessarily cowards.
** Who: [[w:Willem Arondeus|Willem Arondeus]], Dutch artist and writer, member of the Anti-Nazi resistance.
*** Note: He led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office, destroying thousands of files to prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews. Within a week, Arondeus and the other members of the group were arrested. Twelve, including Arondeus, were executed by firing squad.

* ''Tali segreti sono stati rivelati a me che tutto quello che ho scritto ora appare come tanta paglia.''
** Translation: Such secrets have been revealed to me that all I have written now appears as so much straw.
** Who: [[Thomas Aquinas]], philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism.

* Let me die in the old uniform in which I fought my battles for freedom, May God forgive me for putting on another.
** Who: [[Benedict Arnold]], general during the American Revolutionary War who defected from the Continental Army to the British.
*** Note: He wanted to wear his old Continental Army uniform.

* I love you too, honey. Good luck with your show.
** Who: [[w:Desi Arnaz|Desi Arnaz]], an American musician, actor, television producer, writer and director.
*** Note: He was speaking on the telephone to his former wife Lucille Ball, regarding her TV series, ''[[w:Life with Lucy|Life with Lucy]]''. Neither Arnaz nor Ball had yet been informed that ''Life with Lucy'' had already been canceled.

* Life is not worth living.
** Who: [[w:Chester A. Arthur|Chester A. Arthur]], 21st president of the United States.

* I didn't want to leave this world without knowing who my descendant was; thank you, Michael.
** Who: [[w:Fred Astaire|Fred Astaire]], American entertainer best known for his dancing skills.
*** The "Michael" is [[w:Michael Jackson|Michael Jackson]].

* The ladies have to go first. Goodbye, dearie. I'll see you later.
** Who: [[w:John Jacob Astor IV|John Jacob Astor IV]], an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family.
*** Note: The accuracy of this report is disputed. Astor and his wife were traveling on the [[w:RMS Titanic|Titanic]] when it struck an iceberg and began to sink. As Astor prepared to enter a lifeboat with his wife, a group of female passengers appeared on deck. He gave up his seat and spoke his final words to his wife; he was later found floating in the ocean, dead.

* Am I dying, or is this my birthday?
** Who: [[w:Lady Nancy Astor|Lady Nancy Astor]], an American-born English socialite.
*** Note: In her final illness, she awoke on her deathbed to see her family at her bedside.

* Nobody move please, we are going back to the airport, don't try to make any stupid moves.
** Who: [[Mohamed Atta]], [[w:American Airlines Flight 11|American Airlines Flight 11]] hijacker-pilot.
*** Note: This was the second transmission Atta intended to say to the passengers that he transmitted to air traffic control after he pressed the wrong button several minutes earlier.

* ''Acta est fabula, plaudite.''
** Translation: Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
** Who: [[Augustus]], the first emperor of the Roman empire
*** Note: His last words are also reported to be: ''Marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset'' – "I found Rome a city of clay, but left it a city of marble".

* I want nothing but death.
** Who: [[Jane Austen]], an English novelist known principally for her five major novels which interpret, critique and comment upon the life of the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
*** Note: In response to her sister Cassandra who had asked her if she wanted something.
** As quoted in ''Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History'' (2010) by William B. Brahms which discusses a letter from Cassandra to her niece Fannie Knight after the death of Jane Austen on July 18, 1817. Brahms notes the letter is reprinted in ''Letters of Jane Austen'' (1884) by Jane Austen.

* I ask you all to forgive me. I ask the people of Samford to forgive me. I ask my mother to forgive me. May you all live long and die happy. God save the King! God save the King! God be with you all! Send a wire to my mother and tell her I died happy, won't you. Yes tell her I died happy with no fear. Goodbye all! Goodbye all!
** Who: [[w:Ernest Austin (murderer)|Ernest Austin]]
*** Note: Austin made this statement before being hanged for rape and murder, the last two as he fell through the trap door. He was the last person in Queensland to be hanged.

* I love you.
** Who: [[w:Avicii|Avicii]], Swedish DJ and musician.
*** Note: Spoken to his girlfriend, Tereza Kacerova, the day that he committed suicide.

=B=
* مودند اى مردم اگر مرا ميشناختيد مثل اين جوان که ّ اجل از شماست در اين سبيل قربان ميشديد من آن ظهور موعودى هستم که آسمان کمتر مثل او را ديده سيصد و سيزده تن از نقباء خود را فداى من کردند اين (''Ay mardom, agar marâ mí-shenâkhtid mesl in javân keh ajal az shomâst dar in sabil ghorbāne mí-shodid man ân zohur maw'ūd hastam ke âsmân kamtar mesl u râ dide estad va sizah tan az nuqaba' khod râ fidā'iyy man kárdand in.'')
** Translation: Had you believed in Me, O wayward generation, every one of you would have followed the example of this youth, who stood in rank above most of you, and willingly would have sacrificed himself in My path. The day will come when you will have recognised Me; that day I shall have ceased to be with you.
** Who: [[The Báb]], founder of Bábism, and one of three central figures of the Bahá'í Faith.
*** Note: His final words were shouted at the spectating crowd during His execution by a firing squad. The words "this youth" refer to the young Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, who was being executed along with him.

* ''Weine nicht für mich, denn ich gehe dahin, wo Musik geboren wird.''
** Translation: Don't cry for me, for I go where music is born.
** Who: [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], German Baroque composer.
*** Note: Said to his wife on his deathbed.

* My name and memory I leave to man's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age.
** Who: [[Francis Bacon]], Renaissance scientist.

* Oh God, here I go!
** Who: [[w:Max Baer (boxer)|Max Baer]], American boxer.
*** Note: Spoken after a fatal heart attack.

* My Florida water.
** Who: [[Lucille Ball]], an American actress, comedian, model, film studio executive and producer.
*** Note: Her response when asked if she wanted anything. Ball's last ''written'' words, to [[w:Carol Burnett|Carol Burnett]] along with her annual birthday gift to her, were Happy birthday, kid. Love, Lucy. Burnett received the message and gift the day after Ball had died.

* Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.
** Who: [[w:Josephine Baker|Josephine Baker]], an American-born French dancer, jazz and pop music singer, and actress.
*** Note: The famed starlet was reportedly attempting to seduce a man several decades younger than she was. She died of a stroke later that night.

* I'm in the hands of Jesus...
** Who: [[w:Tammy Faye Messner|Tammy Faye Messner]], an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality.
*** Note: As told by her husband Roe Messner on CNN's Larry King Live. Roe was with Tammy Faye at the moment of her death.

* Codeine...bourbon...
** Who: [[Tallulah Bankhead]], an American actress of the stage and screen, and a reputed libertine.
*** Note: Her response when asked if she wanted anything.

* You know. Bill and I have working on Hanna-Barbera studios since many years ago. We've did cartoons such as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, the Flintstones and more. That was very perfect at all.
** Who: [[w:Joseph Barbera|Joseph Barbera]], American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist

* Stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor.
** Who: [[w:Sonny Barger|Sonny Barger]], founder of the Oakland Hells Angels motorcycle club, as part of a note he wrote to be released upon his death.

* I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
** Who: [[w:Alben W. Barkley|Alben W. Barkley]], former Vice President of the United States.
*** Note: He suffered a fatal heart attack in the middle of a speech. His last words were caught on tape.

* How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
** Who: [[P. T. Barnum]], circus entrepreneur.

* I can't sleep.
** Who: [[J.M. Barrie]], author of works including ''Peter Pan''.

* .توكلت على الله. توكلت على الله. توكلت على الله. توكلت على الله. توكلت على الله. توكلت على الله. توكلت على الله. توكلت على الله. توكلت على الله. توكلت على الله توكلت على الله. (''Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah. Tawakalt ala Allah.'')
** Translation: I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God.
** Who: [[w:Gameel Al-Batouti|Gameel Al-Batouti]], EgyptAir pilot
*** Note: Batouti continually repeated these words while at the controls of [[w:EgyptAir Flight 990|EgyptAir Flight 990]] moments before the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after leaving New York City for Cairo. The NTSB said that Batouti deliberately crashed the plane while Egyptian investigators said that mechanical failure caused the crash.

* Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
** Who: [[w:Ethel Barrymore|Ethel Barrymore]], an American actress regarded as the "First Lady of the American Theater."
*** Note: Spoken to her housekeeper before her passing.

* Die, I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
** Who: [[John Barrymore]], an American actor on stage, screen and radio.

* Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.
** Who: [[L. Frank Baum]], author of ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]].''
*** Note: Baum was referring to the Shifting Sands, the impassable desert surrounding the Land of Oz.

*Are you guys ready? Let's roll.
** Who: [[w:Todd Beamer|Todd Beamer]], passenger on United Flight 93, September 11, 2001.
*** Note: These are his last recorded words, coming at the end of a cell phone call before Beamer and others attempted to storm the airliner's cockpit to retake it from hijackers who were part of the [[w:September 11, 2001 attacks|9/11 terrorist attacks]]. The plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

*Rain had always been a harbinger of tragedy for me.
** Who: George Beard, an American neurologist who popularized the term neurasthenia.
*** Note: His death occurred during a rainstorm.

* ''Bonaparte...l'île d'Elbe...le roi de Rome.''
** Translation: [[w:Napoleon|Bonaparte]]... [[w:Elba|the island of Elba]]... the King of Rome.
** Who: [[w:Joséphine de Beauharnais|Joséphine de Beauharnais]], first wife of [[w:Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte]].

* ''Ich denke an frühere Zeiten.''
** Translation: I am thinking of earlier times.
**Who: [[w:Ludwig Beck|Ludwig Beck]], German general, committing suicide after the [[w:20 July plot|failed attempt]] to kill Hitler, 20 July 1944.

* [''To his murderers''] If all the swords in England were pointed against my head, your threats would not move me.
* I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
** Who: [[w:Thomas Becket|Thomas Becket]], Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 1170.

* Now comes the mystery.
** Who: [[Henry Ward Beecher]], evangelist, d. March 8, 1887.

* ''Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.''
** Translation: Applaud, my friends, the comedy is finished.; the formula traditionally used to end a performance of ''commedia dell'arte.''
** Who: [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], German composer.
*** Note: His final words are subject to historical debate, and vary with many biographies. Among those that have been reported to be his last words are:
***[''Upon the arrival from his publisher of 12 bottles of wine''] Pity, pity, too late!
***I shall hear in Heaven.
*** [''To his friend, composer [[w:Johann Nepomuk Hummel|Johann Nepomuk Hummel]], who was at his bedside''] Is it not true, Hummel, that I have some talent after all?
***I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.
***There, do you hear the bell? Don't you hear it ringing? The curtain must drop. Yes! My curtain is falling.
***[''To a priest, after he received his last rites''] I thank you, Reverend Sir. You have brought me comfort.
*** Another biographer states him saying nothing; simply shaking his fists defiantly at the heavens as a thunderstorm raged outside his window. This is taken from the report of composer [[w:Anselm Hüttenbrenner|Anselm Hüttenbrenner]], a close friend of Beethoven who was present at his death.

* ''Todo mortal...''
** Translation: ''All mortal...''
** Who: [[w:Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer|Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]], a Spanish post-romanticist poet and writer, also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing.
*** Note: He was delirious because of high fever and illness.

*''No.''
** Who: [[Alexander Graham Bell]], a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
*** Note: While Alexander Graham Bell was dying, his deaf wife whispered to him, "Don't leave me." Bell responded by signing the word, "No."

* I'd rather die watching football than in my bed with my boots off.
** Who: [[w:Bert Bell|Bert Bell]], founding owner of the Philadelphia Eagles football team and commissioner of the National Football League. Bell indeed died of a heart attack watching an Eagles game that day.

* Just don't leave me alone.
** Who: [[w:John Belushi|John Belushi]], an American comedian, actor, and musician.

*''The dogs are in the enclosed pool area. Garage side door is open.''
** Who: [[w:Chris Benoit|Chris Benoit]], a professional wrestler who worked for WWE.
*** Note: This was a text sent to fellow wrestler and longtime friend Chavo Guerrero after Benoit had murdered his wife and children and shortly before he hung himself.

* How did the [[w:New York Mets|Mets]] do today?
** Who: [[Moe Berg]], an American baseball catcher and World War II spy.
*** Note: The Mets won that day.

* My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael, my mother's name is Suzanne. I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah. I live in West Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
** Who: [[w:Nick Berg|Nick Berg]], American contractor
*** Note: Berg identifies himself at the beginning of a video posted on an Islamic website that ends with Berg being beheaded by terrorists in Iraq.

* And where do you come from?
** Who: [[w:Isaiah Berlin|Isaiah Berlin]], a Latvian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas.
*** Note: To the nurse caring for him. Hardy, Henry (2001). [http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/writings_on_ib/hhonib/legacy.html "Review of ''The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin''"]. The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

* ''Enfin, on va jouer ma musique.''
** Translation: At last, they are going to play my music.
** Who: [[Hector Berlioz]], French composer
*** Note: These words were reputedly his last, but other reports include him saying:
*** [''Bidding farewell to composer [[w:Mily Balakirev|Mily Balakirev]]''] One thousand greetings to Balakirev.
*** [''Speaking to his dead wife''] Oh, Mère Recio, it is finished.
*** [''Quoting from Macbeth's final soliloquy in Shakespeare's play of the same name'']: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." That is my signal.

* ''Jag behöver den.''
** Translation: I'll need it.
** Who: [[Folke Bernadotte|Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg]], Swedish diplomat and nobleman.
*** Note: In response as he drove away after he inspected a bullet in his vehicle's wheel and a newspaper man shouted "Good luck!"

* ''Cette fois il me servira pour le voyage d'où il n'y a pas de retour, le voyage de l'éternité.''
** Translation: This time it will serve me for the voyage from which there is no return, the voyage of eternity.
** Who: [[Claude Bernard]], a French physiologist.
*** Note: Spoken when he began to feel cold and a cover was placed on his feet.

* Never fear; if you will but have patience I don't doubt we shall get through; but take care how you ever get in such a scrape again.
** Who: [[Francis Bernard|Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet]], a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the provinces of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay.

* Don't die like I did.
* Bestie, you've got to help me. They're having a fucking party in here. I heard them last night, Bestie. They were having drinks and there were girls.
** Who: [[George Best|George Best,]] a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger for Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team.
*** Note: Best died as a result of a lung infection and multiple organ failure caused by years of alcoholism. The first line was published in ''News of the World'' with a picture of Best lying in his hospital bed, five days before his death. The second line, heard by his son Calum, came during after the beeping machines in his ward sent him hallucinating that he was at a club.

* Dear God. Dear God. Why is this happening? I just want to go home.
** Who: [[w:Cassie Bernall|Cassie Bernall]], victim of the [[w:Columbine High School massacre |Columbine High School massacre]].
*** Note: According to Emily Wyant, a close friend of Cassie's, she was heard praying in these last words before Eric Harris yelled "Peek-a-boo!" and fatally shot her in the face. This account disproves the myth that Bernall said "yes" to Dylan Klebold before he shot her dead (it was actually Valeen Schnurr who got terribly shot ''before'' being asked by Klebold if she believed in God and surviving the whole ordeal). [http://www.salon.com/1999/09/30/bernall/]

* ''Combien lent est mon agonie.''
** Translation: How slow my death agony is.
** Who: [[Sarah Bernhardt|Sarah Bernhardt]], a French stage and early film actress.

* اے رب، میری مدد کریں ... کیونکہ میں معصوم ہوں. (''Ae rab, meri madad karen...kyunkay mein masoom hon.'')
** Translation: O Lord, help me... for I am innocent.
** Who: [[w:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto|Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], Prime Minister of Pakistan.
*** Note: Said shortly before his hanging.

* ''Dêem-me café, vou escrever!''
** Translation: Give me coffee, I'm going to write.
** Who: [[w:Olavo Bilac|Olavo Bilac]], Brazilian poet.

* I will love you forever.
** Who: [[w:Bushwick Bill|Bushwick Bill]], American rapper
*** Note: Spoken to his son on his deathbed.

* ''¿Quién es? ¿Quién es?''
** Translation: Who is it? Who is it?
** Who: [[Billy the Kid|Billy the Kid]], an American Old West gunfighter who participated in New Mexico's Lincoln County War.
***Note: When Billy saw sheriff [[w:Pat Garrett|Pat Garrett]], he failed to recognize him due to the poor lighting. Garrett then shot him to death.

* لا تضيء الضوء! (''la tudi' alduwa!'')
** Translation: Don't turn on the light.
** Who: [[Osama bin Laden]], founder of [[Al-Qaeda]].

*I'm sorry from the bottom of my heart. I want to thank all of my family and friends for my prayers and who supported and believed in me. My Father, I'm being paroled to heaven. I will now spend all my holidays with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Peace be with you all. Amen.
** Who: [[w:Kenneth Biros|Kenneth Biros]], first person executed by a one-drug lethal injection in Ohio on December 8, 2009.

* ''Haus.''
** Translation: Home.; Literally: House.
**Who: [[Otto von Bismarck|Otto von Bismarck,]] German statesman and Chancellor of Germany.
*** Note: Scrawled on a piece of paper; there is debate as to whether Bismarck meant to convey that he was returning to the afterlife or was simply delirious or intoxicated.

* ''À moi!''
** Translation: Help!; Literally: To me!
** Who: [[w:Sophie Blanchard|Sophie Blanchard]], a French aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer [[w:Jean-Pierre Blanchard |Jean-Pierre Blanchard]].
*** Note: Blanchard, a balloonist, said these words when her balloon crashed, killing her.

* I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies!<ref name="NYTimes1951-06-18">
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| work = Time
| title = Germany: Case Closed
| date = 18 June 1951
| url = http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,814963,00.html
}}
</ref>
** Who: [[w:Paul Blobel|Paul Blobel]], a German SS officer
*** Note: Blobel said these words before his execution.

* Goodbye, kid. Hurry back.
** Who: [[Humphrey Bogart]], an American screen actor who performed in iconic 1940s films noir such as ''The Maltese Falcon'', ''Casablanca'', and ''The Big Sleep.''
*** Note: The line was spoken to his wife, Lauren Bacall, as she left his bedside to pick up her children. She returned to find Bogart in a coma, from which he never regained consciousness.

* ''À Jésus-Christ je recommande mon âme! Jésus recevez mon âme! Jésus recevez mon âme! Jésus recevez–''
** Translation: To Jesus Christ I commend my soul. Jesus have pity on me. Jesus have pity on me. Jesus have pity–
** Who: [[Anne Boleyn]]

* Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
** Who: [[Simon Bolivar]], a Venezuelan military and political leader.
*** Note: His last words are also recorded as "Fetch The Luggage, They do not want us here"

* ''France, armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine.''
** Translation: ''France, Army, Head of the Army, Joséphine.''
** Who: [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. He died in exile in Saint Helena on 5 May 1821.

* و مع الإسلام... (''Wa mael'iislam...'')
** Translation: And of Islam...
** Who: [[w:Mohamed Boudiaf|Mohamed Boudiaf]], President of Algeria.
*** Note: In 1992, he was conducting a televised speech in Arabic to an audience at a newly-opened cultural centre in Annaba, when his assassin struck. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4OilxPboM]

* ''Ah, das schmeckt gut. Vielen Dank.''
** Translation: Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
** Who: [[w:Johannes Brahms|Johannes Brahms]], a German composer and pianist.
*** Note: Spoken after he had a small glass of wine.

* ''Surgite!''
** Translation: Push on!
** Who: [[w:Isaac Brock|General Sir Isaac Brock]], British Army officer and administrator.
*** Note: Said after being shot by American sharpshooters during the [[w:Battle of Queenston Heights|Battle Of Queenston Heights]].

* Tell my mother I died for my country...Useless... useless...
** Who: [[w:John Wilkes Booth|John Wilkes Booth]], American stage actor and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
*** Note: He said these words as he laid mortally wounded after being shot during a manhunt three hours earlier.

* كيف تتوقع مني أن أعيش؟ (''Kayf tatawaqae miniy 'an 'aeish?'')
** Translation: How do you expect me to make a living?
** Who: [[w:Mohamed Bouazizi|Mohamed Bouazizi]], Tunisian street vendor.
*** Note: Bouazizi set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, in response to the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation that he said was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides. At 11:30 AM local time, he shouted these words while standing in the middle of traffic, then doused himself with gasoline and set himself alight with a match. He later died at the Ben Arous Burn and Trauma Centre on 4 January 2011. This act of self-immolation became a catalyst for the [[w:Tunisian Revolution|Tunisian Revolution]], and eventually the wider [[w:Arab Spring|Arab Spring]].

* ''Je vais ou je vas mourir, l'un et l'autre se dit ou se disent.''
** Translation : I am about to – or I am going to – die: either expression is correct.
** Who: [[w:Dominique Bouhours|Dominique Bouhours]], French grammarian.

* He's got several units of Phoenix police on his tail right here and, uh, Jim, stay with him, looks like he's gonna try and take another vehicle here. We'll see if they block him in there. Looks like they've got him blocked in there, but he did get h-
** Who: Scott Bowerbank, pilot for KTVK's Newschopper3 involved in the [[w:Phoenix news helicopter collision|Phoenix mid-air collision]]
** Note: While covering a police chase, Bowerbank's chopper was struck by KNXV-TV's Chopper15. Both choppers crashed to the ground, killing all four occupants on both aircraft.

* Music has been my doorway of perception and the house that I live in.
** Who: [[David Bowie]], English rock musician.

* I don't feel well. I don't think we should go on.
** Who: [[w:Stephen Boyd|Stephen Boyd]], actor
*** Note: Boyd was playing golf with his wife when he suffered a massive heart attack that took his life.

* I didn't murder the Hodges family. I've never murdered anybody. I'm going to my death with a clear conscience. I am going to my death having had a great life because of my two great sons, Mike and Doug.
** Who: [[w:Earl Bramblett|Earl Bramblett]]
*** Note: Spoken prior to his death in the state of Virginia's electric chair. Contrary to his claim, overwhelming evidence proved that he did indeed kill William Hodges, his wife Teresa and their two children Winter and Anah, ages 11 and 4.

* But all the same, long live France!
** Who: [[w:Robert Brasillach|Robert Brasillach]], author

* No. I have no final statement.
** Who: Lawrence Russell Brewer
*** Note: Executed for the murder of [[w:Murder of James Byrd, Jr.|James Byrd, Jr.]]

* Sarah I miss and need you.
** Who: [[w:Bobbi Kristina Brown|Bobbi Kristina Brown]], an American reality television and media personality, singer, and actress.
*** Note: Last known tweet to her friend Bess Beckmann before she went into a coma and died months later.

* C'mon, let's get this day over and done with.
** Who: [[w:Peter Brock|Peter Brock]], Australian motor racing driver.
*** Note: Said to a track marshal before being killed instantly when he crashed into a tree at the Targa West rally. Brock's ex-wife believes that this comment showed that he should not have been racing.

* I'm going away tonight.
** Who: [[James Brown]], American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist.
** Source: Charles Bobbit, Brown's longtime personal manager and friend.
*** Note: James Brown uttered his last words minutes before his death, and then he took three, long quiet breaths and closed his eyes.
** His very last words were: "I want you to look after my wife... and little man. I'm on fire. I'm burning up. Burning up.", as quoted in [http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2013-01/03/james-brown-fortune-lawsuits-death-drugs/viewall Icon: James Brown], ''GQ Magazine'', 3 January 2013.

* I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
** Who: [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]], an American abolitionist.
*** Note: These words were not spoken, but written on a note and handed to a guard right before his execution.
** His spoken last words are usually considered to be: This is a beautiful country.

* Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother 💪🏾 #33644
** Who: [[Kobe Bryant]], American basketball player
*** Note: Those were Bryant's final public words, sent as a Tweet congratulating [[LeBron James]] for surpassing him for third place among the National Basketball Association's all-time leading scorers on January 25, 2020. The following day, Bryant and four other people were killed in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles.

* Oh, Lord, God Almighty, as thou wilt!
** Who: [[James Buchanan]], 15th President of the United States.

* I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends.
** Who: [[Ted Bundy]], an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls.
*** Note: Those were Bundy's last words before being executed in the electric chair.

* I'm the problem.
** Who: David A. Burke
*** Note: Burke replied to the captain of [[w:Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771|Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771]], who inquired what "the problem" was after Burke fired a gun in the cabin of the plane. Burke shot the pilots and himself, deliberately crashing the flight.

* On that subject I am coy.
** Who: [[Aaron Burr]], 3rd Vice President of the United States.
*** His last words were a response to the efforts of his friend, Reverend P.J. Van Pelt, to get Burr to state that there was a God. Reported in Holmes Moss Alexander, ''Aaron Burr: The Proud Pretender‎'' (1937), p. 356.

* Back in no time.
** Who: [[William S. Burroughs]], American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer.
*** Note: Spoken to a friend as he was being loaded into an ambulance after suffering a heart attack; he was comatose upon arrival at the hospital and never regained consciousness. Reported in Barry Miles, ''Call Me Burroughs: A Life'' (2014).

* I love you, too.
** Who: [[George H. W. Bush]], American politician, 41st president of the United States
*** Note: Spoken to his eldest son, [[George W. Bush]], via speakerphone, before his death.

* The corruption of the state shall fall. Governor Taft, you will not be re-elected. The rest of you, you know where you can go.
** Who: [[w:John William Byrd, Jr.|John William Byrd, Jr.]]
*** Note: Byrd told his family he loved them and that they should keep fighting the death penalty. [http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/byrd760.htm]

* Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
** Who: [[Lord Byron]], British poet.

* I went the distance.
** Who: [[w:Steve Byrnes|Steve Byrnes]], an American television announcer and producer.
*** Note: Final words sent from a tweet.

* من قبل رب الكعبة، لقد كنت ناجحة. (''Min qibal rabi alkaebati, laqad kunt najihatan.'')
** Translation: By the Lord of the Ka'bah, I have been successful.
** Who: [[Ali ibn Abi Talib]], cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, ruling over the Islamic caliphate from 656 to 661.
*** Note: This was spoken after being hit on the head with a poisoned sword, while leading the Morning Prayer, by Ibn Maljam, a fundamentalist.

=C=
* Damn, hang on Ronnie!
** Who: James Caddell
*** Note: Referring to passenger Ronald Wilmond, after his Cessna L-19 stalled and plummeted into a forest near Tabernash, Colorado, in 1984. The crash site remained undiscovered until 1987, when it was found by backpackers. Footage of the crash had been captured on the Cessna's mounted VHS camcorder, the tape of which was recovered and repaired by a sheriff. The footage, secured by the FAA, was kept from the public at the Caddell family's request and was shown only to flight instructors. After the expiry of the moratorium, the footage became public and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhZy12jVfCw was later uploaded to YouTube].

* Καὶ σύ, τέκνον; (''Kaì sú, téknon?'')
** Translation: You too, my child?
** Who: [[Julius Caesar]]
*** Note: ''Et tu, Brute?'' (often translated as "and you, Brutus?") is attributed to him by Shakespeare's famous play; his last words according to claims reported by [[Suetonius]], were ''καὶ σύ, τέκνον;'' (pronounced "Kaì sú, téknon?") which means "You too, my child?" in Greek, though his native tongue was Latin [De Vita Caesarum Liber I Divus Iulius, LXXXII]). Suetonius himself, however, actually discounts these claims, and asserts that Caesar ''said nothing'' as he died, apart from a groan. His definite last words according to Suetonius were instead, "''Ista, quidem vis est!''" (Why, this is violence!).

* ''Vivo!''
** Translation: I live!
** Who: [[Caligula]] (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus), Roman Emperor, as he was being assassinated by his own soldiers (as reported by Roman historian [[w:Tacitus |Tacitus]]).

* I can't see anything. I've got the bows up... I'm going! Uh–
** Who: [[w:Donald Campbell|Donald Campbell]], British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records.
** Context: Final radio transmission from Bluebird K7 as she lifted from the surface of Conniston Water, flipped bow over stern and smashed to pieces on the lake surface in January 1967. Campbell was attempting to set a new world water speed record exceeding 300mph. His first run was 297mph. The crash occurred on the return run. Had he completed it, it would have been fast enough to set a record exceeding 300mph.

* This is not the end of me.
** Who: [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman]], Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* ''Bei letzter Vernehmung Nase gebrochen. Meine Zeit ist um. War kein Landesverräter. Habe als Deutscher meine Pflicht getan. Sollten Sie weiterleben, grüßen Sie meine Frau.''
**Translation: Badly mishandled. Nose broken at last interrogation. My time is up. Was not a traitor. Did my duty as a German. If you survive, please give my regards to my wife.
** Who: [[Wilhelm Canaris]], member of the [[w:July 20 plot|July 20 plot]], his last note before execution to the man in the cell next to him.
*** Last words also reported as "''Ich sterbe für mein Vaterland, ich habe ein reines Gewissen.''" – "I am dying for my Fatherland. I have a clear conscience."

*It's me, it's Buddy... I'm cold.
** Who: [[Truman Capote]], writer.
*** Note: 'Buddy' was Capote's aunt's nickname for him.

*26th October last year, not 10 meters from where these men are now entombed, you had a 400-tonne rock fall. Why is it, is it the strength of the seam, or the wealth of the seam, that you continue to send men into work in such a dangerous environment?
** Who: [[w:Richard Carleton|Richard Carleton]], reporter for [[w:Nine News|National Nine News]].
*** Note: During a media conference that was held at [[w:Beaconsfield, Tasmania|Beaconsfield, Tasmania]] on 7 May 2006, Richard Carleton asked this question to Matthew Gill (mine manager of the Beaconsfield mine), in light of the [[w:Beaconsfield mine collapse|Beaconsfield mine collapse]]. When Gill declined to answer the question, Carleton walked away and suffered a heart attack; he was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.

*So, this is death. Well!
** Who: [[Thomas Carlyle]], Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher.

* I hope so.
** Who: [[w:Andrew Carnegie|Andrew Carnegie]], steel magnate and philanthropist.
*** Note: Spoken to his wife whom had bid him goodnight.

* Milan: What a beautiful place to die.
** Who: [[w:John Carradine|John Carradine]], an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns and Shakespearean theatre.
*** Note: He died from multiple organ failure at Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Milan, Italy at age 82. Hours before he was stricken, he had climbed the 328 steep steps of Milan's Gothic cathedral, the Duomo.

* ''¡No abandonéis a mis indios!''
** Translation: Don't abandon my Indians!
** Who: [[w:Felipe Carrillo Puerto|Felipe Carrillo Puerto]], Mexican revolutionary, governor of Yucatán (executed)

* Take away these pillows, I won't need them any longer.
** Who: [[w:Lewis Carroll|Lewis Carroll]], English author and poet best known as the author of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.''
** Quoted in [[Stuart Dodgson Collingwood]], ''The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll'' (1898), pp.347-8

* I just wish I had time for one more bowl of chili.
** Who: [[w:Kit Carson|Kit Carson]], American frontiersman.
*** Note: His final words have also been reported as "Adios, compadres."

* I think I'll sleep now.
** Who: [[George Washington Carver]], an American botanist and inventor.

* ''Ho vissuto come filosofo, e morto come cristiano.''
** Translation: I have lived as a philosopher, and die as a Christian.
** Who: [[Giacomo Casanova]], an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

* I hear the train a-comin.
** Who: [[Johnny Cash]], American country music singer.

* So much wasted time.
** Who: [[w:David Cassidy|David Cassidy]], an American actor and singer known for ''[[The Partridge Family]]''.

* We got a bad fire! Let's get out - we're burning up...
** Who: An [[w:Apollo 1|Apollo 1]] astronaut, probably [[w:Roger Chaffee|Roger Chaffee]]. All three crew members perished in a launchpad fire, 1967.

* ''Vous voyez, c'est comme ça que vous mourez.''
** Translation: You see, this is how you die.
** Who: [[Coco Chanel]], French fashion designer of women's clothes and founder of the [[w:Chanel|Chanel]] brand.

* Approaching dissolution brings relief.
** Who: [[Neville Chamberlain]], British prime minister.

* Hello.
** Who: [[w:Graham Chapman|Graham Chapman]], comedian of [[Monty Python]] fame.
*** Note: Spoken to his adopted son who had just arrived at the hospital.

* Tell [Carl] Mays I'm okay.
** Who: Cleveland Indians' baseball player [[w:Ray Chapman|Ray Chapman]].
*** Note: Chapman had been accidentally hit in the head by a pitch from Carl Mays, and died from complications of a skull fracture (1920). This was thirty-two years before batting helmets were first worn (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1952), and fifty years before Major League Baseball had made them mandatory (1970). To this day, Chapman is the only Major League Baseball player ever to die as a direct result of injuries sustained during a game.

* ''In thine hendi, bevelhi ik minin geist.''
** Translation: Into Thy hands, I commend my spirit.
** Who: [[Charlemagne]]

* I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world. Remember!
** Who: [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], King of England, on the executioner's block, 30 January 1649.

* You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.
** Who: [[Charles II of England|Charles II]], son of the above, 1685.

* ''Quel meurtre! Quel sang! J'ai mal agi... Dieu, pardonne-moi!''
** Translation: What murder! What bloodshed! I have done wrong... Oh God, forgive me.
** Who: [[w:Charles IX of France|Charles IX of France]]
*** Note: Referring to his massively violent suppression of the [[w:Huguenots|Huguenot Protestants]] during his reign.

* ''Var inte rädd!''
** Translation: Do not be afraid!
** Who: [[w:Charles XII of Sweden|Charles XII of Sweden]].

* ''Ay Jesus.''
** Who: [[Charles V]], Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and King of Spain , d. 1558.

* Why not? After all, it belongs to him.
** Who: Comedian [[Charlie Chaplin]], d. 1977, said this after a priest was reading him his last rites and said "May the lord have mercy on your soul".

* ''Yo no quiero morir, por favor no me dejen morir.''
** Translation: I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.
** Who: [[Hugo Chávez]], President of Venezuela.
*** Note: Due to a severe respiratory infection, he was unable to speak for several days before his death. According to Venezuelan general Jose Ornella, he mouthed these words before suffering a massive heart attack and dying.

* Διδόναι ἄκρατον ἐπιρροφῆσαι τῷ ὄνῳ! (''Didónai ákraton epirrofísai tó óno'')
*** Translation: Now give the ass a drink of pure wine!
*** Who: [[Chrysippus]], Stoic philosopher
**** Note: Chrysippus was drunk off undiluted wine when he spied a donkey eating wild figs. He then shouted this humorous command at an old woman, laughed heartily, and died. Other sources simply claim he drank the undiluted wine and died because of it.

* У меня не было шампанского в течение долгого времени. (''U menya ne bylo shampanskogo v techeniye dolgogo vremeni.'')
** Translation: I haven't had champagne for a long time.
** Who: [[Anton Chekhov]], playwright, 1904.
*** Note: His doctor had given him champagne after all other attempts to ease the symptoms of death from tuberculosis failed.

* Take a step forward lads - it'll be easier that way.
** Who: [[w:Robert Erskine Childers|Robert Erskine Childers]], last words, to his firing squad, Irish Civil War, 1922.

* ''Gdy ta ziemia mnie udusi, błagam cię, abyś otworzył moje ciało, abym nie został pogrzebany żywcem.''
** Translation: As this earth will suffocate me, I implore you to have my body opened so that I will not be buried alive.
* ''Nigdy więcej.''
** Translation: Not any more.
* ''Zagraj w Mozarta na moją pamiątkę, a ja cię usłyszę.''
** Translation: Play Mozart in memory of me—and I will hear you.
** Who: [[Frederic Chopin]], Polish composer and pianist.
*** Note: He had a neurotic fear of being buried alive.
** The first quote was written on a note some hours before his death.
** The second quote was spoken to his physician when asked if he was suffering greatly; he died about two hours later.
** The third quote is what Chopin reportedly murmured on his death-bed (''The opera reader'', Biancolli, 1953, p. 271).

* In keeping with the WXLT practice of presenting the most immediate and complete reports of local blood and guts news, TV-40 presents what is believed to be a television first: in living color, exclusive coverage of an attempted suicide.
** Who: [[Christine Chubbuck]], 30-year-old anchorwoman who, on July 15, 1974, during technical difficulties during a broadcast on [[w:WWSB|WXLT-TV]] in [[w:Sarasota, Florida|Sarasota, Florida]], said these words on-air before producing a revolver and shooting herself in the head (While she drew the gun on camera, the technicians quickly cut the video feed, but the gunshot could be clearly heard). She was pronounced dead in hospital fourteen hours later. Reported in Kristine Bertini, ''Understanding and Preventing Suicide: The Development of of Self-Destructive Patterns and Ways to Alter Them'' (2009), p. 134 (under the mistaken surname, Hubbock).
*** Note: This quote is taken from the transcript of the tape obtained by the [https://archive.org/details/sixty90_protonmail_CC/page/n17/mode/2up Sarasota County Sheriff's Department.] Though its legitimacy is unconfirmed, audio featuring an uncanny resemblance of Chubbuck's voice reading the transcript was [https://archive.org/details/audio-of-christine-chubbucks-suncoast-digest-07-15-1974 leaked online in April of 2021.]

* I'm so bored with it all.
** Who: [[Winston Churchill]], a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
*** Note: This was spoken before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.

* ''Nihil propriis quid facis, latro, autem non tentant recte ut interficias me.''
** Translation: There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.
** Who: [[Cicero]], Roman statesman and orator.
*** Note: These words are directed at Herennius, his assassin by order of Marc Antony, triumvir and co-ruler of Rome. Herennius was a centurion.

* So remember, just when you think all the sounds of dogs barking, people mowing their lawns and children screaming are driving you mad, they may just be keeping you sane!
** Who: [[Dick Clark]], American radio and television personality.
*** Note: From a blog post nine days before his death. While not his last spoken words (Clark had difficulty speaking due to a stroke he experienced seven years prior), they were the last words he made to the public.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120422000616/http://dickclarkonline.com/Dick-Clark-Blog--inside-page-/4313937]

*Thomas, I am dying. Telegraph Mr. Harrison.
** Who: [[w:Henry Clay|Henry Clay]], an American lawyer and planter, politician, and skilled orator.
*** Note: Spoken to his son. Mr. Harrison appears to be J.O. Harrison, Clay's executor. (Source: "The Century Magazine", vol. 33).

* Τόσο εδώ! (''Tóso edó!'')
** Translation: So here it is!
** Who: [[w:Cleopatra|Cleopatra VII Philopator]], the last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt.
*** Note: "It" was the small asp which she allowed to bite her.
** Historians dispute the cause of her death. Many believe it was not an asp that she used to commit suicide, but rather some makeshift poison. (Source: Stacy Schiff's ''Cleopatra: A Life'')

* I have tried so hard to do right.
** Who: [[Grover Cleveland]], 22nd and 24th President of the United States.

* Absolutely not!
** Who: [[w:Montgomery Clift|Montgomery Clift]], actor.
*** Note: His private nurse, Lorenzo James, asked him if he wanted to watch the movie ''[[w:The Misfits (film)|The Misfits]]'' (in which he appeared) on TV.

* Thank God. I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.
** Who: [[w:Del Close|Del Close]], improviser, teacher and comedian, d. 1999.

* ...it's better to burn out than to fade away.
** Who: [[Kurt Cobain]], an American musician who was best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter for [[w:Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]
*** Note: Cobain was quoting [[Neil Young]] lyrics when he wrote this line in his suicide note.  The full context of the note is available [http://kurtcobainssuicidenote.com/kurt_cobains_suicide_note_scan.html online].

* ''Depuis le jour de ma naissance, ma mort a commencé sa marche. Il marche vers moi, sans se presser.''
** Translation: Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towards me, without hurrying.
** Who: [[Jean Cocteau]], French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

* I love you all.
** Who: [[w:Natalie Cole|Natalie Cole]], an American singer-songwriter, and actress.
*** Note: Spoken to her younger twin sisters.

* I love you and my head hurts.
** Who: [[w:Gary Coleman|Gary Coleman]], an American actor, voice artist, and comedian.

* Five Zulu Alpha just had a midair. Both planes are going down in the, ah, one mile to the, ah, two miles to the west of the power plant
** Who: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Collins_(broadcaster) Bob Collins], Chicago Morning DJ.
*** Note: On 8 February 2000, Collins was piloting a light aircraft into Waukegan, Illinois when his aircraft suffered a mid-air collision with another aircraft due to pilot error by Collins. Collins reported the mid-air collision before the aircraft crashed, killing both him and his passenger. The other aircraft also crashed, killing the pilot aboard.

* Can you get a shot of this gun?
** Who: [[w:Harry Collinson|Harry Collinson]], Chief Planning Officer for Derwentside District Council.
*** Note: On 20 June 1991, Collinson was supervising the demolition of a bungalow that had been built by Albert Dryden without planning permission. After a BBC camera crew arrived, Dryden produced an unlicensed pistol, and Collinson invited the crew to focus on it. Several seconds later, Dryden opened fire, killing Collinson and injuring BBC reporter Tony Belmont and PC Stephen Campbell; the Council's solicitor, Mike Newell, was shot at four times but not injured. Dryden was subsequently arrested after a stand-off and was found guilty by a jury of murder and three counts of attempted murder, being sentenced to life imprisonment with a tariff of 13 years.

* Heaven has turned against me. No wise ruler arises, and no one in the Empire wishes to make me his teacher. The hour of my death has come.
** Who: [[Confucius]], Chinese philosopher and politician

* More weight.
* I curse you Corwin and all of Salem!
** Who: [[w:Giles Corey|Giles Corey]], while being crushed during the Salem witch trials because he would not answer the court.
*** Note: The first line was said while being crushed during the Salem Witch Trials for refusing to answer the court. After long hours of pain, Corey then uttered the second quote and died.

* Lady, you shot me!
** Who: [[Sam Cooke]], lethally wounded after being shot at the Hacienda Motel (now the Star motel).

* Good morning, Robert.
** Who: [[Calvin Coolidge]], 30th President of the United States, to a carpenter working on his home.
** Coolidge is also said to have been quoted near his death: "I feel I no longer fit in with these times." Coolidge, a staunch fiscal conservative and small-government federalist, was at odds with incoming President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], whose New Deal marked a major expansion of the federal budget.

* I am guilty. My sentence is just: I deserve my fate. And may God have mercy on my soul.
** Who: [[w:Red Barn Murder|William Corder]], moments before he was hanged on August 11, 1828, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn.

* I love you.
* I'm just tired.
** Who: [[Chris Cornell]], an American musician and lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave.
*** Note: The first line was the last thing Cornell said to his fans after performing his last song with Soundgarden at a concert. Within 60 minutes later, he was on the phone with his wife, slurring his words and repeatedly saying the second line before hanging up. He committed suicide by hanging shortly after.

*Hello. We're looking in... we're overlooking the Financial Center. Three of us. Two broken windows. OH, GOD! OH-
** Who: [[w:Kevin Cosgrove|Kevin Cosgrove]], a victim of the [[September 11 attacks]]. He was connected to a 9-1-1 dispatcher, and he said the above phrase when the South Tower collapsed after it'd been hit by one of the airplanes used in the attacks.

* That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.
* I think I'll be more comfortable.
** Who: [[w:Lou Costello|Lou Costello]], American actor and comedian.
*** Note: Reports vary as to whether his last words were the former to visitors upon finishing an ice-cream soda, or the latter to his nurse after asking to be moved onto his side.

*Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
** Who: [[Noel Coward]], playwright. Died of natural causes.

* No, my pain is too much, Fazila.
* I can't make it, I'm in too much pain.
** Who: [[Jo Cox]], British Labour Party politician
*** Note: Either one was spoken to her assistant, Fazila Aswat, after she tried to encourage Cox to stand after an attack. She later died of her injuries.

*It don't matter; I figure I licked the Rock anyway.
** Who: [[w:Bernard Coy|Bernard Coy]], convicted criminal, shot while trying to escape Alcatraz prison (known as "The Rock")

* Goodbye, everybody.
** [[Hart Crane]], spoken as he committed suicide by jumping from a cruise ship. Reported in Kristine Bertini, ''Understanding and Preventing Suicide: The Development of of Self-Destructive Patterns and Ways to Alter Them'' (2009), p. 134.

* Dammit, don't you dare ask God to help me!
** Who: [[w:Joan Crawford|Joan Crawford]].
*** Note: This comment was directed towards her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.

* That was a great game of golf, fellas. Let's get a Coke.
** Who: [[w:Bing Crosby|Bing Crosby]], American singer and actor.
*** Note: He was playing the whole 18 holes of golf, even when his doctor said to only do nine. 20 minutes after the game, he suffered a fatal heart attack when heading back to the clubhouse.

* What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
** Who: [[Crowfoot]], chief of the Siksika First Nation.

* I am confound.
* (also quoted as I am perplexed.)
** Who: [[Aleister Crowley]]. British occultist, mystic, poet, mountain climber.
** This is open to debate, because some sources report Crowley dying alone, and others claim that he said Sometimes I hate myself. [http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/aleister_crowley.html] [http://paranormalstories.blogspot.com/2007/06/aleister-crowley-part-ii.html]

* You sons of bitches, give my love to Mother!
** Who: [[w:Francis Crowley|Francis "Two Gun" Crowley]], an American murderer and career criminal.

* It's not real.
** Who: [[w:Shooting of John Crawford III|John Crawford III]]
** Note: Spoken regarding a toy gun he was holding, in the toy section of a Wal-Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio.

* ''Je ne le veux pas.''
** Translation: I don't want it.
** Who: [[w:Marie Curie|Marie Curie]], Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist.
*** Note: She had been offered an injection to ease her pain.

* Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah! [''Attributed'']
* We've caught them napping! [''Attributed'']
** Who: [[w:George Armstrong Custer|George Armstrong Custer]], a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War.

* I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime. [''Through clenched teeth'']: I am sorry I could not see my father.
** Who: [[w:Leon Frank Czolgosz|Leon Czolgosz]], American anarchist and assassin of President William McKinley.
*** Note: He said the second line as he was being strapped on the electric chair.

=D=

* Remember, my brain goes to Boston. Straight to Boston.
** Who: [[w:Daffney|Daffney]], professional wrestler and actress.
*** Note: Said in a live video on Instagram, reading a suicide note while holding what appeared to be a pistol, referring to the chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) testing center on the campus of Boston University. The following day, Daffney's death was announced; an investigation determined she had shot herself in the chest.

* You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I'll miss you all so much... Ow, fuck!
** Who: [[Roald Dahl]], Welsh novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.
*** Note: First line said to his family. He then appeared to have lost consciousness, and the nurse decided to inject him with a lethal dose of morphine to ease his passing. After she did, Dahl said the second line right before dying.

* I don't care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.
** Who: [[Jeffrey Dahmer]], serial killer.
*** Note: According to fellow prisoner [[Christopher Scarver]], who admitted to beating Dahmer to death with a "preacher bar" (part of a weight machine), these were his last words.

* ''{{lang|ca|On és el meu rellotge?}}''
** Translation: Where is my clock?
** Who: [[Salvador Dalí]], a prominent Spanish surrealist painter

* If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half.
** Who: [[Rodney Dangerfield]], American comedian.
*** In response to how long he would be hospitalized.

* One last drink, please.
** Who: [[w:Jack Daniel|Jack Daniel]], an American distiller and businessman, the founder of the Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.

* ''Mon seul regret est que je parte devant ce rat, Robespierre! N'oublie pas de montrer ma tête aux gens; ça vaut le coup d'être vu.''
** Translation: My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! ''[to his executioner]'' Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.
** Who: [[Georges Danton]], a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. The last line is a humorous comment on his famous ugliness.

* I am not the least afraid to die.
** Who: [[Charles Darwin]], an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.

* ואיש יגע בהם ימלא ברזל ועץ חנית ובאש שרוף ישרפו בשבת (''Ve'ish yigga bahem, yimmalei varzel ve'etz chanit; uva'esh sarof yissarefu bashavet'')
** Translation: But the man who touches them (the worthless) must be armed with iron, and the shaft of a spear, and with fire they shall be utterly burned in their place!
** Who: [[w:David|David]], third king of the [[w:United Monarchy|United Monarchy of Israel]]

* Well, first of all I'd like to address the MacPhail family. I'd like to let you all know, despite the situation -- I know all of you are still convinced that I'm the person that killed your father, your son and your brother, but I am innocent. The incident that happened that night was not my fault. I did not have a gun that night. I did not shoot your family member. But I am so sorry for your loss. I really am -- sincerely. All I can ask is that each of you look deeper into this case, so that you really will finally see the truth. I ask my family and friends that you all continue to pray, that you all continue to forgive. Continue to fight this fight. For those about to take my life, may God have mercy on all of your souls. God bless you all.
** Who: [[w:Troy Davis|Troy Anthony Davis]], high-profile death row inmate.
*** Notes: Davis was executed by lethal injection in Georgia on September 21, 2011 for the murder of Officer Mark Allen MacPhail, despite serious doubts about his guilt that lingered on prior to his death.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/troy-davis-execution-last-words_n_1000648.html]

*It's good to be king. Wait, maybe. I think maybe I'm just like a little bizarre little person who walks back and forth. Whatever, you know.
** Who: [[w:Terry A. Davis|Terry A. Davis]], programmer, creator of [[w:TempleOS|TempleOS]].
*** Note: Words were spoken on his last video before being struck and killed by a Union Pacific train.

* That guy's got to stop... He'll see us.
** Who: [[w:James Dean|James Dean]], American actor.
*** Note: Words said before dying in a car accident.

* Miss, I got what I really went for.
** Who: [[w:Jeremy Wade Delle|Jeremy Wade Delle]]
*** Note: After this troubled teenager left his Texas classroom under the pretenses of obtaining a late pass, he returned with a gun, uttered these words, and committed suicide in front of his classmates. The incident was later immortalized in the Pearl Jam song [[w:Jeremy (song)|"Jeremy."]]

* ''[[w:Demetris Christofias|Hıristofyaaas]]!!! Burası bağımsız bir cumhuriyettir!!!''
** Translation: [[w:Demetris Christofias|Christofiaaass]]!! Here is an independent republic!!!
*** Who: [[w:Rauf Denktaş|Rauf Denktaş]], founder of the [[w:Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus|Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus]]

* Do you have it now?
** Who: [[w:John Denver|John Denver]]
*** Note: Spoken via cockpit radio after transmitting a four digit code. On October 12, 1997, Denver was killed when his Experimental [[w:Rutan Long-EZ|Rutan Long-EZ]] plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Pacific Grove, California.

*On the ground!
** Who: [[Charles Dickens]]
*** Note: He suffered a stroke on a walk near his home, and asked to be laid down on the ground.

* ''Mais comment le diable pensez-vous que cela pourrait me faire du mal?''
** Translation: But how the devil do you think this could harm me?
** Who: [[Denis Diderot]], French encyclopedist, upon being warned by his wife not to eat too much.

* Little Cousins, Called back.
** Who: [[Emily Dickinson]]. Letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, May 1886.
** Source: Johnson, Thomas H., ed. ''Emily Dickinson Selected Letters.'' Cambridge: Belknap, 1971.

* I'm going to heaven.
** Who: [[w:Bo Diddley|Bo Diddley]] as he lay dying on his deathbed with his family surrounding him.

* Damn!
** Who: First Officer [[James Dillard]]
*** Note: During take-off of [[w:American Airlines Flight 191|American Airlines Flight 191]], the engine separated. Prior to the black box failing, Dillard was heard saying these words. Shortly afterward, the plane crashed into the ground, killing all onboard including Dillard.

*You got me.
** Who: [[w:John Dillinger|John Dillinger]], infamous American bank robber.
** This may be an apocryphal quote. Dillinger died when a bullet passed through his brain, leaving him little opportunity for final speeches.

*I'll finally get to see Marilyn.
** Who: [[Joe DiMaggio]], talking about his former wife, [[Marilyn Monroe]].

* ישוע אתדכריני מריא מא דאתא אנת במלכותכן (''Yeshu eitdakrain marya ma dathei ant b'malkutach'')
* Translation: Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom
** Who: Saint Dimas, a.k.a. the [[w:Pentient thief|pentient thief]]

* Shit! Shit! Stop! No!
** Who: [[w:Murder of Kyle Dinkheller|Kyle Dinkheller]], deputy of the Laurens County Sheriff's Office, Georgia
*** Note: Said while being shot by Andrew Howard Brannan, whom he had pulled over for speeding. The enraged Brannan argued with Dinkheller and then began shooting him with an Iver Johnson M1 Carbine. Brannan fatally shot Dinkheller in the eye shortly after. The incident was caught on Dinkheller's dashcam and continues to be used to train law enforcement officers when confrontations become dangerous.

* Go, go. I'll be fine.
** Who: [[w:Ronnie James Dio|Ronnie James Dio]], heavy metal singer.
*** Note: Spoken to his wife while he was in the hospital with stomach cancer, but she stayed with him. A few days later he went into a coma and he was dead by the end of the week.

* Kurt Russell.
** Who: [[Walt Disney]]
*** Note: Scrawled on a piece of paper. To this day, nobody knows what he meant by it, not even Kurt Russell, who was 15 at the time.

* Иоанн же удерживал Его и говорил: мне надобно креститься pour Тебя, и Ты ли приходишь ко мне? Но Иисус сказал ему в ответ: оставь теперь, ибо так надлежит нам исполнить всякую правду. Услышьте это сейчас, позвольте! Не сдерживай меня! (''Ioann zhe uderzhival Yego i govoril: mne nadobno krestit'sya pour Tebya, i Ty li prikhodish' ko mne? No Iisus skazal yemu v otvet: ostav' teper', ibo tak nadlezhit nam ispolnit' vsyakuyu pravdu. Uslysh'te eto seychas, pozvol'te! Ne sderzhivay menya!'')
** Translation: But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Hear now—permit it. Do not restrain me!
** Who: [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]. The majority of the quote is the verses Matthew 3:14-15.

* Mike Bloomberg can get it done.
** Who: [[Kirk Douglas]].

*Don't let them put me in one of those bags, I might suffocate.
** Who: [[Darragh Doyle]] spoken before dropping a live grenade at Omaha Beach.

*Hit the water, hit the water, hit the water!
** Who: [[w:Jane Dornacker|Jane Dornacker]] as she was giving a traffic report for radio station WNBC via helicopter. The helicopter stalled and plummeted into the Hudson River while Jane was still on the air, unintentionally broadcasting her final moments all across the metropolitan New York City area. The helicopter's other occupant was seriously injured, but survived.

* Shakespeare, I come!
** Who: [[Theodore Dreiser]].

* I don't know why Marta Glass wasn't allowed in here. I love you all. Keep the faith. Remember the death penalty is murder. They are taking the life of an innocent man. My attorney, Ron Kuley, will read my letter at a press conference after this is over. That is all I have to say. I love you all.
** Who: Robert Drew, d. August 2, 1994.
*** Note: Executed by injection, Texas.

* ''Tu vas me faire mal, s'il te plaît, ne me fais pas de mal, juste une minute de plus, je t'en supplie!''
** Translation: You are going to hurt me, please don't hurt me, just one more moment, I beg you!
** Who: [[w:Madame du Barry|Madame du Barry]]

* Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?
** Who: [[w:Jessica Dubroff|Jessica Dubroff]], seven-year-old pilot speaking to her mother by telephone as the engines revved for takeoff, she (and her flight instructor) crashed minutes later in rough weather, April 11, 1996.

* ''Adieu, mes amis, Je vais à la gloire!''
** Translation: Farewell my friends, I go to glory!
** Who: [[w:Isadora Duncan|Isadora Duncan]]
*** Note: Said before she got in her car to go home. Her scarf got caught around the wheel and strangled her instantly as the driver took off.

* Stopping for a beer, be there when I can.
** Who: [[w:Ryan Dunn|Ryan Dunn]]
*** Note: Final text sent to ''Jackass'' co-worker Bam Margera, before getting involved in a car crash that would claim his life.

* Don't, don't, don't! This... this will hurt someone! Do not...
** Who: [[w:R. Budd Dwyer|R. Budd Dwyer]], Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, before he placed the barrel of a .357 Magnum revolver into his mouth and pulled the trigger in front of TV news cameras that were videotaping what was originally presumed to be a press conference (Dwyer had been found guilty of accepting bribes, and professed his innocence to the literal last moments of his life. The press conference was held on what was to be the day before his sentencing). William Smith (the witness whose testimony was critical to Dwyer's conviction) said he lied under oath to get a lighter sentence.

=E=
* We are running on line north and south.
** Who: [[w:Amelia Earhart|Amelia Earhart]]
*** Note: Earhart famously disappeared on a flight over the Pacific. The above is the last confirmed radio transmission to her headquarters before vanishing.

* Okay, just wondering.
** Who: [[w:Dale Earnhardt|Dale Earnhardt]], 7 time NASCAR Champion
*** Note: Radioed to Andy Pilgrim while driving caution laps with 21 laps to go in the Daytona 500, waiting for the last start in the race that took his life.
** The rest of the conversation was as follows: Earnhardt- "So, you got any advice for me here coming up?"; Pilgrim- "No, man, I haven't got any advice for you, just keep doing what you're doing."; Earnhardt-"Okay, just wondering"; Pilgrim- "Cheers, talk to you later." http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/10/ten-years-after-sharing-final-moments-and-a-drivers-seat-with/.

* ''[to his wife]'' Suppose, suppose.
** Who: [[Wyatt Earp]], American Old West gambler, a deputy sheriff in Pima County, and deputy town marshal in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, who took part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

* My work is done. Why wait?
** Who: [[w:George Eastman|George Eastman]]
*** Note: Written in his suicide letter.

* So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I'll see you at the movies.
** Who: [[w:Roger Ebert|Roger Ebert]]
*** Note: Final paragraph of his last public blog post, written two days before his passing.

* It's very beautiful over there.
** Who: [[Thomas Edison]]
*** Note: Spoken to his wife as he lapsed in and out of consciousness. There is debate over if he meant the afterlife, or the view from his window.

* ''In einem kurzen Weilchen, meine Herren, sehen wir uns ohnehin alle wieder. Das ist das Los aller Menschen. Es lebe Deutschland. Es lebe Argentinien. Es lebe Österreich. [...] Ich werde sie nicht vergessen.''
** Translation: In a short while, gentlemen, we'll meet each other, anyway. That's every human's fortune. Long live Germany! Long live Argentina! Long live Austria! [...] I won't forget them.
** Who: [[Adolf Eichmann]]
*** Note: Before his execution on June 1, 1962 in Jerusalem.

* ''Citater fra...''
** Who: [[Albert Einstein]]
*** Note: When Einstein died on April 18, 1955 he left a piece of writing ending in an unfinished sentence.

* Yeah, how come?
** Who: [[w:Harry Einstein|Harry "Parkyakarkus" Einstein]], dialect comic and character actor
** In response to a quip, made by Milton Berle during a Friars Club roast,asking why he did not have a regular television gig at the time. Einstein slumped over into his chair and died immediately after his response.<ref name=parkyakarkus_obit>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cCxQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HVYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6968,2437293&dq=milton+berle+son&hl=en|title=Parky Einstein Succumbs After Pocketknife Surgery|date=25 November 1958|publisher=The Victoria Advocate|accessdate=23 January 2011}}</ref>

* I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me.
** Who: [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], 34th President of the United States.

* Valerie.
** Who: [[T. S. Eliot]]
*** Note: Valerie was the name of his wife at the time of his death.

* ?מה־היה הדבר בני (''Meh-hayah haddavar beni?'')
** Translation: What happened there, my son?
** Who: [[w:Eli (biblical figure)|Eli]]
*** Note: A soldier fleeing from a battle found his way to Eli, who then asked what had happened. When the soldier told Eli the Ark of the Covenant had been captured by the Philistines, Eli fell backwards out of his chair and broke his neck.

* ''Was ist mit mir geschehen?''
** Translation: What has happened to me?
** Who: [[w:Elisabeth of Bavaria|Elisabeth, Empress of Austria]], stabbed to death on September 10, 1898.

* All my possessions for a moment of time.
** Who: [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I, Queen of England]], d. 1603.

* Are you all right?
** Who: [[w:Belinda Emmett|Belinda Emmett]], Australian actress.
*** Note: Spoken to her sister, Lesley Arthur.

* Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life.
** Who: [[w:George Engel|George Engel]], anarchist, union activist
*** Note: Shouted before his execution at the gallows.

*Now why did I do that?
** Who: [[w:Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet|General William Erskine]]
*** Note: Said after he jumped from a window in Lisbon, Portugal in 1813.

* ''Ich sterbe.''
** Translation: I die.
** Who: [[w:Leonhard Euler|Leonhard Euler]], Swiss mathematician and physicist.

*Fuck off.
** Who: Tony "Spaghetti" Eustace, Australian mobster.
*** Eustace was found by two schoolchildren who were returning home from sports training on 23 April 1985. He had been shot six times in the back outside the Airport Hilton in North Arncliffe and was lying beside his gold Mercedes, bleeding profusely. He was rushed to hospital. Police attempted to speak to him, but Eustace only said those words, and died a short time later.

=F=
* I've never felt better.
** Who: [[w:Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.|Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.]], actor, d. December 12, 1939

* We've reached one of our phase lines after the fire fight and it smells bad – meaning it's a little bit suspicious...Could be an amb–
** Who: [[w:Bernard B. Fall|Bernard B. Fall]], prominent war correspondent, historian, political scientist, and expert on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s.
*** Notes: Dictated into his tape recorder before stepping on a landmine in Vietnam

* [''Being asked: "Have you ever pondered by yourself what will be your occupation in the next world?".''] I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
** Who: [[Michael Faraday]], English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.

* [Death is like] going somewhere I've never been before, like Finland or Estonia.
** Who: [[w:Barry Farber|Barry Farber]], radio host and language enthusiast.[https://newsbrig.com/conservative-talk-radio-pioneer-barry-farber-dies-at-90/6527/]

* Please don't leave me. Please don't leave me.
** Who: [[w:Chris Farley|Chris Farley]], American actor and comedian.
** Said to a prostitute as she left his hotel room following a weekend-long drug and sex binge. When she turned around, Chris Farley had collapsed.

* Why aren't you filming this? This is what cancer is.
** Who: [[w:Farrah Fawcett|Farrah Fawcett]], American actress, model, and artist.
** Note: Spoken to her friend Alana Stewart, who was filming a documentary about her struggles with cancer.

* Remember me as a revolutionary communist.
** Who: [[w:Leslie Feinberg|Leslie Feinberg]], American, butch lesbian and transgender activist, communist, and author.

* ''Fräls mig!''
** Translation: Save me! or rather, Give me salvation!
** Who: Count [[w:Count Axel von Fersen the Younger|Axel von Fersen]].
*** Note: Fersen, who was Swedish marshal of the realm, was attacked in a mob riot during the burial procession of the crown prince, whose death wrongly was blamed on Fersen. The Count called for help from the Guard, but was killed before they could do anything.

* I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
** Who: [[Richard Feynman]], American physicist.

* Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta.
** Who: [[W.C. Fields]], American Actor and Comedian.
*** Note: "Carlotta" was [[w:Carlotta Monti|Carlotta Monti]], actress and Fields' mistress.

* ''Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu!'' ([[w:Serbo-Croatian language|Serbo-Croatian]])
**Translation: Death to fascism, freedom to the people!
** Who: [[w:Stjepan Filipović|Stjepan Filipović]], Croatian communist who led *Kolubara Company of the Valjevo Partisan Detachment* during the 1941 Partisan uprising.

* The nourishment is palatable.
** Who: [[Millard Fillmore]], 13th President of the United States.
*** Note: This was his response when his physician inquired about his food.

* Nothing soothes pain like human touch.
** Who: [[Chess]] Grandmaster [[Bobby Fischer]]
*** Note: Said while dying of kidney failure.

* I don't even know why I'm here.
** Who: [[w:Albert Fish|Albert Fish]]
*** Note: Said before execution [https://web.archive.org/web/20110608130819/http://www.prairieghosts.com/fish.html]

*If any of you have a message for the Devil, give it to me, for I am about to meet him!
** Who: [[w:Lavinia Fisher|Lavinia Fisher]], hanged for murder on February 18, 1820, while wearing her white wedding dress gown.[http://www.sonic.net/~msnyder/femvio/fem/fisher.htm]

* Good enough. They'll be fine.
** Who: [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], Irish-American novelist and short story writer.
*** Note: His response when asked if he wanted anything besides Hershey bars.

* Hey, Jimmie! The Chimney Sweeps. Talk to the Sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! Please come help me up, Henny. Max come over here... French Canadian bean soup... I want to pay, let them leave me alone...
** Who: Arthur Flegenheimer, mobster, also known as [[Dutch Schultz]].
*** Note: Flegenheimer had been fatally shot by another mobster and taken to the hospital. As police officers interrogated him on his deathbed, he gave them [http://home.swipnet.se/~w-40977/coolpeople/lastwords.html long and frequently incoherent answers, perhaps the most known of which is "A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin"] before finally dying.

* I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don't know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days.
** Who: [[Ian Fleming]], British author and journalist.
*** Note: Spoken to the ambulance drivers.

* I can't breathe.
** Who: [[w:Killing of George Floyd|George Floyd]]
*** Note: Said while Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed face down in the street.

* I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
** Who: [[Errol Flynn]], Australian-born actor.

* Billy, I've never sung that song and feel the way I do tonight.
* I'm awful tired now, Hank. I've got to go to bed.
** Who: [[w:Red Foley|Red Foley]], American country singer
** "Billy" was [[w:Billy Walker (musician)|Billy Walker]], who had led a prayer of repentance for Foley earlier that night. The song Foley had sung was the gospel number "Peace in the Valley." "Hank" was [[w:Hank Williams, Jr.|Hank Williams, Jr.]]; the words to him were the last words attributed to Foley in Williams's song "I Was with Red Foley (The Night He Passed Away)," and thus poetic license may have been taken.

* You can stop now; I'm already dead.
** Who: [[w:Abigail Folger|Abigail Folger]]
*** Note: Folger said this to her attackers, members of the Manson Family, after being stabbed repeatedly in the home of her friend Sharon Tate. Folger had first been injured in the house before running to the front lawn and collapsing, where she said her last words and died while being continually stabbed.

*I'll sleep well tonight.
** Who: [[Henry Ford]], founder of the Ford Motor Company.

*I don't want to leave you guys.
** Who: [[Rob Ford]], Canadian politician and businessman, and the 64th Mayor of Toronto.

*It is better to die with honour than live without it. Echo November Alpha."
** Who: [[w:Connellan air disaster|Colin Forman]]
*** Note: Forman, an immigrant from England, had been dismissed as a pilot from Connair after a previous conviction for ticket forgery was discovered. After being fired from another flight company in Wyndham, Forman vowed revenge on Connair's boss, Roger Connellan, whom he believed told the company about his conviction. In January 1977, he stole a Beechcraft 58 Baron from Wyndham, flew to the Alice Springs airfield, and broadcast this final message to ATC before deliberately flying the plane into the Connair complex. Connellan and three other people in the building were killed.

*I've been very, very busy... being ill!
** Who: [[w:Bruce Forsyth|Bruce Forsyth]], British presenter, when asked of his whereabouts in the year leading up to his demise.

* ''Ich bin dankbar für die freundliche Behandlung während meiner Gefangenschaft und bitte Gott, mich gnädig aufzunehmen.''
* Translation: I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.
** Who: [[w:Hans Frank|Hans Frank]], German war criminal and lawyer who worked for the Nazi Party during the 1920s and 1930s, and later became Adolf Hitler's personal lawyer.
*** Note: At the gallows, Frank, one of the only two war criminals to show true remorse for his crimes during the Nuremberg trials and sentencing, quietly answered to his name and calmly said these words before he was hanged.

* A dying man can do nothing easily.
** Who: [[Benjamin Franklin]], one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Also a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
*** Note: As he lay dying, his daughter suggested that if he lay on his side, he could breathe easier.

* ''Es ist gar nichts... es ist gar nichts...''
** Translation: It is nothing... it is nothing...
** Who: [[w:Franz Ferdinand|Franz Ferdinand]] Archduke of Austria-Hungary
** Whispered to Count Harrach as the Archduke fell unconscious after being shot; he died shortly without ever regaining consciousness. His assassination and subsequent death in Sarajevo in 1914 triggered the outbreak of World War I.

* ''Werfen Sie eine Decke über sie.''
** Translation: Throw a quilt over her.
** Who: [[Frederick II of Prussia]], who noticed his greyhound shivering and issued this order to his valet.

* ''Das ist nicht wahr! Ich werde in der Montur sterben?''
** Translation: That's not true! I'm gonna die in this suit?
** Alternatively: No, not quite naked. I shall have my uniform on.
** Who: [[w:Frederick William I of Prussia|Frederick William I]], King of Prussia from 1713 - 1740, d. 31 May, 1740

* ''Das gute Essen.''
** Translation: The good meal.
** Who: [[w:Fredrik I|Fredrik I]] of Sweden
*** Note: He probably meant the Holy Communion although one of the king's favourite activities was to eat.

* Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? 'French Fries'!
** Who: [[w:James_French_(murderer)|James French]].
*** Note: French, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair. He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution.

* ''Sag Anna von unserem Vortrag.''
** Translation: Tell [[w:Anna Freud|Anna]] of our talk.
** Who: [[Sigmund Freud]]
*** Note: Anna was Freud's daughter. Freud had been in agony for some months due to oral cancer and had previously discussed with his physician that he wished to be euthanized rather than endure prolonged suffering.

* ''Bitte lass es.''
** Translation: Please leave it.
** Who: [[w:Werner von Fritsch|Werner von Fritsch]]

* Why fear death? It's life's greatest adventure.
** Who: [[w:Charles Frohman|Charles Frohman]], As he stood on the deck of the sinking liner [[RMS Lusitania]] with French actress [[Rita Jolivet]], he quoted this line from his friend, [[J.M. Barrie]]'s "Peter Pan" on the 7th May 1915 at 14:28pm.
*** Note: Charles Frohman was standing on deck when the torpedo struck the RMS Lusitania, and 18 minutes later, he was dragged under with the ship by the suction. During then, he saw Rita Jolivet on deck and asked her to hold on to the rail until they knew what to do. His friends escaped and so did Rita, but Charles was among the 1198 people who perished in the disaster.

* She is squeezing my hand!
** Who: [[Buckminster Fuller]]
*** Note: In the period leading up to his death, his wife had been lying comatose in a Los Angeles hospital, dying of cancer. It was while visiting her there that he exclaimed, at a certain point: "She is squeezing my hand!" He then stood up, suffered a heart attack and died an hour later. His wife died 36 hours after he did.

=G=
* I love you.
** Who: [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]]

* Kiss my ass! You'll never find the rest!
** Who: [[John Wayne Gacy]]
*** Note: Gacy's last words before being executed by lethal injection. The "rest" refers to the bodies of his other victims, which indeed were all found.

* !لا تطلق النار لي! لا تطلق النار لي (''la tutliq alnaar li!'' ''la tutliq alnaar li!'')
* !لا تقتلني يا أبنائي (''la taqtulani ya 'abnayiy!'')
* ماذا فعلت لك؟ هل تعرف الحق من الخطأ؟ (''madha faealt lak? hal taerif alhaqa min alkhata?'')
* !ماذا تفعل؟ حرام. لا يسمح به في الشريعة الإسلامية. حرام. ما تفعلونه ممنوع في الإسلام (''madha tafealu? haram. la yasmah bih fi alshryet al'iislamiat. haram. ma tafealunah mamnue fi al'iislam!'')
** Translation:
* Don't shoot me! Don't shoot me!
* Don't kill me, my sons!
* What did I do to you? Do you know right from wrong?
* What are you doing? It's haraam [forbidden]. It's not allowed in Islamic law. Haraam. What you are doing is forbidden in Islam!
** Who: [[Muammar Gaddafi]]
*** Note: All of the above were allegedly heard as Gaddafi was dragged through the streets. As of the 23rd of October 2011, there is no officially accepted version of the death of Gaddafi.

* I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass.
** Who: Johnny Frank Garrett, Sr., d. February 11, 1992
*** Note: Executed by injection, Texas.

* Баатар! Жинхэнэ баатар! (''Bataar! Jinkhene baatar!'')
* Миний төгсгөлийг чамаас гуйхгүй, ямар ч шалтгаангүйгээр битгий уйлж, дуулгавартай байгаарай, дайсан минь миний үхлээс сэрэмжлүүлцгээе. (''Minii tögsgöliig chamaas guikhgüi, yamar ch shaltgaangüigeer bitgii uilj, duulgavartai baigaarai, daisan mini minii ükhlees seremjlüültsgeeye.'')
** Translation:
* Hero! A real hero!
* Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep or keen for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.
** Who: [[Genghis Khan]]
*** Note: The first set of words were presumably Genghis Khan's last words according to legend, while the second set were supposed to have been spoken after he fell ill as his forces approached the Tangut capital of Ningxia.

* ''Ne pleure pas, Alfred ! J'ai besoin de tout mon courage pour mourir à vingt ans !''
** Translation: Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty!
** Who: Mathematician [[w:Evariste Galois|Evariste Galois]]
*** Note: Spoken to his brother Alfred after being fatally wounded in a duel.

* चिंता मत करो, आराम करो! (''chinta mat karo, aaraam karo!'')
** Translation: Don't worry, relax!
** Who: [[w:Rajiv Gandhi|Rajiv Gandhi]], Indian Prime Minister.
*** Note: To his security staff, allowing the suicide bomber to go near him as if to give flowers.

* हे राम! (''Hé Ram!'')
** Translation: O God!
** Who: [[Mohandas Gandhi]].
*** Note: These words were reportedly spoken after Gandhi had been shot. According to his assassin Godse, Gandhi "just made a 'Uh ...' kind of sound and slid down". The above words were inserted by the Congress.

* [''To his chief of staff, [[w:David G. Swaim|David G. Swaim]]''] Oh Swaim, there is a pain here. Swaim, can't you stop this? Oh, oh, Swaim!
** Who: [[James A. Garfield]], 20th President of the United States. As quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=UzEYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA573&dq=%22swaim+there+is+a+pain%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Kb4GVcaIAcjDggSYiYOoCQ&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22swaim%20there%20is%20a%20pain%22&f=false "The Last Hours"], ''Life of President Garfield: The Complete Record of a Wonderful Career'' (1881), by William Ralston Balch, p. 573.

* I can't breathe!
** Who: [[w:Death of Eric Garner|Eric Garner]]
*** Note: Said while officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a chokehold and slammed onto the ground. After a few seconds, Pantaleo uses his hands to push Garner's head down on the sidewalk. As Pantaleo removed his arm from Garner's neck, he said the above line eleven times before going unconscious.

* Save my son first!
** Who: [[w:Shad Gaspard|Shad Gaspard]], professional wrestler and actor.
*** Note: Said to a lifeguard at Venice Beach, who tried to rescue Gaspard and his 10-year old son after a rip current had swept them both to sea, insisting that his son be rescued first. The lifeguard was able to rescue his son, but Gaspard was pushed back down under a wave shortly afterwards, disappearing until his body was found three days later washed up on the shore.

* I don't want to lay down!
** Who: [[w:Hank Gathers|Hank Gathers]], college basketball player
*** Note: Gathers collapsed during a tournament game between the Loyola Marymount Lions and Portland Pilots and was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. His death was attributed to a heart condition.

* ''Ça fait mal là.'' / ''Ça fait mal ici.''
** Translation: I feel pain here.
** Who: [[Charles de Gaulle]], French leader.

* व्अय्अध्अम्म्आ स्अङख्आर्आ अप्प्अम्आद्एन्अ स्अम्प्आद्एथ्आ (''vayadhammā saṅkhārā appamādena sampādethā'')
** Translation: All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive with earnestness.
** Who: [[w:Buddha|Siddhārtha Gautama]], a.k.a. the Buddha

* I got what I wanted... I couldn't do it myself, so I had him do it... it's good, I ran my race, there's no more left in me.
** Who: [[Marvin Gaye]]
*** Note: Moments earlier, Gaye was fatally shot by his father, Marvin Gay, Sr.

*Fifty-fifty.
** Who: [[Lou Gehrig]]
*** Note: Mouthed these words to his wife Eleanor.

* Goddamn you!
** Who: [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V of the United Kingdom]]
*** Note: Alleged last words, after his nurse administered a sedative. [[w:Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn|Lord Bertrand Dawson]], the royal physician, had given a poor prognosis of the king's worsening bronchitis, and decided to euthanize George V so that his death would reach the press in time for the morning news. George V himself adamantly protested, hence his fervent dying words. Neither [[w:Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] or [[w:Edward VIII|Edward VIII]], George's wife and son, were consulted.
* Oh, Jesus Christ! AAAAAAAHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! [unintelligible]
** Who: Charles Gilbert, captain of [[w:Western Airlines Flight 2605|Western Airlines Flight 2605]].
*** Note: Said after the flight landed on the incorrect runway and struck a maintenance vehicle, before banking right and flying towards an aircraft hangar. These were the last words captured on the flight's CVR before impact. Gilbert's exact last words are unclear, although it is possible that he may have yelled "Oh shit! Momma!"

* There'll always be a Meersman.
** Who: [[w:Gary Gilmore|Gary Gilmore]]
** Before his execution by firing squad in Utah on January 17, 1977. This was first execution in the United States after 10-years moratorium
**After being asked for any last words, Gilmore simply replied, "Let's do it." The Rev. Thomas Meersman, the Roman Catholic prison chaplain, imparted Gilmore's last rites. After the prison physician cloaked him in a black hood, Gilmore uttered his last words to the Father Meersman: Gary: Dominus vobiscum (Latin translation: "The Lord be with you.") Meersman: Et cum spiritu tuo ("And with your spirit") Gary (grinning): There'll always be a Meersman. TIME Magazine, ed. "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918639,00.html After Gilmore, Who's Next to Die]", Time Magazine 31 Jan. 1977. Time.com. TIME Magazine Publisher: Time Inc. Web. 23 July 2009.

* Take her down!
** Who: [[w:Howard W. Gilmore|Howard W. Gilmore]]
*** Note: Gilmore was a submarine commander who chose to stay above water after his vessel inadvertently rammed a Japanese convoy ship and began to list. Grievously wounded, he commanded his crew to leave him behind and get below, and was assumedly swept out to sea as the submarine dove to take cover.

*My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.
**Who: [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]
***Note: Dictated to her granddaughter.<ref name="rbg">{{Cite web |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/ruth-bader-ginsburg-rbg-dying-wish.html |last=Stahl |first=Jeremy |date=September 18, 2020 |accessdate=September 18, 2020 |work={{W|Slate (magazine)|Slate}} |lang=en-US |title=RBG's Dying Words: 'My Most Fervent Wish Is That I Not Be Replaced Until a New President Is Installed'}}</ref> Despite her wishes, her Supreme Court seat was reappointed under the incumbent president at the time of her death.

* I'd rather be fishing.
** Who: [[w:Jimmy L. Glass|Jimmy L. Glass]]
*** Note: Before his execution in Louisiana electric chair, 1987

* I always knew what I was doing.
** Who: [[w:Jackie Gleason|Jackie Gleason]]
*** Note: to [[w:Audrey Meadows|Audrey Meadows]], via telephone, according to Meadows' book ''Love, Alice: My Life as a Honeymooner.'' Gleason died a week later on June 24, 1987.

* Well, I hope Percy ain't going to forget to wet the sponge. Put me on the highway to Jackson and call my Irish buddies. ''Póg mo thóin'', God bless.
** Who: [[w:Robert Gleason (murderer)|Robert Gleason]]
*** Note: Said before execution. "Póg mo thóin" is Irish for "Kiss my arse".

* ''Grazie, di tutto.''
**Translation: Thank you for everything.
** Who: [[w:Carlo Gnocchi|Blessed Father Carlo Gnocchi]]

* I-I don't know- I don't know nobody by that name!
** Who: [[w:Shooting of Robert Godwin|Robert Godwin Sr.]]
*** Note: Godwin Sr. had been randomly chosen by shooter Steve Stephens, who asked if Godwin Sr. could say "Joy Lane" (Stephens' girlfriend's name) and that she was the reason he was going to kill him. Perplexed, Godwin Sr. stated his last words immediately before being shot dead. Stephens filmed the entire incident and uploaded it to Facebook. He committed suicide by gunshot after being chased down by police two days later.

* ''Mehr Licht.''
** Translation: More light.
** Who: [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
** It is also reported that "Come my little one, and give me your hand." were the last words he declared to his daughter-in-law Ottilie.
** Another version reported is "Nichts mehr" (nothing more)

* No! I didn't come here to make a speech. I came here to die.
** Who: Crawford Goldsby, aka ''Cherokee Bill'', when asked if he had anything to say before he was hanged.

*I don't know.
** Who: [[w:Jerry Goldsmith|Jerry Goldsmith]]

* New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but everything in new york aint always what it seems. (sent via Twitter account on 25 August 2009)
** Who: [[w:Adam Goldstein|Adam Goldstein]] (aka "DJ AM")
*** Note: He was found dead in his apartment three days later on 28 August 2009 after friends called police when they were unable to contact him for several days. While it is not known to be his last words, this was his last contact with friends and family.
*** These are lyrics from a song by [[w:Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five|Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five]].

*This is taking a long time.
** Who: [[w:David_Goodall_(botanist)|David Goodall]], Australian botanist, just after administering his own lethal injection as part of a physician assisted suicide at the age of 104.

* 馬鹿者！馬鹿者！ (''Bakamono! Bakamono!!'')
**(also quoted as ''Bakayaro! Bakayaro!'')
** Translation: Idiots! Idiots!
** Who: Admiral [[w:Aritomo Gotō|Aritomo Gotō]]'s last words to his staff, believing to have been hit by friendly fire, October 11, 1942

* I really need a therapist.
** Who: Christopher Grace, an actor who killed himself during a matinee performance of Grease.

* ''Criei uma bandeira da dignidade do esporte. Eu supervisiono o nome da minha família com carinho, nervos e sangue constantes.''
** Translation: I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.
** Who: [[w:Hélio Gracie|Hélio Gracie]], co-founder of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, or modern-day [https://www.attacktheback.com Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu].

* Water.
** Who: [[Ulysses S. Grant]], 18th President of the United States
*** Note: Suffering from throat cancer, Grant could not speak much, but shortly before his death he wrote what is also sometimes considered his last words: "There was never one more willing to go than I am."

* ''Vel, hvis det må være slik.''
** Translation: Well, if it must be so.
** Who: [[w:Edvard Grieg|Edvard Grieg]], a Norwegian composer and pianist.

* I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.
** Who: Thomas J. Grasso, d. March 20, 1995
*** Note: Executed by lethal injection, Oklahoma.

* It's stopped.
** Who: [[w:Joseph Henry Green|Joseph Henry Green]]
*** Note: Said upon checking his own pulse.

* ''Schnell.''
** Translation: Hurry.
** Who: [[w:Irma Grese|Irma Grese]]
*** Note: Spoken to her executioner, [[Albert Pierrepoint]] seconds before she was hanged.

* Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!
** Who: [[w:Lady Jane Grey|Lady Jane Grey]]

* The first one was easy!
** Who: David Grundman
*** Note: Spoken to roommate James Suchochi after shooting down a small saguaro cactus in February, 1982, in the Arizonan desert. Grundman began shooting at a larger saguaro from close range immediately after. One arm of the cactus detached and pinned Grundman to the ground, and the rest of the cactus collapsed on him, killing him almost instantly.

* ''Sé que estas aquí para matarme. Dispara, cobarde, solo vas a matar a un hombre.''
** Translation: I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
** Who: [[Che Guevara]].

* ''Au moins, je meurs célèbre.''
** Translation: At least I die famous.
** Who: [[w:Albert Guay|Albert Guay]]
*** Note: Before being executed for bombing a passenger flight.

* Glory hallelujah! I am with the Lord, Glory, ready, go!
** Who: [[w:Charles Guiteau|Charles Guiteau]], assassin of US President James A. Garfield, hanged in 1882

* Nobody shot me.
** Who: [[w:Frank Gusenberg|Frank "Tight Lips" Gusenberg]], American mobster murdered as part of the [[w:Saint Valentine's Day massacre|Saint Valentine's Day massacre]].
*** Note: In response to a police officer who asked "Who shot you?" Contrary to his statement, Gusenberg had been shot 14 times.

* And now for a final word from our sponsor...
** Who: [[w:Charles Gussman|Charles Gussman]], a television writer who wrote for the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''.

* What's that?!
** Who: Joakim Gustafsson, [[w:Linate Airport disaster|Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686]] pilot
*** Note: Said when he saw a Cessna plane on the runway at Linate Airport in Milan, Italy just as about he was to take off. The plane collided with the Cessna and it then crashed into an airport hangar, killing all on board both planes plus 4 people inside the hangar.

* ''Ich bin der König von Schweden - gewesen.''
** Translation: I was the king of Sweden. Note: The German perfect of "be," "I have been," is constructed with a finite form of "be" (here "bin") and its participle ("gewesen"). Without "gewesen" at the end, one would translate "I am the king of Sweden." Thus the weight of the sentence rests on an untranslatable bit of grammatical cleverness. Literally translated into English, the quote would be "I am the king of Sweden - was." An equivalent English phrasing in meaning would be "I am the king of Sweden... no more".
** Who: [[w:Gustavus Adolphus|Gustavus II Adolphus]] of Sweden
*** Note: Said to an imperial soldier at the battle of Lützen.

* ''Jag känner mig sömnig, ett kort ögonblicks vila skulle göra mig gott.''
** Translation: I feel sleepy, a short time of rest would do me good.
** Who: [[w:Gustavus III|Gustavus III of Sweden]]. He had been shot at a masquerade ball two weeks earlier.

* You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant.
** Who: [[w:Woody Guthrie|Woody Guthrie]]
*** Note: This quote is a best guess. Woody's son, [[w:Arlo Guthrie|Arlo]], had delivered a demonstration copy of his song "[[w:Alice's Restaurant|Alice's Restaurant Massacree]]" to his father on his deathbed. According to a Guthrie family "joke," Guthrie was listening to the recording when he died.

* Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.
** Who: [[w:Edmund Gwenn|Edmund Gwenn]], actor, d. September 6, 1959
*** Note: When asked if he thought dying was tough.

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* ''Lat det være, Marie – jeg dør nu.''
** Translation: Leave it be, Marie – I'm dying now.
** Who: [[w:Knut Hamsun|Knut Hamsun]]
*** Note: To his wife, Marie, when she attempts to correct his pillow. Knut Hamsun slept the last two days of his life, with his wife by his side.

* I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
** Who: [[Nathan Hale]], American spy, hanged in 1776, according to the account by [[w:William Hull|William Hull]] based on reports by [[w:John Montresor|John Montresor]]. This has also been quoted as: I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. Some speculation exists that he might have been repeating or paraphrasing lines from [[w:Joseph Addison|Joseph Addison]]'s play ''Cato'': What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country.

* Southerly gales, squalls, lee rail under water, wet bunks, hard tack, bully beef, wish you were here — instead of me!
** Who: [[Richard Halliburton]], last known communication from the Chinese junk ''Sea Dragon'' at sea, March 23 1939

*I'm gonna put you on fourteen-seven and that'll give you-
*Oh shit!
** Who: Frank Halpin, Captain of Flying Tiger Line Flight 66
*** Notes: Halpin was the Captain on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tiger_Line_Flight_66 Flying Tiger Line Flight 66] when it crashed into a hill on approach to Kuala Lumpur on February 19 1989 killing all four on board. The first line was regarding the settings for an Instrument landing system approach, which are his last confirmed words. In the final seconds of the flight, a voice declared the second line and it is unclear whether it was Halpin or the First Officer on realizing they were about to crash.

* This is a mortal wound, doctor. [''to Dr. David Hosack''] [''And then, to his wife''] Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian.
*If they break this Union, they will break my heart.
** Who: [[Alexander Hamilton]]
*** Notes: Spoken after being shot by [[Aaron Burr]] in a [[W:duel|duel]], The 3rd quote is his actual final words before passing away from his injuries according to Ron Chernow's biography on Alexander Hamilton.

* Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don't worry too much.
** Who: [[w:Rob Hall|Rob Hall]], lead guide of the disastrous [[w:1996 Everest disaster|1996 Mount Everest expedition]]. Said to his wife via satellite phone as he lay dying from exposure.

* ''Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent.''
** Translation: Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
** Who: [[Hannibal Barca|Hannibal]]

* That's good. Go on, read some more.
** Who: [[Warren G. Harding]], 29th President of the United States, to his wife, who was reading him flattering newspaper accounts. He died of a heart attack moments later.

* I love you.
** Who: [[w:Oliver Hardy|Oliver Hardy]]
*** Note: Spoken to his wife.

* ''Tout est une illusion.''
** Translation: Everything is an illusion.
** Who: [[w:Mata Hari|Mata Hari]]
*** Note: Spoken to a visitor before she faced a firing squad. The words reflect the Eastern mysticism which had long fascinated her.

* Where is Aunt Jetty? Hope she didn't run out on me...
** Who: [[w:Jean Harlow|Jean Harlow]], who died on June 6, 1937

* One! Two! Three!
** Who: [[w:Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold|Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold]], perpetrators of the [[w:Columbine High School massacre|Columbine High School massacre]], just before committing suicide by gunshot

* It was the food! Don't touch the food!
** Who: [[w:Richard Harris|Richard Harris]], actor.
*** Note: Spoken to fellow hotel guests, as he was wheeled through the foyer by paramedics.

* You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.
** Who: [[w:Robert Alton Harris|Robert Alton Harris]], before his execution on April 21, 1992.
*** His last words are a misquote of a line in the 1991 film [[Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey]]: "You might be a king or a little street sweeper but sooner or later you dance with the reaper."

* Are the doctors here? Doctor, my lungs...
** Who: [[Benjamin Harrison]], 23rd president of the United States. He died of pneumonia.

* Love one another.
* Do you want me to come with you?
** Who: [[George Harrison]], who died from cancer on November 29, 2001. The first set of words were the last he said to his wife and son, the second were the last he said to his [[Beatles]] band mate [[Ringo Starr]], jokingly in response to Ringo stating he would go to visit his sick daughter.

* Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
** Who: [[William Henry Harrison]], 9th President of the United States and the first to die in office.
*** Note: He spoke those words to his doctor, which were intended for Vice President John Tyler.

* Look out!
** Who: [[w:Owen Hart|Owen Hart]], professional wrestler

* Gentlemen, I bid you farewell...
** Who: [[w:Wallace Hartley|Wallace Hartley]], to his fellow band mates before the Titanic sank, April 15, 1912.
*** Note: One survivor who clambered aboard Collapsible A distinctly heard Hartley say these words before he and the band were swept off the deck by the sea.

* Be brave! Be determined! Overcome the odds! It can be done!
** Who: [[Stephen Hawking]]

* ''Kinder werden getröstet, mir geht es gut.''
** Translation: Children be comforted, I am well.
** Who: [[Joseph Haydn]]
*** Note: Haydn's last words, as Napoleon's troops lay siege upon Vienna.

* I know that I am going where Lucy is.
** Who: [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], 19th President of the United States, speaking of his late wife

* Critter five-ninety-two, we need the, uh, closest airport available.
** Who: First Officer [[w:Richard Hazen|Richard Hazen]], ValuJet 592, last recorded words before crashing into the Everglades due to in-flight fire on May 11, 1996.

* Well, I've had a happy life.
** Who: [[William Hazlitt]]

* ''Noli timere''
** Translation: Do not be afraid
** Who: [[Seamus Heaney]], Irish poet and Nobel Laureate
*** Note: Texted to his wife, Marie, minutes before dying.

* Be inspired.
** Who: [[w:Heavy D|Heavy D]], American rapper.
*** Note: Final tweet sent before collapsing outside his Beverly Hills home in 2011. [http://xfinity.comcast.net/slideshow/entertainment-lastwords/2/]

* ''Nur du hast mich jemals verstanden. ...und du hast es falsch gemacht.''
** Translation: Only you have ever understood me. ... And you got it wrong.
** Who: [[Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel]], to his favorite student.

* ''Dieu me pardonnera, c'est son métier.''
** Translation: God will forgive me. It is his profession.
** Who: [[Heinrich Heine]]

*Goodnight, my kitten.
** Who: [[Ernest Hemingway]]
*** Note: Spoken to his wife before committing suicide.

* The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again.
** Who: [[Jimi Hendrix]]
*** Note: Said in a poem found next to him on his deathbed. The following was the final sentence in the poem.

* ''Je ne m'occupe plus de ça.''
** Translation: I care for nothing, anymore.
** Who: [[w:Henry II of England|Henry II]], king of England
*** Note: Last words are also reported as ''Honte. Honte à un roi vaincu!'' ("Shame, shame on a defeated king!")

* ''Ich tōcnāwe ich dīeġe in þis caumbre, and departe þis līf for Jherusalem''
** Translation: I know I will die in this chamber, and depart this life for Jerusalem.
** Who: [[w:Henry IV of England|Henry IV]], king of England

* Turn up the lights— I don't want to go home in the dark.
** Who: [[O. Henry]] (William Sydney Porter), June 5, 1910

* Here is a book worth more than all the other books which were ever printed; yet it is my misfortune never to have, till lately, found the time to read it with proper attention and feeling.
** Who: [[Patrick Henry]], American attorney, orator and Founding Father.
*** Note: Shortly before he died in his home, a friend saw him reading the Bible, and he replied with these words.

* I trust in the merits of Christ. All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!
** Who: [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], King of England
*** Note: Perhaps in reference to the monks he caused to be evicted during the dissolution of the monasteries.

* Maybe I'm dying.
** Who: [[Jim Henson]], American puppeteer and filmmaker, creator of [[The Muppets]].

* Enough already.
** Who: [[w:William Herrick|William Herrick]], writer

* And now, I am officially dead.
** Who: [[w:Abram S. Hewitt|Abram S. Hewitt]], American industrialist. He had just removed the oxygen tube from his mouth in the hospital.

* Can you believe this crap?
** Who: [[w:Jon-Erik Hexum|John-Erik Hexum]]
*** Note: Hexum was napping on the set of ''Cover Up'' during a delay in the filming of an episode. When told that there was going to be more delays, he jokingly said the line above before shooting himself with a gun filled with blanks that was meant for a scene in the episode. The blast fractured his skull and caused a massive brain hemorrhage. He was declared brain dead six days later.

* If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
** Who: [[w:Heather Heyer|Heather Heyer]]
*** Note: On 12 August 2017, the 32 year old Charlottesville, Virginia paralegal was among the counter-protesters demonstrating at the [[w:2017 Unite the Right rally|2017 Unite the Right rally]] which included members of white supremacist, white nationalist, alt-right, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi, and militia movements protesting against the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials from public spaces. A car, driven by James Alex Fields, Jr., rammed a crowd of counter-protesters, killing Heyer and injuring 19 others. While her last spoken words are not known, the statement recognized as her last was her final posting on her Facebook account on the day of the demonstration.

* I've said all that I've had to say.
** Who: [[Bill Hicks]], American comedian
*** Note: Hicks did not die until 11 days later, but he quit speaking after saying this.

* Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
** Who: [[Joe Hill]], in a letter to Bill Haywood, leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, before he was led to his execution by firing squad.
** It should be noted, however, that after he heard the words of the executioner, "Ready... aim..." Hill shouted out his actual final word as a command: Fire! [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A676361]

* Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.
** Who: [[w:Conrad Hilton|Conrad Hilton]] when asked if he had any last words of wisdom.

* ''Ich bin Heinrich Himmler.''
** Translation: I am Heinrich Himmler.
** Who: [[Heinrich Himmler]], German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military commander

* One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
** Who: [[Alfred Hitchcock]], English film director and producer

* Capitalism. Downfall.
** Who: [[Christopher Hitchens]], English-American author.

* ''Ich selbst und meine Gattin wählen, um der Schande des Absetzens oder der Kapitulation zu entgehen, den Tod. Es ist unser Wille, sofort an der Stelle verbrannt zu werden, an der ich den größten Teil meiner täglichen Arbeit im Laufe eines zwölfjährigen Dienstes an meinem Volke geleistet habe.''
* ''Vor allem verpflichte ich die Führung der Nation und die Gefolgschaft zur peinlichen Einhaltung der Rassegesetze und zum unbarmherzigen Widerstand gegen den Weltvergifter aller Völker, das internationale Judentum''
** Translation:
* I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.
*Above all, I charge the leadership of the nation and their followers with the strict observance of the racial laws and with merciless resistance against the universal poisoners of all peoples, international Jewry.
** Who: [[Adolf Hitler]], German Nazi dictator
*** Note: These are the last sentences in Adolf Hitler's last will and political testament respectively. They were issued on 29 April 1945, 4:00 AM. Hitler committed suicide with his long-time girlfriend and recently married wife Eva Braun the next day. These texts serve as his last confirmed words and final statement.<ref>http://www.auschwitz.dk/Will.htm.</ref> Guards stationed at the Führerbunker reported Hitler and Braun said farewells to the bunker's occupants before resigning to their study, and subsequently only silence before the gunshot that took Hitler's life was heard.

* I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
** Who: [[w:Thomas Hobbes|Thomas Hobbes]], English philosopher

* 7:30.
** Who: [[w:Gil Hodges|Gil Hodges]], answering to New York Mets coach Joe Pignatano about what time they were to meet for dinner at their hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida. Hodges then collapsed from a heart attack and died about half an hour later at a nearby hospital.

* You've got to stop this [[w:War in Afghanistan (2001-present)|war in Afghanistan]].
** Who: [[Richard Holbrooke]] (d. 2010), American diplomat. Words to his Pakistani surgeon, as reported in ''The Washington Post'' (December 14, 2010).

* Don't be in such a hurry.
** Who: [[Billie Holiday]]

* This is funny.
** Who: [[w:Doc Holliday|Doc Holliday]]
** Note: Doc Holliday was a consumptive gunfighter. He always thought, and perhaps hoped, that he would die in a fight or "with his boots on". He died in a hotel bed from tuberculosis. These last words were uttered after seeing his feet with boots off.

* I know this beach like the back of my hand.
* Who: [[w:Harold Holt|Harold Holt]], 17th Prime Minister of Australia.
** Note: Said moments before swimming at [[w:Cheviot Beach|Cheviot Beach]] in rough conditions. Minutes later, Holt was swept out to sea, apparently caught in a rip tide. His body was never recovered.

* Levi Strauss was one of my best friends.
** Who: [[Herbert Hoover]], 31st President of the United States
*** Note: Accounts differ to whether Hoover's last spoken words were documented or not. His last written words were a get-well message to former President Harry S. Truman, who hit his head on the bathtub after slipping in his bathroom: "Bathtubs are a menace to ex-presidents for as you may recall a bathtub rose up and fractured my vertebrae when I was in Venezuela on your world famine mission in 1946. My warmest sympathy and best wishes for your speedy recovery."

* Surprise me.
** Who: [[Bob Hope]], American comedian
*** Note: Spoken to his wife when asked where he wanted to be buried.

* I'm tired of fighting! I guess this thing is going to get me.
** Who: [[Harry Houdini]], American magician
**Houdini is often said to have died after being punched in the stomach before having a chance to tighten his abdominal muscles. This is a fabrication. Houdini was punched in the stomach, however doctors agree such a blow could not have caused his appendix to burst, which is what happened and is the cause of his death.

* Texas, Margaret! Texas!
** Who: [[w:Sam Houston|Sam Houston]]

* I've been really sick lately, so I'm sorry that I haven't answered yours and Ernie's letters, but I think about you daily.
** Who: [[w:Moe Howard|Moe Howard]], American comedian, member of [[The Three Stooges]]
*** Note: Howard telephoned these words to one of his partners as he was dying of lung cancer.

* Haha!
** Who: [[w:Shemp Howard|Shemp Howard]], American comedian, member of [[The Three Stooges]]
*** Note: Howard was sitting in a taxicab next to his friend Al Winston and had just told a joke when he immediately slumped over on Winston's lap and died of an apparent heart attack. Winston believed Howard was playing a joke because of the laughing, but he then realized he had actually died.

* No. I don't believe so.
** Who: [[w:Rock Hudson|Rock Hudson]]
*** Note: Spoken to Tom Clark, who asked if he wanted another cup of coffee.

* ''C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit. Je vois de la lumière noire.''
** Translation: This is the fight of day and night. I see black light.
** Who: [[Victor Hugo]]

* Roger, uh, b-
** Who: Colonel [[w:Rick Husband|Rick Husband]], commander of the doomed space shuttle mission [[w:STS-107|STS-107]].
*** Note: The transmission from the [[w:Space_Shuttle_Columbia|Columbia]] cut out mid-sentence shortly before the shuttle disintegrated during earth interface.

* وأشهد أن لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله مُحَمَّد— (''ašhadu ʾan lā ʾilāha ʾillā llāh muḥammadu-'')
** Translation: I swear that there is no God but God and Muhammad—, which is the [[w:Shahadah|Shahadah]], the Muslim affirmation of faith.
** Who: [[Saddam Hussein]]
** Saddam's last words at gallows when the trap door was released. He was hanged before he could finish the prayer. [http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=294756&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/]
** Apart from this prayer, his last words were Heya hay il marjala...? (Is this your manhood...?) responding to the shoutings of the hooded hangmen, "مقتدى مقتدى مقتدى" ("Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada,") in reference to [[w:Moqtada Sadr|Muqtada al-Sadr]], the powerful and radical [[w:Shi'a Islam|Shi'ite]] cleric who is a major power behind Shi'ite Prime Minister [[w:Nouri al-Maliki|Nouri al-Maliki]] [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/07/PKGMKLMIGO1.DTL]
** Others have accounted his last words were "إلى جهنم" - "Go to hell!" and "Palestine is Arab!"

* You shot me, you got me, I'm good.
** Who: [[w:Nipsey Hussle|Nipsey Hussle]], American rapper
*** Note: Hussle was murdered outside of his Marathon Clothing store in Los Angeles. Eyewitnesses report that after he was shot twice and fell, he raised his head from the ground where he lay and said those words to the assailant, who was walking away. The gunman then returned, firing additional shots at Hussle before kicking him in the head and fleeing the scene.[https://www.tmz.com/2019/04/07/nipsey-hussle-murder-fired-shots-rapper-spoke-eric-holder/?adid=foxnewstmztrafficexchange][https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nipsey-hussle-eric-holder-murder-transcripts-20190627-story.html] Nipsey Hussle's final public words, sent as a Tweet, were "Having strong enemies is a blessing." [https://twitter.com/NipseyHussle/status/1112472675169886208]

* LSD, 100 micrograms I.M.
** Who: [[Aldous Huxley]] in a note to his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.

=I=
* ''Tvert imot!''
** Translation: On the contrary!
** Who: [[Henrik Ibsen]]
** Context: This was his response to a nurse who told a visitor he was a little better.

* I have no doubts.
** Who: [[w:Gwen Ifill|Gwen Ifill]]

* I am better now.
** Who: [[Robert G. Ingersoll]]
** Context: Ingersoll used these same words in his eulogy for his brother, Ebon, saying, "He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, {{'}}I am better now.{{'}} Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas, of fears and tears, that these dear words are true of all the countless dead."

* Aloha.
** Who: [[Daniel Inouye]]

* I have to set my pillows one more night, when will this end already?
** Who: [[Washington Irving]] - American author
**Context: said to his niece as he readied himself for bed, whereupon he suffered a stroke and collapsed at the age of 70.

* Don't worry, they usually don't swim backwards.
* I'm dying.
** Who: [[Steve Irwin]] A.K.A. The Crocodile Hunter
**Context: Said when he was examining a stingray in the Great Barrier Reef. It did, however, swim backwards and the tail pierced his chest. He later died of blood loss.
**During an interview on Australian TV show [[w:Studio 10|Studio 10]], cameraman Justin Lyons said the second of these quotes were Irwin's final words; while Lyons tried to reassure him, Irwin "sort of calmly looked up [at Lyons] and said, 'I'm dying'. And that was the last thing he said".

* May a blessing rest upon you, my sons, and upon your seed this day, for ye have given me rest, and my heart is not pained concerning the birthright, lest thou shouldest work wickedness on account of it. May the Most High God bless the man that worketh righteousness, him and his seed for ever.
** Who: [[w:Isaac|Isaac]]

* 話せばわかる. (''Hanaseba wakaru.'')
**Translation: Let's talk it over, and we'll understand each other.
** Who: [[w:Inukai Tsuyoshi|Inukai Tsuyoshi]] - Prime Minister of Japan
**Context: Said just before he was assassinated by naval officers in a coup d'état [[w:May 15 Incident|May 15 Incident]]. Although he gently invited them to his parlor and tried to have a meaningful conversation, their response was "問答無用. (Mondou muyou.)" ("No use arguing.")

* You stay. I go.
** Who: [[w:Ishi|"Ishi"]] (c.1861-1916), last surviving member of the Yahi tribe.

=J=
* Oh, do not cry. Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven ... I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven.
** Who: [[Andrew Jackson]], 7th President of the United States. Last recorded words, to his grand-children and his servants, as quoted in ''The National Preacher'' (1845) by Austin Dickinson, p. 192.

* Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
** Who: General [[Stonewall Jackson|Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson]]
** Note: Jackson was accidentally shot by his own men and later died from pneumonia.

* More milk.
** Who: [[Michael Jackson]]
*** Note: Spoken to his doctor, Conrad Murray. The "milk" in question is the nickname he gave the drug propofol, which he was asking Murray for before he died from an overdose.

* אני נאסף אל־עמי קברו אתי אל־אבתי אל־המערה אשר בשדה עפרון החתי במערה אשר בשדה המכפלה אשר על־פני־ממרא בארץ כנען אשר קנה אברהם את־השדה מאת עפרן החתי לאחזת־קבר שמה קברו את־אברהם ואת שרה אשתו מה קברו את־יצחק ואת רבקה אשתו ושמה קברתי את־לאה מקנה השדה והמערה אשר־בו מאת בני־חת (''Ani ne'esaf el ammi kivru oti el avotai el hamme'arah asher bisdeh efrovn bamme'arah asher bisdeh hammachpelah asher al penei mamre be'eretz kena'an asher kanah avraham et hassadeh me'et efron hachitti la'achuzzat kaver shammah kaveru et avraham ve'et sarah ishtov mah kaveru et yitzchak ve'et rivkah ishtov veshammah kavarti et le'ah mikneh hassadeh vehamme'arah asher bov me'et benei chet'')
** Translation: I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah. The field and the cave that is there were purchased from the sons of Heth.
** Who: [[w:Jacob|Jacob]].

* That picture is awful dusty.
** Who: [[w:Jesse James|Jesse James]]
** While in his home, James climbed on a chair to dust a framed picture hanging on the wall. When he turned around, he was shot in the back of the head by Robert Ford, his former associate.

* אל תפחדי מפרושים, ולא ממי מאלה שאינם פרושים, אם לא צבועים כמו פרושים, שמעשיהם כמעשה זמרי ומבקשים שכר כפנחס (''Al tifkhadi maPerushim, v'lo mimmi sh'einam Perushim, im lo tzu'im Perushim, shemma'aseihem k'ma'ase Zimri um'vaqqeshim sakar k'Finekhas'')
** Translation: Do not be afraid of the Pharisees, nor those who are not Pharisees, rather, the hypocrites who appear like Pharisees, as their actions are like the act of Zimri, and they request a reward like Phinehas.
** Who: [[w:Jannaeus|Alexander Jannaeus]], second king of Hasmonean Judea

* I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies.
** Who: [[w:Derek Jarman|Derek Jarman]]

* ''Allahu Akbar.''
* Translation: Allah is the greatest.
** Who: [[Ziad Jarrah]], hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93.
*** Note: Jarrah repeatedly said these words as Flight 93 was falling towards the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania and kept saying them until the plane crashed.

* I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.
** Who: [[Alfred Jarry]], absurdist writer and playwright.
*** Note: These last words, for a time, were considered a final expression of his absurdist humor; a doctor asserted that they were perfectly understandable due to his dehydration.

* "Is it the Fourth?" [''Doctor Robley Dunglison: "It soon will be."''] I resign my spirit to God, my daughter to my country. Lord, now lettest Thou, Thy servant depart in peace.
** Who: [[Thomas Jefferson]], 3rd President of the United States.
** Jefferson died on July 4, 1826. This was the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the [[w:United States Declaration of Independence|American Declaration of Independence]], which was written mostly by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson's great political rival, [[John Adams]] — later a correspondent and friend — died the same day a few hours later. Among Adams' last words were the utterance of Thomas Jefferson's name.

* מרמה אחזיה (''Mirmah Akhazya'')
* Translation: This is treachery, Ahaziah!
** Who: [[w:Joram of Israel|Joram of Israel]]

* Finally this evening, a brief note about change. Some of you have noticed in the last several days that I was not covering the Pope. While my colleagues at ABC did a superb job, I did think a few times I was missing out. However, as some of you now know, I have learned in the last couple of days that I have lung cancer. Yes, I was a smoker until about 20 years ago, and I was weak and I smoked over 9/11. But whatever the reason, the news does slow you down a bit. I have been reminding my colleagues today, who've all been incredibly supportive, that almost 10,000,000 Americans are already living with cancer, and I have a lot to learn from them. And "living" is the key word. The National Cancer Institute says that we are survivors from the moment of diagnosis. I will continue to do the broadcast, on good days; my voice will not always be like this! Certainly it's been a long time, and I hope it goes without saying that a journalist who doesn't value deeply the audience's loyalty should be in another line of work. To be perfectly honest I'm a little surprised at the kindness today from so many people, that's not intended as false modesty, but even I was taken aback by how far and how fast news travels. Finally, I wonder if other men and women ask their doctors right away, "Okay, Doc, when does the hair go?" At any rate, that's it for now on ''World News Tonight''. Have a good evening; I'm Peter Jennings. Thanks, and good night.
**Who: [[Peter Jennings]], Canadian-American journalist and news anchor; longtime host of ABC's ''World News Tonight''.
** Note: Said this during his final broadcast four months before his death from lung cancer on August 7, 2005. Although these are not his actual last words, they are the last words heard by the public.

* אבי באידיך סאם אנא רוחי הדא (''Abi b'idhaich sa'eim ana rukhi hadei'')
* Translation: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. (Luke 23:46, quoting Psalm 31:5)
* אלהי אלהי למה שבקתני (''Elohi, Elohi, lama sabactani?'')
* Translation: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Mark 15:34 and Matthew 27:46, quoting Psalm 22:1)
* הא משׁלם (''Ha m'shalam'')
* Translation: It is finished. (John 19:30; utterance mentioned, but not quoted, in Matthew 27:50 and Mark 15:37)
** Who: [[Jesus]], messianic central figure of the religion of Christianity
**The exact sequence of events differs somewhat in details among the four canonical Gospels, making it unclear which was actually his last before his reported resurrection. Matthew, Mark and John all note an utterance that came after Jesus was offered vinegar to drink before his death; John reports it as meaning "it is finished," while Matthew and Mark only note that it is loud and unintelligible. The often cited vocalization of "Elohi" as "Eloi" in Matthew and Mark comes from the original Greek translation, as ancient Greek lacked the <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless glottal fricative|h]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> sound the Aramaic word uses. "Eloi" is also interchangeable with "Eli" (אלי), which is sometimes cited, and was noted to have caused a misunderstanding by bystanders who thought he was summoning the Old Testament prophet Elijah. The Matthew and Mark accounts come before the consumption of the vinegar and the loud utterance. Luke's account is mostly irreconcilable with the other three.

* ?השלום, זמרי הרג אדניו (''Hashalom Zimri hoger 'adonav?'')
* Translation: Peace, Zimri, murderer of your master?
** Who: [[w:Jezebel|Jezebel]]
*** Note: These words were spoken to Jehu, the general of Israel's army, who had killed the reigning kings of Israel and Judah, the former being Jezebel's husband, after the prophet Elisha had secretly anointed him king. Zimri was the name of another great Israelite general, who around 40 years prior had also murdered the reigning king and took the throne, reigning for a week before committing suicide.

* 我死，现在知道我是谁. (''Wǒ sǐ, xiànzài zhīdào wǒ shì shéi.'')
** Translation: I die knowing now who I am.
** Who: [[Billy Ji]], Chinese psychoanalyst.
*** Note: Died of liver cirrhosis.

*Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.
** Who: [[Steve Jobs]], Apple CEO.
*** Note: His last statement was recorded by his sister on his deathbed. [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?_r=1 NewYorkTimes].

* ''Ich grüße dich, mein ewiges Deutschland.''
** Translation: I greet you, my eternal Germany.
** Sometimes reported as: My greetings to you, my Germany.
** Who: [[Alfred Jodl]], Nazi military officer
*** Note: Jodl made this statement before he was executed by hanging.

* I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.
** Who: [[Pope John Paul I]], an hour before he died of a heart attack.

* ''Pozwólcie mi pójść do domu Ojca''
* ''Amen.''
** Translation:
***Let me go to the house of the Father
***Amen
** Who: [[Pope John Paul II]], uttered in his papal apartments, six hours before he died, with the latter before the moment of death.

* ''Absit, ut rex Boemie fugeret, sed illuc me ducite, ubi maior strepitus certaminis vigeret, Dominus sit nobiscum, nil timeamus, tantum filium meum diligenter custodite.''
** Translation: Far from it that the King of Bohemia flee, but to get there lead me where there is greatest uproar of the fight in vigor; the Lord is with us, we must fear nothing, only keep my son diligently.
** Who: [[w:John I of Bohemia|John the Blind of Luxembourg]] at [[w:Battle of Crécy|the Battle of Crécy]]
*** Note: Often paraphrased to Never by God will that be that a King of Bohemia flees from the battle., or some variant.

* My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
** Who: [[Andrew Johnson]], 17th President of the United States
*** Note: Spoken to his granddaughter, who was about to send for a doctor.

* P.S. I LOVE MY FRIENDS YOU ARE FAMILY ! GOD LOVES ALL PEOPLE NO MATTER WHAT !
** Who: [[w:Dan Johnson (Kentucky politician)|Dan Johnson]], Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
*** Note: Taken from a suicide note from Facebook. On December 13, 2017, Dan shot himself in the head following allegations in which he was accused of having molested a woman at his church.

* Send Mike immediately!
** Who: [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], 36th President of the United States
*** Note: Said to a Secret Service agent over an in-house telephone. He had suffered a heart attack, and called for Mike Howard, another Secret Service agent, before losing consciousness.

* God Bless you, my dear!
** Who: [[Samuel Johnson]]

* Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it! This is —
** Who: [[w:David A. Johnston|David A. Johnston]], volcanologist with the [[w:United States Geological Survey|United States Geological Survey]]. Last radio transmission before being killed in the May 1980 eruption of [[w:Mount St. Helens|Mount St. Helens]].

* ''Aludni akarok.''
** Translation: I want to sleep.
** Who: [[w:Mór Jókai|Mór Jókai]]
** As quoted in ''Dictionary of Last Words'' (1955) by Edward S. LeComte. LeComte cites ''Budapest Daily Szabad Ifjusag'' May 4, 1954, on authority of Mr. Istan Csicsery-Ronay. {{cite book |title= Dictionary of Last Words|last= LeComte|first= Edward S. |year= 1954|publisher= Philosophical Library.|location= New York, NY}}.

* This is it! I'm going. I'm going.
** Who: [[w:Al Jolson|Al Jolson]]

* HMO's are in it for the money. Live free, love safe or die.
** Who: [[w:Daniel V. Jones|Daniel V. Jones]], on a banner he presented on a Los Angeles freeway shortly before shooting himself on live television in May 1998. Jones had previously expressed resentment at his HMO for their inadequate treatment of his cancer and HIV-infection.

* ''...take our life from us, we laid it down, we got tired. We didn't commit suicide. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.''
** Who: [[w:Jim Jones|Reverend James Warren "Jim" Jones]], founder and leader of the [[w:Peoples Temple|Peoples Temple]].
*** Note: These words were part of a recording on an audiocassette found at the People's Temple compound in Guyana after the mass suicide of 1978. While he may have shot himself after the tape ran out, these were his last recorded words. [http://www.archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16 The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042)] at the [http://www.archive.org Internet Archive].

* 매우 고통스러운, 매우 고통스러운, 나는 액체가 뿌려졌다. (''Maeu gotongseuleoun, maeu gotongseuleoun, naneun aegchega pulyeojyeosda.'')
**Translation: Very painful, very painful, I was sprayed with liquid.
** Who: [[w:Kim Jong-nam|Kim Jong-nam]], half-brother of [[w:Kim Jong-un|Kim Jong-un]].
*** Note: On February 13th, 2017, Jong-nam was attacked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport by two women with a VX nerve agent. He then staggered around 15m to a service counter for help and uttered these words before collapsing and being taken to a hospital, where he later died. [https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2887520/last-words-brother-north-korea-assassination-kim-jong-nam/]

* Does nobody understand?
** Who: [[James Joyce]]

* In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war, and I defy the power of darkness which they represent. I warn the British people against the crushing imperialism of the Soviet Union. May Britain be great once again and the hour of the greatest danger in the West may the standard be raised from the dust, crowned with the words – you have conquered nevertheless. I am proud to die for my ideals and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.
** Who: [[w:William Joyce|William Joyce]], Irish-American fascist, Nazi collaborationist and propaganda broadcaster known as "[[w:Lord Haw-Haw|Lord Haw-Haw]]"
*** Note: Joyce made this statement prior to his execution by hanging for treason.

* ''Jésus, Jésus, Jésus!''
** Translation: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!
** Who: [[Joan of Arc]]

* Ηρακλής! Πώς κρύο λουτρό σας! (''Herakles! Pos krýo loutró sas!'')
** Translation: Hercules! How cold your bath is!
** Who: [[w:Jugurtha|Jugurtha]], King of Numidia.
*** Note: He spoke this as he was thrown into a Roman dungeon to starve to death. There is a play on words, a "Bath of Hercules" being an ancient Greek expression for a hot spring.

* ''Vicisti, Galilæ'' ''or'' ''νενίκηκάς με, Γαλιλαῖε'' ''(neníkikás me, Galilaíe)''
** Translation: You have won, Galilean.
** Who: [[Julian (emperor)|Emperor Julian]], having attempted to reverse the official endorsement of Christianity by the Roman Empire.

* [''"Is the man in the bathroom wit u"''] He's a terror. Yes.
** Who: Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, a victim of the Orlando nightclub shooting
*** Note: Justice send these as a text message to his mother before he was shot by the gunman. He died from his injuries.

=K=
* ''Espero que la salida sea alegre y espero no volver jamás.''
** Translation: I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return.
** Who: [[Frida Kahlo]]

* ''Aue, he kanaka au, eia i loko o ke kukonukonu o ka maʻi!''
** Translation: Alas, I am a man who is seriously ill!
** Who: [[w:Kalākaua|Kalākaua]], last King and second-to-last monarch of Hawaii
*** Note: "Tell my people I tried," which was more popularly mistaken as his last words, was actually a quote invented by Eugene Burns in his biography of Kalākaua, ''The Last King of Paradise'', published in 1952.

*''E ʻoni wale no ʻoukou i kuʻu pono ʻaʻole e pau.''
** Translation: Endless is the good that I have given you to enjoy.
** Who: [[w:Kamehameha I|Kamehameha I]], first King of Hawaii

*Nearly 100 frank opinions every day. I couldn't deny that I was hurt. I'm dead. Thank you for giving me a mother. It was a life I wanted to be loved. Thank you to everyone who supported me. I love it. I'm weak, I'm sorry. I don't want to be a human anymore. It was a life I wanted to be loved. Thank you, everyone. I love you. Bye.
** Who: [[w:Hana Kimura|Hana Kimura]], professional wrestler
** Kimura's suicide note.

*''Es ist gut.''
** Translation: It is good.
** Who: [[Immanuel Kant]]

*Don't worry...it's not loaded...
** Who: [[w:Terry Kath|Terry Kath]], rock musician in the band Chicago
** Context: As he put the gun he was cleaning to his head and pulled the trigger. Though the gun had no magazine in it, Kath was unaware that a bullet was already in the chamber; he was killed instantly.

* ''Ille facit.''
** Translation: He will do it.
** Who: [[w:Karl IX of Sweden |Karl IX of Sweden]]
*** Note: Said about his son, Gustavus Adolphus the Great, who made Sweden a great power.

* ''Herre Jesus, anamma min ande.''
** Translation: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
** Who: [[w:Karl XI of Sweden |Karl XI of Sweden]]

* ''Var intet rädd.''
** Translation: Don't be afraid.
** Who: [[w:Karl XII of Sweden |Karl XII of Sweden]]
*** Note: Said to his officers when they expressed concern about him being in the trenches under the siege of Fredriksten. Minutes later he was killed.

* ''Oscar, Oscar, nous nous défendrons.''
** Translation: Oscar, Oscar, we shall defend ourselves.
** Who: [[w:Charles XIV John|Karl XIV Johan]] of Sweden-Norway
*** Note: Said to his son, crown prince Oscar.

* ''Kommer jag att plågas mycket?''
** Translation: Will I be in much pain?
** Who: Karl XV of Sweden-Norway

* Walter Pidgeon.
** Who: English actor [[w:Boris Karloff|Boris Karloff]]
*** These were the final words he was heard to speak as he drifted in and out of sleep on his final day. It confused and distressed his wife Evie, since Karloff hadn't mentioned Pidgeon in years.

* Ah, well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.
** Who: Australian bush ranger [[Ned Kelly]] as he was hanged in the Melbourne Jail on November 11th 1880.

* I wish I could go with you.
** Who: [[Walt Kelly]], Cartoonist
*** Note: Spoken to his wife, Selby Kelly, as she visited him in the hospital. According to her, he was lapsing in and out of consciousness. She told him she was going for coffee, unaware if he could hear her, and he said those words. She stayed by his side until he died from diabetes complications.

* No, you certainly can't.
** Who: [[John F. Kennedy]], 35th President of the United States.
*** Note: Said in response to [[w:Nellie Connally|Nellie Connally]], who had commented "You certainly can't say Dallas doesn't love you, Mr. President.", in reference to Dallas' heavy Republican presence.

* Don't lift me.
** Who: [[Robert F. Kennedy]]
*** Note: Spoken to medical attendants when lifted onto a stretcher and seconds before he fell into a coma. He died in the early morning hours of the next day.

* These last few days are among the happiest I've ever ignored.
** Who: [[w:Douglas Kenney|Douglas Kenney]], founder of National Lampoon magazine
*** Note: Written on the back of a hotel receipt, with a bunch of random thoughts and the reasons he loved his girlfriend.

* ''Allein durch die Verdienste Jesu Christi, unseres Erlösers.''
** Translation: Solely by the merits of Jesus Christ, Our Saviour.
** Who: [[Johannes Kepler]]

* Stella, I'm bleeding...Help me...Stella, I love you.
**Who: [[Jack Kerouac]]
*** Note: These were his last known words to his wife Stella, shortly after starting to hemorrhage following decades of heavy drinking, and while on his way to St. Anthony's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, where he would die early the next morning, October 21, 1969

* I'll be in Hell before you start breakfast! Let her rip!
** Who: [[w:Tom Ketchum|Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum]], notorious train robber
*** Note: Said after springing up the gallow steps to his execution; the rope was too long, and he was decapitated. [http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=12112][http://therecord.blogs.com/it_gets_weirder/2006/10/exit_strategies.html]

* Climb to one five thousand.
** Who: Ralph G. Kevorkian, captain aboard [[w:TWA Flight 800|TWA Flight 800]].
*** Note: Routine acknowledgement of ATC instructions from Boston Center, ordering the flight to climb to 15000 feet. Forty-four seconds later, a short circuit ignited fuel vapors from the plane's central fuel tank, blowing up the aircraft mid-flight.

* I should have drunk more Champagne.
** Who: [[John-Maynard Keynes]]

*I'm suffocating...take this bag off my head! I'm claustrophobic!
** Who: [[w:Jamal Khashoggi|Jamal Khashoggi]]
*** Note: These were the words that Khashoggi allegedly said as he was being tortured by Saudi Arabian government agents inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Some accounts claim that his last words were simply "I cannot breathe."

* Never regret that you lived in stormy times and worked with me in the Central Committee. We will yet be remembered!
** Who: [[w:Nikita Khrushchev|Nikita Khrushchev]]
*** Note: Spoken to his son-in-law and former aide Alexei Adzhubei mere days before he died in hospital of a heart attack.

* I love you. Take care of the boys.
** Who: [[Larry King]]
*** Note: Spoken to his wife Shawn before his life was taken by sepsis.

* Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight — play it real pretty.
** Who: [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]

* I don't want to die. I don't want to die.
* But why?
* Okay, Okay, Okay.
** Who: [[w:Sam Kinison|Sam Kinison]]
*** Note: Words spoken by the comedian as he lay on the ground after a car wreck. Witnesses have reported that it was like he was having a conversation with someone he knew. Whatever voice was talking to him gave him the right answer and he just relaxed with it. He said it so sweet, like he was "talking to someone he loved." Kinson then lost consciousness, and efforts to resuscitate him failed. He eventually died at the scene from internal injuries, at the age of just 38 years old.

* ''Minä elän.''
** Translation: I live.
** Who: [[Aleksis Kivi]]

* じゃ、お先に。 (''Ja, osakini.'')
** Translation: Now excuse me, I have to go.
** Who: [[w:Satoshi Kon|Satoshi Kon]]
*** Note: The last sentence written out in a long letter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://konstone.s-kon.net/modules/notebook/archives/565|title=NOTEBOOK »NOTEBOOK» ブログアーカイブ » さようなら - KON'S TONE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.makikoitoh.com/journal/satoshi-kons-last-words|title=Satoshi Kon's last words | Makiko Itoh : Not a nameless cat.}}</ref>

* Tape ''Seinfeld'' for me.
** Who: [[w:Harvey Korman|Harvey Korman]]

* I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life—complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.
** Who: [[Charles Krauthammer]]
** From his farewell letter, two weeks before his death from abdominal cancer

* May this day bring you rest and peace.
** Who: [[w:Cheslie Kryst|Cheslie Kryst]], 2019 Miss USA
** From her last Instagram post, the day she committed apparent suicide by jumping from a 29-story building.

* 私の心と魂は帝国の運命となるでしょう。 (''Watashi no kokoro to tamashī wa teikoku no unmei to narudeshou.'')
** Translation: My heart and soul will be with the fate of the Imperial nation.
** Who: [[w:Tadamichi Kuribayashi|Tadamichi Kuribayashi]]
** context: Although nobody knows exactly how Kuribayashi died, these are the final lines of his last message to Imperial Headquarters.

* ''Sag mir, nachdem ich meinen Kopf abgehackt habe, werde ich wenigstens für einen Moment das Geräusch meines eigenen Blutes hören können, das aus meinem Halsstumpf sprudelt? Das wäre die Freude, alle Freuden zu beenden.''
** Translation: Tell me, after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.
** Who: [[w:Peter Kürten|Peter Kürten]]

* ''Vurmayın öldüm!''
** Translation: Don't hit me, I am dying!
*** Who: [[Ali İsmail Korkmaz]], killed with lynch by government supporter civillians and police during the [[w:Gezi Park protests|Gezi Park protests]] in [[w:Eskişehir|Eskişehir]], Turkey

=L=
* "Write about yourself—nothing else half so much interests your affectionate ⁠"L. E. Maclean."
** Who: [[w:Letitia Elizabeth Landon|Letitia Elizabeth Landon]]
*** Note: Close of a letter written shortly before her sudden death from a seizure.

* You're right. It's time. I love you all.
** Who: [[w:Michael Landon|Michael Landon]]
*** Note: In response to his son, who told him it was time to let go and move on.

* I must get to the station.
** Who: [[w:Cosmo Lang|Cosmo Lang]]

* I'm a fucking doctor.
** Who: [[R. D. Laing]]
**He suffered a fatal heart attack in public, and as people gathered round the spot someone said 'Get a doctor.'

* I've had the very best life. I have tasted beauty.
** Who: [[w:Scatman John|John Larkin]], a.k.a. "Scatman John"

* I am going to the inevitable.
** Who: [[Philip Larkin]]

* We're approaching the intersection! We're approaching the intersection! We're approaching the intersection! Hold on. Pray. Oh shoot, there's- oh! Oh! Oh! OH-
** Who: Chris Lastrella
*** Note: Lastrella contacted 911 after the Lexus in which he, his sister Cleofe, and her husband and daughter were travelling in began to accelerate uncontrollably. The vehicle approached the end of the freeway at approximately 120mph, collided with a turning vehicle, and crashed into a dirt embankment. All four occupants were killed. Toyota later recalled 4.5 million vehicles owing to "sticky accelerators" on floor mats.

* I wish I was skiing. [''Nurse: "Oh, Mr. Laurel, do you ski?"''] No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing.
** Who: [[w:Stan Laurel|Stan Laurel]], before dying of a heart attack.

* Love y'all. Peace.
** Who: [[w:Chyna|Joanie "Chyna" Laurer]]
*** Note: The last known words that were spoken at the end of a video blog posted on her YouTube account.

* Tell the men to fire faster! Don't give up the ship! Fight her till she sinks!
** Who: [[w:James Lawrence|James Lawrence]], later used as naval ensign by his friend [[Oliver Hazard Perry|Commodore Perry]]. According to ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989), the only documented source is the blue battle-flag inscribed with these words ordered and used by [[Oliver Hazard Perry]] as a signal during the battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. Although popularly attributed to Captain James Lawrence as his dying words during a battle with a British frigate off the coast of Boston on June 1, 1813, there remains the possibility these words were not his, but those of someone reporting the battle. For other attributed sources and theories, see Burton Stevenson, ed., ''Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases'' (1965), p. 2091; Charles C. Bombaugh, ''Facts and Fancies for the Curious'' (1905), p. 388–89; William S. Walsh, ''Hand-Book of Literary Curiosities'' (1929), p. 1004–5; ''Dictionary of American History'' (1976), rev. ed., vol. 2, p. 364; and ''Motor Boating'' (October 1965), p. 72.

* My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
** Who: Hon. [[w:Jack Layton|Jack Layton]], last lines of his final letter to Canadians, written two days before he died and released upon his death

* Beautiful.
** Who: [[Timothy Leary]]
*** Note: Leary had repeatedly said "Why not." with various inflections prior to this, these are often reported as his final words.

* Katie, Katie, look... it'll be fine, you know, I just need to get some sleep.
** Who: [[Heath Ledger]]
*** Note: According to his father, Ledger's sister was on the phone with the actor, telling him it's a bad idea to mix sleeping pills with prescriptions. He died shortly after he did just that.

* Hello and greetings to you all, wherever you may be. And thank you, as always, for your appreciation and help during my life as an actor.
** Who: [[Christopher Lee]]
*** Note: Spoken in a video released shortly before his death in June 2015.

* Tell [[w:A.P. Hill|Hill]] he must come up! Strike the tent.
** Who: [[Robert E. Lee]]
*** Note: His last words are debated, as his stroke has resulted in aphasia, possibly rendering him unable to speak.

* God Bless. Take care my boy, Roy.
** Who: [[Stan Lee]]

* Вот собака. (''Vot sobaka.'')
** Translation: Good dog.
*** Who: [[Vladimir Lenin]], Russian communist statesman and revolutionary.
*** Note: This was spoken to his dog, who brought him a dead bird.

* Yes, I am.
* I'm shot. I'm shot.
** Who: [[John Lennon]]
*** Note: Whilst sitting in the back of a police car on the way to the hospital after the officers had asked him if he was John Lennon. While widely reported highly likely doubtful. "Yes, I am," in response to, "Are you John Lennon?" is frequently cited as Lennon's "Last Words." The myth is based on the story that the police officer did not recognize someone as famous as John Lennon (and Yoko would have been present too). This is actually a restatement or twisting of the question the officer did likely ask: "Do you know who you are" which would have been an attempt to determine Lennon's level of consciousness. Different versions have him answering or not in different manners, some state he said he was John Lennon. That is doubtful, Lennon's mouth was bleeding profusely at this point. More likely, the alternative version is accurate, that Lennon slightly nodded (or appeared to nod) and could only manage a gurgling sound from his throat before he lost consciousness totally. This concurs with reports of levels of severity of his injuries. Lennon's blood loss was so great, before the police arrived that the concierge at The Dakota realizing the severity of the injuries, simply covered Lennon with his uniform's jacket and removed his blood covered glasses then summoned police. Also, Lennon's last words of "I'm shot" were spoken seconds after he was shot as he staggered a number of steps toward the lobby of the Dakota. Sources for this include discussion in the Last Words reference book, Last Words of Notable People -- Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History by William B. Brahms which also cites the Lennon biography, John Ono Lennon Volume 2, 1967-1980 by Ray Coleman ). {{cite book |title= Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History|last= Brahms|first= William B. |year= 2010|publisher= [[Reference Desk Press, Inc]]|location= Haddonfield, NJ|isbn= 978-09765325-2-1|page= 399}}; {{cite book |title= John Ono Lennon Volume 2, 1967-1980 |last= Coleman|first= Ray |year= 1984|publisher= [[Sidgwick & Jackson]]|location= London|isbn= 978-07088274-0-6}}.

* Ah, shit.
** Who: [[w:Marc Lépine|Marc Lépine]], perpetrator of the [[w:École Polytechnique massacre|École Polytechnique massacre]].
*** Note: Heard to have said these words shortly after stabbing his final victim, before committing suicide using his own rifle.

* ''Anna viiniä.''
** Translation: Give me wine.
** Who: [[w:Juice Leskinen|Pauli Matti Juhani "Juice" Leskinen]], Finnish musician, songwriter and poet.
*** Note: According to his wife, Leskinen said these words to her before he was taken into an ambulance, where he lost consciousness and died later in a hospital.

*So hard to die.
**Who: [[w:Meriwether Lewis|Meriwether Lewis]]

*It's complete surrender.
**Who: [[w:Eric Liddell|Eric Liddell]]

* ''Opfer müssen gebracht werden!''
** Translation: Sacrifices must be made!
** Who: [[Otto Lilienthal]] pioneer of human aviation, after on 9 August 1896 a gust of wind fractured his wing and he fell from a height of 17 m (56 ft), breaking his spine. These were his last words to his brother before he succumbed to the injury.

* I love you, too. Big time.
** Who: [[Rush Limbaugh]], American radio host and political commentator.
** To his brother [[w:David Limbaugh|David Limbaugh]], shortly before losing consciousness for the final time.<ref>Limbaugh, David. [https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2021/04/09/goodbye-to-my-brother--for-now-n2587628 Goodbye to my brother -- for now]. ''Townhall.com'' (Salem Web Network). Retrieved April 10, 2021.</ref>

* Dad, Dad, someone is shooting.
** Who: [[w:2011 Norway attacks|Gunnar Linaker]]
*** Note: Linaker, 23, was calling his father from the Labor Youth Party camp in Norway on July 22, 2011 when he noticed [[w:Anders Behring Breivik|a gunman]] shooting before he hung up. Linaker was among the 69 victims in the shooting.

* She won't think anything about it.
** Who: [[Abraham Lincoln]], 16th President of the United States, as quoted in ''Famous Last Words‎'' (1961) by Barnaby Conrad
*** Note: Stated after Mary Lincoln had asked him what Clara Harris sitting next to them might think of them holding hands. A secondary account is offered by one of Lincoln's confidants, the Reverend Noyes W. Miner, who officiated the president's funeral, who claimed that Mary had told him Lincoln's final words expressed a desire to visit the 'Holy Land': "How I should like to visit Jeru(salem).", with Lincoln being shot in the middle of the word "Jerusalem".

* Keep up the fire!
** Who: U.S. Army Colonel [[w:Emerson H. Liscum|Emerson H. Liscum]], commander of the [[w:9th Infantry Regiment (United States)|9th Infantry Regiment]], directing his troops after being fatally wounded during the [[w:Battle of Tientsin|Battle of Tientsin]] in China, 1900
*** Note: Liscum's last words became the official motto of the 9th Infantry Regiment.

* The bastards got me, but they won't get everybody.
** Who: [[w:Alexander Litvinenko|Alexander Litvinenko]], whistleblowing former Russian spy, who was poisoned in a London sushi bar.
*** Note: Said in an interview on [[November 23]], 2006, hours before his death. (''The Times'', [[November 24]], 2006)

* I think I'm going to make it!
** Who: [[w:Richard Loeb|Richard Loeb]], half of the famous murderers Leopold and Loeb; said after being slashed ninety times with a razor by a fellow inmate.

* Hey - what's happening here?
** Who: Captain Robert Loft of [[w:Eastern Air Lines Flight 401|Eastern Air Lines flight 401]]
*** Note: The December 29, 1972 crash of Eastern Air Lines flight 401 was a result of the flight crew's failure to recognize a deactivation of the autopilot during their attempt to troubleshoot a malfunction of the landing gear position indicator system. As a result, the flight gradually lost altitude while the flight crew was preoccupied and eventually crashed. It was the first crash of a wide-body aircraft and, at the time, the deadliest in the United States.

* ''Muero con mi patria!''
** Translation: I die with my country!
** Who: [[w:Francisco Solano Lopez|Francisco Solano Lopez]]
*** Note: Died during the Battle of Cerro Cora on March 1, 1870.

* This is for you!
** Who: Ricardo López, the "Björk stalker"
*** Note: López, a crazed Björk fan disgruntled by her relationship with Goldie, recorded a video diary detailing his obsession and plans to kill Björk with a letter bomb. In the last videotape, López mailed the bomb and planned to kill himself to avoid arrest. Towards the end of the video, López played the song "I Remember You", uttered his last words at the end of the song, and shot himself in the mouth.

* Allah, save this country! ''Pakistan zindabad!''
** Translation: "Pakistan zindabad" means "Long live Pakistan."
** Who: [[w:Liaquat Ali Khan|Liaquat Ali Khan]], first Prime Minister of Pakistan, spoke to the nation before being shot.

* Don't let me die, I have got so much to do.
** Who: [[Huey Long]], "The Kingfish", American politician, Governor of and Senator from Louisiana

* ''Huz! Huz!!''
** Translation: Get out! Get out!
** Who: [[w:Louis the Pious|Louis the Pious]], second Carolingian emperor

* ''Je m'en vais, mais l'État demeurera toujours.''
** Translation: I am going, but the State shall always remain.
** Who: [[Louis XIV]] of France
*** Note: Another biographer has him saying "Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?".

* I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
** Who: [[w:Louis XVI|Louis XVI]] of France, d. January 21, 1793
*** Note: He was executed by guillotine.

* A King should die standing.
** Who: [[w:Louis XVIII|Louis XVIII]], King of France, d. 1824
*** Note: Louis XVIII suffered from a severe case of gout, which worsened over the years. At the end of his life, the King was wheelchair-bound most of the time.

* Sometimes the pain is unbearable.
** Who: [[w: H.P. Lovecraft|Howard Phillips Lovecraft]], American author considered to be one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.
*** Note: He spent the last few years of his life dying of malnourishment and cancer of the small intestine.

* Tell them, I died game.
** Who: [[w:Frank Gardiner–Ben Hall gang|Fred Lowry]], Australian bushranger d. 1863
*** Note: Lowry died from his wounds after shootout with Police near Crookwell, New South Wales.

* Never drive at night.
** Who: [[w:Joseph Lucas|Joseph Lucas]], "The Prince of Darkness", Founder of [[w:Lucas Industries|Lucas Industries]], manufacturer of automotive electrical components such as alternators, headlights, etc. which were notorious for unreliability in the early days of automotive engineering.

* ''Wir sind Bettler... hoc est verum.''
** Translation: We are beggars: this is true.
** Who: [[Martin Luther]]
*** Note: The phrase "We are beggars" is in German, whereas "this is true" is in Latin.

* Life!
** Who: [[w:Peg Lynch|Peg Lynch]], actress and comedienne. [http://www.peglynch.com/biography/]

=M=
* Boy, fetch my fiddle.
** Who: [[Robert Roy MacGregor]], Scottish folk hero and outlaw.

* [''Niece: "What is the matter, Uncle James?"''] Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear.
** Who: [[James Madison]], 4th President of the United States.
*** Note: Some accounts have his final words written as "I always talk better lying down."

* ''Mozart! Mozart!''
** Who: [[Gustav Mahler]], according to his wife, Alma.

* ''¡Esto lo ha dispuesto así el Dios de Israel para verme cara a cara desde el cielo!''
** Translation: This is how the God of Israel has arranged to see me face to face from heaven!
** Who: [[w:Francisco Maldonado da Silva|Francisco Maldonado]], a Jewish surgeon and writer killed during the Peruvian Inquisition.
*** Note: On the day of his execution, a great storm devastated Lima.
*** The ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' gives his last words as, This is the will of the Lord. I shall see the God of Israel face to face.[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=715&letter=S]

* Cheerio!
** Who: Gangster Antonio Mancini when [[Albert Pierrepoint]] had put the noose on his neck.

* I'm okay!
** Who: [[w:Field Marshal|Field Marshal]] [[w:Sam Manekshaw|Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw]], the first of only two Indian military officers to hold the highest rank of Field Marshal in the [[w:Indian Army|Indian Army]].

* I'm the most famous human being not only that is alive but the most famous human being that has ever lived. And I'm not even dead yet. What do you think is gonna happen when I die?
** Who: [[Charles Manson]], American cult leader and musician

* ''Aidez-moi, ma chère amie!''
** Translation: Help me, my dear friend!
** Who: [[Jean-Paul Marat]], Jacobin publisher of ''L'Ami du Peuple'' (The People's Friend), just after being stabbed by Charlotte Corday

* I feel great.
** Who: [[w:Pete Maravich|Pete Maravich]], American basketball player
*** Note: Said seconds before his death at a pickup basketball game.

* After opening the [[w:Flamingo Las Vegas|@FlamingoVegas]] 71 years ago this week, I always considered myself a Flamingo Girl, and worked there many times. I worked other casino showrooms, but only after I made sure it was okay with "the boys" at the Flamingo.
** Who: [[w:Rose Marie|Rose Marie]], American entertainer; last tweet on her Twitter account before her death was reported via the same medium four hours later.

* ''Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès.''
** Translation: Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.
** Who: [[Marie Antoinette]], Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria.
*** Note: As she approached the guillotine, convicted of treason and about to be beheaded, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner.

* Money can't buy life.
* On your way up, please take me up, on your way down, don't let me down.
** Who: [[Bob Marley]], Jamaican musician. Spoken to his sons Stephen & Ziggy.

* Jesus Christ was put to death on the false testimony of those who received money in exchange for the lies they told. Just the same, the state of Ohio has succeeded in its quest for my life by way of perjured testimony and false witnesses who were paid to tell the lies they did. However, there has never been any hate nor desire of revenge in my heart for them, for I know God will repay those for each and every one of their sins that have gone forgotten.
** Who: [[w:Ernest Martin (murderer)|Ernest Martin]], American murderer executed June 18, 2003 for the murder of [[Cleveland]]-area store owner Robert Robinson.
*** Note: In the death chamber, Martin spoke about three minutes in what prison officials said was the longest final statement by a condemned inmate since Ohio resumed executions in 1999. The statements were not recorded. Here are some excerpts as transcribed by prison officials: "I know that God is in control and those who are here are not responsible. Just as Jesus Christ was lied on and slandered, so I have been treated the same way. I have no hatred. I know God is in control and I pray that he will forgive us of our sins, forgive the media people watching of their sins and all that they have done. As the Bible says, let those without sin cast the first stone. God forgave us all. To my family, I love you all. I know I did not live a good life. Thank God for allowing my sister and nephew to be here and brother Morgan for his support. Hug Momma for me. Take care family. Take care media. God bless you all."[http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/martin859.htm]

* Gentlemen, the uh, camper and the car sitting over to the south of me is covered. It's gonna get me, too. I can't get out of here...
** Who: HAM radio operator Jerry Martin.
*** Note: The final transmission of Jerry Martin, reporting on the eruption of [[Mount St. Helens]] {{cite |title=Memories, lessons from mountain's fury |author=Andre Stepankowsky |publisher=The Daily News |place=Longview, WA |date=17 May 2005 |accessdate=9 August 2010}}

* Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!
** Who: [[Groucho Marx]], American comedian and actor.

* Продолжай, убирайся! Последние слова для дураков, которые не сказали достаточно! (''Prodolzhay, ubiraysya! Posledniye slova dlya durakov, kotoryye ne skazali dostatochno!'')
** Translation: Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
** Who: [[Karl Marx]], asked by his housekeeper what his last words were.

* When I am dead, you will find Philip and Calais engraved on my heart.
** Who: [[Mary I of England]], related to her husband and the loss of Calais to France

* ''In manus tuas domine confido spiritum meum.''
** Translation: Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit
** Who: [[w:Mary I of Scotland|Mary I of Scotland]]
** See also: [[Jesus]]

* All right.
** Who: [[w:Bat Masterson|William Barclay "Bat" Masterson]], former Wild West gunfighter; he was asked by a fellow reporter of the New York Morning Telegraph about his health after he had been ill with a cold.
*** Note: His last written words, on his note pad for the column he was writing, were, No wonder these birds are flying high when they get that kind of money for an hour's work. Just think of an honest, hard-working farmer laboring from daylight to dark for forty years of his life, and lucky if he finishes with as much as one of these birds gets in an hour. Yet there are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.

* Never again. Never again.
** Who: [[w:Bill Masterton|Bill Masterton]]
*** Note: Said after he fell backwards and hit his head on the ice after being checked and lost consciousness, and died two days later. He wasn't wearing a helmet at the time; it would be 11 years before the NHL made helmets mandatory. He is currently the only NHL player to die from injuries sustained on the ice.

* ''Perdono a todos y pido a todos que me perdonen y que mi sangre, que está a punto de ser vertida, se derrame para el bien de este país. Voy a morir por una causa justa, la de la independencia y libertad de México. ¡Que mi sangre selle las desgracias de mi nueva patria! ¡Viva México!''
** Translation: I forgive everyone, beg that everyone forgives me as well, and wish that my blood, that is going to be shed now, will benefit the country. Long live Mexico!
** Who: Emperor [[w:Maximilian of Mexico|Maximilian of Mexico]] (executed)

* It wasn't worth it.
** Who: [[w:Louis B. Mayer|Louis B. Mayer]], film producer, d. October 29, 1957

* Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love. Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me... but would have taken so much more. The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type... Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!
** Who: [[w:Brittany Maynard|Brittany Maynard]], American woman with terminal brain cancer who decided that she would end her own life "when the time seemed right."
*** Note: Maynard, who advocated for the legalization of aid in dying, wrote this as her final post on Facebook before she took her own life.

* Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history. Farewell, fellow Americans. God bless you, and God bless America.
** Who: [[w:John McCain|John S. McCain III]], U.S. Navy Captain, POW, Senator from Arizona and 2008 Republican nominee for President.
***From a statement prepared during the final days of life, near the end of a prolonged bout with glioblastoma, and released after his death.

* I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
** Who: [[w:Christopher McCandless|Chris McCandless]], American wanderer and subject of the book ''[[w:Into the Wild|Into the Wild]]''. He wrote a final note on a page from Louis L'Amour's book, ''Education of a Wandering Man'', before dying of starvation on August 18th, 1992.

* Daddy flight, save your auxiliary tanks.
** Who: [[w:Thomas McGuire|Thomas McGuire]], fighter ace.
*** Note: He attempted to dogfight a Japanese [[w:Nakajima Ki-43|Nakajima Ki-43]] fighter aircraft on low altitude having failed to dump his aircraft's auxiliary tanks, with disastrous results - his aircraft stalled and crashed due to extra weight of the tanks.

* Good-bye, good-bye all. It's God's way. His will, not ours, be done.
** Who: [[William McKinley]], 25th President of the United States, assassinated in 1901

* We are holding our own.
** Who: [[w:Ernest M. McSorley|Ernest M. McSorley]], last captain of the ill-fated Laker-type freighter ''SS Edmund Fitzgerald''.
*** Note: McSorley was captain of the 729-foot Great Lakes freighter ''[[w:SS Edmund Fitzgerald|Edmund Fitzgerald]],'' which was in a storm on Lake Superior. Soon after he said these words, the ship sank and all twenty-nine men aboard were killed.

* I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.
** Who: [[w:Timothy McVeigh|Timothy McVeigh]], perpetrator of the [[w:Oklahoma City bombing|Oklahoma City bombing]].
*** Note: McVeigh chose to quote the final stanza from the poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley as his final words before being executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001.

* God bless Captain Vere!
** Who: [[Herman Melville]], author of [[Moby-Dick]]
*** Note: A reference from his then-unpublished novel Billy Budd, which was discovered on his desk after he died.

* Thank you.
** Who: [[Freddie Mercury]], lead singer of the British rock group [[w:Queen (band)|Queen]].<ref>https://gazette.com/news/queen-glamazon-freddie-mercury-s-long-time-assistant-reflects-on/article_7756562a-7ea9-5aa8-aee2-e46cf449fc97.html</ref><ref>https://au.news.yahoo.com/rahni-sadler-reports-freddie-mercurys-last-words-24244400.html</ref>.<ref>https://au.news.yahoo.com/rahni-sadler-reports-freddie-mercurys-last-words-24244400.html</ref>

* "Where are my equipment cooling circuit breakers?"
** Who: Hans-Jürgen Merten, captain of [[w:Helios Airways Flight 522|Helios Airways Flight 522]]
***Note: Shortly after the flight took off, the cabin began to depressurize, as the pressurisation system had not been set to "auto" after a pressurization leak check before takeoff. The flight crew, unaware of the issue, began to suffer from hypoxia. It is believed that Merten's last communication was made while suffering hypoxia's initial symptoms.

* It's all been rather lovely.
** Who: [[w:John Le Mesurier|John Le Mesurier]], before slipping into a final coma.

*V-1
** Who: Klaas Meurs
*** Note: Klaas Meurs was the First Officer of [[w:Tenerife airport disaster|KLM Flight 4805]], which crashed on take-off on March 27th 1977, killing 583 people when it collided with a Pan Am Boeing 747, killing all 248 on Flight 4805 (including Meurs) and 335 on the Pan Am Aircraft. His last words of "V-1" where the Aviation terminology used when an Aircraft is going too fast to cancel the take-off and must take-off. Eight seconds later, both planes collided.

* ''Io do la mia anima a Dio, il mio corpo alla terra, e i miei beni terreni al mio parente più prossimo, caricandoli per ricordare le sofferenze di Gesù Cristo.''
** Translation: I give my soul to God, my body to the Earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
** Who: [[Michelangelo]], Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

*Fandemonium.
** Who: [[w:Van Miller|Van Miller]], American radio and television sports announcer.
*** Note: Miller had been rendered unable to speak due to a stroke a week prior to his death and had been suffering from declining function for several months. That single word, a signature call of his from the 1990s, was reportedly the only thing he said after the stroke and before his death, as reported by a former co-worker of Miller's, [[w:WIVB-TV|WIVB-TV]]'s Jacquie Walker.

*Come on out.
** Who: [[Spike Milligan]], British comedian.

*Oh God, no! Help! Someone help!
** Who: [[w:Sal Mineo|Sal Mineo]], American actor.
*** Note: Stabbed to death.

* 動けない... (''Ugokenai...'')
** Translation: Cannot move...
** Who: [[w:Mitsuharu Misawa|Mitsuharu Misawa]], Japanese professional wrestler
*** Note: Misawa had taken a belly-to-back suplex from [[w:Akitoshi Saito|Akitoshi Saito]]. When the referee asked whether or not he could move, Misawa replied with the above response. Afterwards, he lost consciousness and was later taken to the hospital, where he died. The official cause of death was listed as a cervical spinal cord injury.

* 彼らは私のことを聞いたとは思わない。 (''Karera wa watashi no koto o kiita to wa omowanai.'')
** Translation: I don't think they even heard me.
** Who: [[Yukio Mishima]] (pseudonym of Kimitake Hiraoka), moments before committing ritual suicide ([[w:seppuku|seppuku]])
*** Note: He had addressed the garrison at the Ichigaya Camp, the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces, while his followers, the [[w:Tatenokai|Tatenokai]] or "Shield Society", held the Commander hostage. Mishima encouraged the soldiers to launch a military coup and restore the traditional powers of the Emperor. They responded with mocking jeers. Mishima shouted "Long Live the Emperor!" three times, went back inside, and spoke his last words under his breath before performing the ritual self-disembowelment. One of Mishima's followers, a 25-year-old named Masakatsu Morita, tried three times to ritually behead Mishima but failed; his head was finally severed by Hiroyasu Koga.

* It tastes bad.
** [[w:Margaret Mitchell|Margaret Mitchell]], upon being given a drink of orange juice while convalescing in a hospital.

* Why should I talk to you? I've just been talking with your boss.
** [[Wilson Mizner]], after talking to a priest.

* What the hell are we into? We're stuck in it!
** Who: Sten Molin, first officer aboard [[w:American Airlines Flight 587|American Airlines Flight 587]]
** Note: Said as the flight spun out of control following the separation of the stabilizer from the airplane. The plane crashed nine seconds later, killing all 260 passengers and crew (plus five civilians on the ground).

* I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.
** Who: [[James Monroe]], 5th President of the United States.
*** Note: Spoken to a friend about James Madison.

* Say good-bye to [[w:Patricia Kennedy Lawford|Pat]], say good-bye to [[John F. Kennedy|Jack]] and say good-bye to [[w:Peter Lawford|yourself]], because you're a nice guy.
** Who: [[Marilyn Monroe]] to actor Peter Lawford.

* It has all been very interesting.
** Who: [[w:Lady Mary Wortley Montagu|Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]], English aristocrat, letter writer and poet.
** Source: [[w:Clifton Fadiman|Clifton Fadiman]], ''Some Passing Remarks on Some Passing Remarks''

* Well, now I must go to meet God and try to explain all those men I killed at Alamein.
** Who: [[Bernard Montgomery]], British military commander of World War II.

* If you don't like it, you can fuck off!
** Who: [[w:Keith Moon|Keith Moon]], drummer for the British rock group [[w:The Who|The Who]]. He asked his girlfriend to cook him breakfast, but she complained and that made him angry. He died approximately six hours later.

* I can hear the music all around me.
** Who: [[w:Dudley Moore|Dudley Moore]], British actor.

*Mama.
** Who: [[w:Agnes Moorehead|Agnes Moorehead]], American actress.

* I need Kleenex.
** Who: [[w:Erin Moran|Erin Moran]], American actress.
** Likely written or typed, as Moran, due to throat cancer, had lost the ability to speak two months prior. She lost consciousness and died before her husband could return with the tissues.

* I think we're off here.
** Who: [[w:Lewis Moran|Lewis Moran]], Australian underworld figure.
** Lewis Moran was drinking at a bar with his friend and associate Bert Wrout. He knew he was a potential target for assassination as his two sons, Jason and Mark, were killed years before. He spotted the gunmen entering the bar and calmly uttered those final words ("off" being an underworld slang for "dead") before being shot in the head. Wrout was also shot, but survived.

* Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it.
** Who: [[w:Harry 'Breaker' Morant|Harry Morant]]
*** Note: Morant was court-martialed and executed by the British, charged with killing Boer prisoners. To the end he claimed to have been following orders.

* This hath not offended the king.
** Who: [[Thomas More]] at the execution block, moving his beard out of the way.

* I'm glad that's over.
** Who: [[w:Eric Morecambe|Eric Morecambe]], after going off stage after a solo performance at Stan Stennett's theatre, Tewkesbury, May 28, 1984.

* ''Señor, si he hecho bien, tú lo sabes, si mal, me acojo a tu misericordia.''
** Translation: Lord, if I have done well, You know it; if bad, I take refuge in Your infinite mercy.
** Who: [[w:José María Morelos|José María Morelos]], Mexican independence fighter (executed)

* ''Dios no muere!''
** Translation: God does not die!
** Who: [[w:Gabriel García Moreno|Gabriel García Moreno]], President of Ecuador
** Context: He had been attacked by assassins and had spoken these words after his attack. He reportedly had a favorite saying: "I am only a man who can be killed and replaced, but God does not die."

*Pam, are you still there?
**Who: [[Jim Morrison]], American poet and lead singer of the [[w:The Doors|Doors]]
**Spoken to his girlfriend [[w:Pamela Courson|Pamela Courson]] from the bathtub of his Paris apartment. He died there shortly thereafter.

*I should have asked for a stunt double!
**Who: [[w:Vic Morrow|Vic Morrow]], American actor
**Morrow said this before filming a challenging scene for ''Twilight Zone: The Movie'' with two children and a helicopter. During filming, the helicopter lost control, and fell on the actors. He and one of the two children were decapitated while the other was crushed by the falling helicopter.

* אשריך ישראל מי כמוך עם נושע ביהוה מגן עזרך ואשר־חרב גאותך ויכחשו איביך לך ואתה על־במותימו תדרך (''Cht'ashreicha yisra'el mi chamocha, am nosha ba-YHWH, magen ezrecha, va'asher-cherev ga'avatecha; veyikkachashu oyeveicha lach, ve'attah al-bamoteimo tidroch.'')
**Translation: Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample down their high places.
** Who: [[w:Moses|Moses]]
*** See also: [[Moses]]

* You take me back to Eagle Bridge and you'll get back your stethoscope.
** Who: [[Grandma Moses]], spoken to the physician whose stethoscope she took.

* ''Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meinen Lippen... Ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Erde ist.''
** Translation: The taste of death is upon my lips...I feel something, that is not of this earth.
** Who: [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]

* .اللَّهُمَّ الرَّفِيقَ الأَعْلَى. اللَّهُمَّ الرَّفِيقَ الأَعْلَى. اللَّهُمَّ الرَّفِيقَ الأَعْلَى (''allāhumma al-rafīq al-'a'lā. allāhumma al-rafīq al-'a'lā. allāhumma al-rafīq al-'a'lā.'')
** Translation: O Allah, the highest companions. O Allah, the highest companions. O Allah, the highest companions.
**Who: [[w:en:Muhammad|Muhammad]], Prophet of God in Islam
** See also: [[Muhammad]]

* ''Empiezo a creer que no pretendes contarme entre tus amigos.''
** Translation: I am starting to believe you are not intending to count me amongst your friends.
** Who: [[Pedro Muñoz Seca]] – Spanish playwright
** Context: Said when he was about to be executed by a squad during the Spanish Civil War.

* أنا سوف تغطى جلادي. (''ana sawf tughtaa jaladi.'')
** Translation: I shall overlive my executioner.
** Who: [[w:Omar Mukhtar|Omar Mukhtar]] (also Omar al-Mukhtar), Leader of the Libyan Resistance before being hanged by the Italian fascist Army in Libya, (16 September 1931).

* ''Soldati! Fai il tuo dovere! Dritto al cuore ma risparmia il viso. Fuoco!''
** Translation: Soldiers! Do your duty! Straight to the heart but spare the face. Fire!
** Who: [[w:Joachim Murat|Joachim Murat]], King of Naples sentenced to death for treason during the Napoleonic Wars.

*Mom, I'm dying.
**Who: [[w:Brittany Murphy|Brittany Murphy]], American actress.

* أنا مجروح، أنا مجروح، معدتي (''<nowiki>'</nowiki>ana majruh, 'ana majruh, mueadati'')
** Translation: I am wounded, I am wounded, my stomach.
** Who: [[w:Yaser Murtaja|Yasser Murtaja]], a journalist killed by Israeli forces during the [[w:2018 Gaza border protests|2018 Gaza border protests]].

* ''Sparami nel petto!''
** Translation: Shoot me in the chest!
** Who: [[Benito Mussolini]], just as he was shot by a partisan leader.

* Well, this is certainly a pleasant surprise.
** Who: [[w:Andrew Mutton|Andrew Mutton]]. (A mobster whose car was riddled with starter motor problems, remarked to his associate when the car started successfully first go. Moments later a bomb rigged to the ignition exploded, killing Andrew and wounding his associate)

=N=
* ''Biraz dinleneyim!''
**Translation: Let me rest a bit!
**Who: [[w:Namık Kemal|Namık Kemal]], Turkish poet

* Hello, brother.
** Who: [[w:Christchurch mosque shootings|Haji-Daoud Nabi]]
*** Note: Said to Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant, just before he opened fire. Nabi was the first victim of the shootings.

* ''Demek ki böyle ölünürmüş.''
** Translation: So, this is how we die.
**Who: [[w:Necip Fazıl Kısakürek|Necip Fazıl Kısakürek]], Turkish poet

* Некоторая бабочка уже на крыле. (''Nekotoraya babochka uzhe na kryle'')
** Translation: A certain butterfly is already on the wing.
** Who: [[Vladimir Nabokov]], poet.

* ''Lenger og lenger mot nord...''
** Translation: Further and further to the north...
** Who: [[Fridtjof Nansen]], Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
*** Note: The first sentence is commonly acknowledged version. The second one is according to his daughter.

* ''N'est-il pas vrai que nous n'étions pas lâches à Sedan?''
** Translation: Isn't it true that we weren't cowards at Sedan?
** Who: [[Napoleon III]], Emperor and founder of the Second French Empire, and last Emperor and monarch of France.

* Thank God I have done my duty...Drink drink, fan fan, rub rub.
** Who: British Vice Admiral [[Horatio Nelson]]; This is recorded definitively in an account by Nelson's ship surgeon, Dr. William Beatty. That Nelson said "Kiss me, Hardy", often believed to be "Kismet, Hardy" in his last hours, after being mortally wounded is extensively documented in contemporary accounts, including that of people actually present. That they were not his actual ''last'' words is also extensively documented, though not as clearly in many popular accounts, and they have commonly been mistaken as being his last words. (for more on this see: [[Talk:Horatio Nelson]]) The latter clause mentions how hot and thirsty he was when dying.

* Hit me one more time and make it good.
** Who: [[w:Dominick Napolitano|Dominick Napolitano]], American mobster
*** Note: Napolitano was sentenced to death by the Mafia for having failed to prevent the infiltration of the Bonanno crime family by FBI informant [[w:Donnie Brasco|Donnie Brasco]]. Napolitano knew he was going to be killed, and he was led into a house where he was shot with a revolver. When the first shot misfired, he uttered those words before being killed.

* I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
** Who: [[Isaac Newton]], British physicist, mathematician and astronomer.

* I am in the land of the dying, and I am soon going to the land of the living.
** Who: [[John Newton]], Anglican preacher, abolitionist, and writer of "Amazing Grace."

* ''Nei myn Hear ta.''
** Translation: To my [[God|Lord]].
** Who: [[Pier Gerlofs Donia]], legendary Frisian freedom fighter and giant folk hero
*** Note: After an old enemy of Pier Gerlofs asked him where he'd want to go in afterlife, he answered in Frisian that he wanted to go to his Lord in Heaven. After he'd said this, his condition got worse and he passed away.

* ''Sero. Haec est fides.''
** Translation: It is too late. This is fidelity.
** Who: [[Nero]], Roman emperor.
** Some accounts also have his last words as being "What an artist that dies in me" ("Qualis artifex pereo!")
*** Note: This was said when after he committed suicide he saw a guard, who may have been part of the assassination, running toward him thinking he was coming to rescue him.

* ''Les soldats, quand je donne l'ordre de tirer, tirent directement sur mon cœur. Attendez la commande. Ce sera mon dernier pour toi. Je proteste contre ma condamnation. J'ai combattu cent batailles pour la France, et pas une contre elle ... Soldats! Feu!''
** Translation: Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you. I protest against my condemnation. I have fought a hundred battles for France, and not one against her... Soldiers! Fire!
** Who: [[w:Michel Ney|Michel Ney]]
*** Note: Said before being executed by firing squad following the defeat of his supreme leader, [[w:Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]]. He had been offered a last request, and had asked for the right to give the firing squad the order to fire.

* Какие? Какие? (''Kakiye? Kakiye?'')
** Translation: What?! What?!
** Who: [[w:Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II of Russia]]
*** Note: In the early morning of July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were led by the Bolsheviks to the half-basement room at the back of the Ipatiev house in hopes that they would be safe from the anti-Bolsheviks' attack on the house. When they were informed that they were condemned to death by the Ural Soviet of Workers' Deputies, his stunning reaction was his final word before he turned to the family and got shot to death in the chest; the rest of the family soon followed him in death.

* I love you so much.
** Who: [[w:Harry Nilsson|Harry Nilsson]]
*** Note: Said to his wife before going to sleep and dying from heart failure.

* A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
** Who: [[Leonard Nimoy]]
*** Note: Final public words, sent in the form of a tweet. The abbreviation ''LLAP'' at the end of the quotation stands for "[[w:Vulcan salute|Live long and prosper]]", a phrase popularized by Nimoy's character [[w:Spock|Spock]] on ''[[w:Star Trek|Star Trek]]''.

* Help.
** Who: [[Richard Nixon]], 37th President of the United States
*** Note: Said to a housekeeper as he had a stroke. Though he remained alert for a period of time after he was taken to the hospital, he was unable to speak.

* ''Demain, je ne serai plus là.''
** Translation: Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here.
** Who: [[Nostradamus]]

=O=
* I am just going outside. I may be some time.
** Who: Captain [[Lawrence Oates]], on [[Robert Falcon Scott]]'s ill-fated Antarctic expedition, while suffering from frostbite and sheltering from a blizzard, Oates felt he was decreasing his companions' chances of survival. Oates voluntarily left the tent; it was his 32nd birthday. He was never seen again.
** Quoted in R. F. Scott's diary, published as ''Scott's Last Expedition'', ch.20

* ''Más totopos.''
** Translation: More totopos.
** Who: [[w:Álvaro Obregón|Álvaro Obregón]], Mexican politician.
** Obregón was sitting in a restaurant, and is said to have asked for more totopos (tortilla chips) a few seconds before being shot.

* What do I tell the pilot to do?
** Who: [[w:Barbara Olson|Barbara Olson]], American lawyer.
*** Note: A victim of the 9/11 attacks, Olson spoke her last words to her husband into her cell phone from inside a locked airplane lavatory.

* ''¿Para qué? Estoy bien al nivel de los fusiles.''
** Translation: Why? I'm right at the height of the rifles.
** Who: [[w:Melchor Ocampo|Melchor Ocampo]], Mexican politician, known for his anticlerical ideas
*** Note: Ocampo was rounded up by conservative rebels and sentenced to death. He spoke these words after his executioner ordered him to kneel.

* I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.
** Who: [[w:Donald O'Connor|Donald O'Connor]], American actor, dancer and singer

* ''Do dupy.''
** Translation: This sucks.
** Who: [[w:Agnieszka Osiecka|Agnieszka Osiecka]], Polish poet and writer.
** To her children on her deathbed. http://www.niniwa2.cba.pl/warszawka-osieckaagnieszka.html.

* Going down, 1862, going down, going down, copied, going down?
** Who: Arnon Ohad.
*** Note: Ohad was aboard [[w:El Al Flight 1862|El Al Flight 1862]], which crashed into a Dutch apartment complex on October 4, 1992. Ohad spoke these words while communicating with air traffic control.

* This isn't ''Hamlet'', you know. It's not meant to go into the bloody ear.
** Who: [[Laurence Olivier]]
*** Note: Supposedly said this when a nurse, attempting to moisten his lips, mis-aimed. In [[Shakespeare]]'s play ''Hamlet'', the title character's father is killed when poison is dripped into his ear while asleep.

* Yo, what the fuck is going on?
* Yo, what the fuck?
* Yo, what the fuck is happening?
** Who: Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, aka [[w:XXXTentacion|XXXTentacion]].
*** Note: Claimed last words according to somebody who witnessed Onfroy's murder.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/XXXTENTACION/comments/8sdgi6/this_what_one_of_the_witnesses_said_about_xs_last/</ref> Precisely which one of these statements the witness heard is unknown.

* Pray for us. Pray for us.
** Who: [[w:Betty Ong|Betty Ong]], American Airlines flight attendant
*** Note: Ong was a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001 who notified the American Airlines ground crew when the plane was hijacked and stayed on the telephone for the final 25 minutes of the flight until the plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

* I am in some pain... my hearing and speech are very poor.
** Who: [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], American theoretical physicist.
*** Note: Written in a note a few days before he died.

* Fuck!
** Who: [[w:Lee Harvey Oswald|Lee Harvey Oswald]], American Marxist and assassin of President John F. Kennedy
*** Note: Oswald was being escorted for transport to a prison following his arrest for assassinating John F. Kennedy. A crowd had gathered around his envoy to photograph the president's assassin, when [[w:Jack Ruby|Jack Ruby]] emerged and shot Oswald once in the chest. He later died in the hospital where Kennedy had been declared dead two days earlier.

* I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel room, and goddamn it, dying in a hotel room!
** Who: [[Eugene O'Neill]], American Nobel-prize winning playwright

* Send my love to Irene. Love that leather jacket. I'll come into the studio if you need my time. Talk to you later, bye.
** Who: [[w:Dolores O'Riordan|Dolores O'Riordan]], lead vocalist of [[w:The Cranberries|The Cranberries]].
*** Note: This was a voicemail to her manager, Dan Waite. She died merely hours later from accidental drowning in a bathtub due to sedation by alcohol intoxication.

* I love you.
** Who: Poltergeist child actress [[w:Heather O'Rourke|Heather O'Rourke]] to her mother.

=P=
* Yes, no last words.
** Who: [[w:Elijah Page|Elijah Page]]
*** Note: Executed by injection in South Dakota.

* Iran is Iran.
* Its land, people, and history...Every Iranian has to love it.
* Iran is Iran.
**Who: [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]], the last [[Shah]] of Iran
***Note: In his hospital bed, the Shah was asked to describe his feelings for Iran and its people and to define the country. The Shah, a fervent nationalist, responded with the above statements. He continued on to repeat "Iran is Iran" over and over. Shortly after, he slipped into a coma and died.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cooper |first1=Andrew |title=The Fall of Heaven |page=499}}</ref>

* Let me have none of your popish stuff. Get away with you. Good morning.
** Who: [[w:Thomas Paine|Thomas Paine]], pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical and intellectual. Author of ''Common Sense'', ''The Rights of Man'' and ''The American Crisis''.
*** Note: Spoken to two clergymen who were trying to lead the famous Deist in a deathbed conversion.{{fact}}
*** Also quoted as: I have no wish to believe on that subject.

* [''before stepping on the gallows trap''] Is it safe?
** Who: [[w:William Palmer (murderer)|William Palmer]]

* Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill a dozen men while you're screwing around!
** Who: [[w:Carl Panzram|Carl Panzram]], serial killer, shortly before he was executed by hanging on September 5, 1930.

* And you all are trying to get more and more people and more business leaders involved in this, and talk about, uh, why it's important to get these business leaders involved.
** Who: [[w:Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward|Alison Parker]]
*** Note: Parker was conducting a live interview about upcoming events for the 50th anniversary of Smith Mountain Lake when she was shot several times a couple of seconds after she said the above line. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

* 난 괜찮아... (''Nan gwaenchanha'')
** Translation: I'm fine...
** Who: President [[w:Park Chung-Hee|Park Chung-Hee]] after being shot by Kim Jae-gyu.

* I wasn't done.
* Who will take care of me now?
** Who: [[w:Jack Parsons|Jack Parsons]], rocket scientist and occultist.

* ''Que Dieu ne m'abandonne jamais.''
** Translation: May God never abandon me.
** Who: [[Blaise Pascal]]

* ''Je ne peux pas.''
** Translation: I cannot.
** Who: [[Louis Pasteur]]
*** Note: His response when he was offered a cup of milk.

* Napoleon was a great man and a great general. He conquered armies and he conquered nations. But he couldn't jump the Genesee Falls. Wellington was a great man and a great soldier. He conquered armies and he conquered Napoleon, but he couldn't jump the Genesee Falls. That was left for me to do, and I can do it and will!
** Who: Sam Patch, American daredevil, prior to fatal leap from Genesee Falls

* This is a hell of a way to die.
** Who: [[w:George S. Patton|George S. Patton]], after being admitted to the hospital after a car accident while out hunting.

* Bring me a tin of caviar.
** Who: [[w:Jennifer Paterson|Jennifer Paterson]], member of the ''Two Fat Ladies''.
*** Paterson died before her co-star, Clarissa Dickson Wright, arrived with the caviar.

* מרן ישוע משׁיחא עם רוחכ טיבותא עמכ אמין (''Maran Yeshu m'shikha am rukhakh taybuta amakh, amin'')
** Translation: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
** Who: [[Paul the Apostle]]
** Traditional closing of Paul's epistles, originally composed in Koine Greek. [[w:Second Epistle to Timothy|2 Timothy]], traditionally the last of Paul's epistles, closes with the variant The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

* ''Penso che una vita vissuta per la musica sia un'esistenza spesa meravigliosamente, e questo è ciò a cui ho dedicato la mia vita.''
** Translation: I believe that a life lived for music is an existence spent wonderfully, and this is what I've dedicated my life to.
** Who: [[Luciano Pavarotti]]

* ''Pak mijn zwanenkostuum klaar. Speel die laatste maat heel zachtjes.''
** Translation: Get my swan costume ready. Play that last measure very softly.
** Who: [[w:Anna Pavlova|Anna Pavlova]]

* I said, never mind.
** Who: [[w:Bill Paxton|Bill Paxton]]

* ''Que Deus me conceda esses últimos desejos - paz e prosperidade para o Brasil.''
** Translation: May God grant me these last wishes—peace and prosperity for Brazil.
** Who: [[w:Pedro II of Brazil|Pedro II of Brazil]], second and last Brazilian emperor

* I've got a hundred feet on the-
** Who: Ronald Penton, Flight Engineer of Flying Tiger Line Flight 66
*** Penton was the Flight Engineer on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tiger_Line_Flight_66 Flying Tiger Line Flight 66] when it crashed into a Hill on approach to Kuala Lumpur on February 19 1989 killing all four on board. It seems that Penton was likely referring to the radio altimeter warning of their imminent impact with the hill.

* Οὐδεὶς γάρ... ἔφη, ‘δι᾽ ἐμὲ τῶν ὄντων Ἀθηναίων μέλαν ἱμάτιον περιεβάλετο. (''Oudeìs gár... éphē, ‘di᾽ emè tôn óntōn Athēnaíōn mélan himátion periebáleto.'')
** Translation: For, no Athenian, through my means, ever wore mourning.
** Who: [[Pericles]], discussing with his friends what his greatest accomplishment had been

* ''Eva se va.''
** Translation: Eva is leaving.
** Who: [[w:Eva Peron|Eva Perón]], Argentinian First Lady

* I know not what tomorrow will bring.
** Who: [[Fernando Pessoa]], Portuguese poet
*** Note: Fernando Pessoa, who was bilingual, wrote his words in English, after losing the ability to speak.

* Я верю, Господь, и признаться, помоги моему неверию. (''Ya veryu, Gospod', i priznat'sya, pomogi moyemu neveriyu.'')
* Оставьте все... (''Ostav'te vse...'')
** Translation:
* I believe, Lord, and confess, help my unbelief.
* Leave all to...
** Who: [[Peter I of Russia]]
*** Note: According to legend, Peter was filled with remorse about his cruelty to his son during his final days, and said the first line as a prayer prior to his death. There is also another legend that he asked for a pen and paper and then wrote the second line before he asked for his daughter to be summoned and later died.

* Larry! We're going down, Larry!
** Who: First Officer Roger Pettit to Captain Larry Wheaton of [[w:Air Florida Flight 90|Air Florida Flight 90]], January 13, 1982.
*** Note: The plane lost altitude after a failed takeoff attempt and struck the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River in Washington D.C., killing all but four passengers and one flight attendant. A subsequent investigation determined that the pilots failed to switch on the engines' internal ice protection systems, used reverse thrust in a snow storm prior to takeoff, and failed to abort the takeoff even after detecting a power problem while taxiing and visually identifying ice and snow buildup on the wings.

* Και θα κυβερνάτε καλύτερα? (''Kai tha kyvernáte kalýtera?'')
** Translation: And will you rule better?
** Who: [[w:Phocas|Phocas]], Byzantine Emperor, 602 - 610
** Phocas was defeated by [[w:Heraclius|Heraclius]] in a civil war, and had been abandoned by his supporters as Heraclius and his army arrived at Constantinople. He was captured and brought before the new emperor, who asked him, "Is this how you have ruled, wretch?" When Phocas gave this reply, an enraged Heraclius beheaded him on the spot.

* No paparazzi, I want anonymity.
** Who: [[River Phoenix]]

* ''Chaque foutue chose que vous faites dans cette vie que vous payez.''
** Translation: Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.
** Who: [[w:Edith Piaf|Edith Piaf]]
*** Note: Piaf spoke these words to her sister, standing at her deathbed.

* ''Buvez-moi, buvez à ma santé, vous savez que je ne peux plus boire.''
** Translation: Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink any more.
** Who: [[Pablo Picasso]]
*** Note: [[Paul McCartney]] paid homage to Picasso in the song [http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Wings-Paul-Mccartney/Picasso-s-Last-Words-Drink-To-Me.html "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)"], which can be found on the ''[[w:Band on the Run|Band on the Run]]'' album.

* Запрягайте сани, хочу ехать к сестре. (''Zapryagayte sani, khochu ekhat k sestre.'')
** Translation: Get the sledge ready, I want to go to my sister.
** [[w:Peter II of Russia|Peter II]], Russian emperor
*** Note: His sister, Natalia, had died 14 months before him.

* يا إلهي, أنا ضج. (''Ya 'ilhy, 'ana daj'')
** Translation: God, I'm bored.
** [[w:Harry St. John Philby|Harry St. John Philby]], Arabist and writer, father of spy Kim Philby.

* CQD THIS IS TITANIC CQD THIS IS
** Who: [[w:Jack Phillips (wireless officer)|Jack Phillips]], senior wireless officer of the [[w:Titanic|Titanic]].
** Note: Last distress call sent out by Phillips to nearby ships at 2:17am ship's time. During this transmission, the power went out and the ship began to split apart. Three minutes after the final transmission, the Titanic sank. Phillips' body was never found. (CQD is the discontinued telegraph code for "General Call - Distress", now replaced with SOS.)

* I'm satisfied with my giving. I don't want a bigger suite or a better parking spot. Or yet another honorary degree. I want championships across the board. I hope you understand why, and I hope we get them while I can still savor the victories.
** Who: [[w:T. Boone Pickens|T. Boone Pickens]], oil magnate
** From his final letter to Oklahoma State University

* Lucy...
** Who: [[w:Augusto Pinochet|Augusto Pinochet]], dictator of Chile.
*** Note: He was referring to his wife, [[w:Lucia Hiriart|Lucia Hiriart]].

* Oh, my country! How I leave my country!
**Who: [[William Pitt the Younger]].

* ''Instaurare omnia in Christo.''
** Translation: To restore all things in Christ.
** Who: [[w:Pope St. Pius X|Pope St. Pius X]]

* Call Dr. Horder.
** Who: [[Sylvia Plath]], American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.


* I am making my last effort to return that which is divine in me to that which is divine in the Universe.
** Who: [[Plotinus]], Hellenistic philosopher

* Lord help my poor soul.
** Who: [[Edgar Allan Poe]]

* I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.
** Who: [[James K. Polk]], 11th President of the United States
*** Note: He was speaking to his wife on his deathbed.

* You want to go to this party? How about this?
** Who: [[Jackson Pollock]], Abstract painter
*** Note: Spoken to his two passengers moments before he was killed in a single-car accident.

* ''Non ho detto a metà di quello che ho visto.''
** Translation: I have not told half of what I saw.
** [[w:Marco Polo|Marco Polo]], Venetian traveller and writer

* ''Attendez un moment.''
** Translation: Wait a second.
** Who: [[w:Madame de Pompadour|Madame de Pompadour]], chief mistress of Louis XV of France, applying rouge to her cheeks before her death

* Good-bye boys; I die a true American.
** Who: [[w:William Poole|William "Bill the Butcher" Poole]]
*** Note: Poole was a member of the New York City gang the Bowery Boys, a bare-knuckle boxer, and a leader of the Know Nothing political movement in the mid nineteenth century.

* I've got to stop, I don't feel well.
** Who: [[w:Tyrone Power|Tyrone Power]], American actor
*** Note: Power was filming a dueling scene with actor George Sanders in Madrid, Spain for the upcoming film Solomon and Sheba when he was stricken with a heart attack and was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital a few minutes later.

* ''Suci, Slobodan Praljak nije ratni zločinac, s prijezirom odbacujem vašu presudu.''
* ''To je otrov koji sam popio.''
** Translation:
* Judges, Slobodan Praljak is not a war criminal. With disdain, I reject your verdict!
* This is poison that I drank.
** Who: [[w:Slobodan Praljak|Slobodan Praljak]]
*** Note: Praljak, who was found guilty of crimes during the Croat-Bosniak War and sentenced to 20 years in prison, said the first line above after the judges chose to uphold his sentence. He then pulled out a small bottle filled with cyanide and proceeded to drink its contents. Almost a minute later, he said the second line, which an interpreter translated. The hearings were suspended and Praljak was rushed to the hospital where he died.

* Okay, I won't.
** Who: [[Elvis Presley]]
*** Note: Those were his last words to fiancée Ginger Alden. Prior to this, he told her, "I'm going to the bathroom to read." As he was on the way to the bathroom, Alden replied, "Don't fall asleep in there."

* ''Viva Cristo Rey!''
** Translation: Long live Christ the King!
** Who: [[w:Miguel Pro|Blessed Miguel Pro, S.J.]]
*** Note: Said directly before he was executed by firing squad during the [[w:Cristero|Cristero rebellion]] in Mexico.

* "Mayday, mayday, mayday, Helios Airways Flight 522, Athens...[unintelligible]..." "Mayday! Mayday!"
** Who: Andreas Prodromou, flight attendant aboard [[w:Helios Airways Flight 522|Helios Airways Flight 522]]
*** Note: After the cabin depressurized mid-flight, incapacitating the flight crew (the plane continued to fly in a holding pattern as it was on autopilot) and eventually the passengers, Prodromou survived by utilizing portable oxygen supplies on the plane and gained access to the cockpit, as witnessed by F-16 pilots following the flight. The flight's CVR picked up Prodromou's mayday calls shortly after one engine flamed out, but these were never heard by air traffic control as the flight's radio was tuned to Larnaca ATC (the plane departed from Larnaca, Cyprus).

* ''Me l'aspettavo.''
** Translation: I expected it to happen
** Who: [[w:Pino Puglisi|Pino Puglisi]], Italian priest shot by a Mafia assassin
*** Note: Pino Puglisi was reported to have smiled to his killer.

* I love you, Kathy. I love [[w:Freddie Prinze Jr.|the baby]], but I need to find peace. I can't go on.
** Who: [[w:Freddie Prinze|Freddie Prinze]], [[w:stand-up comedian|stand-up comedian]] and [[w:actor|actor]], who left a [[suicide note]] and made a series of phone calls to his friends and family. The last statement was a phone call to his wife. After the call, Prinze pulled out a gun from the sofa and shot himself in the head.

* Η πόλη έχει πέσει και είμαι ακόμα ζωντανός. (''I póli échei pései kai eímai akóma zontanós.'')
** Translation: The city is fallen and I am still alive.
** Who : [[w:Constantine XI Palaiologos|Constantine XI Palaiologos]], final Byzantine emperor, before charging into the final battle at the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453.

* Are you all right?
** Who: [[w:Ernie Pyle|Ernie Pyle]]
*** Note: Said to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Coolidge after the two jumped into a ditch following a burst of Japanese machine gun fire on the island of Iejima. A round from a second burst entered Pyle's left temple, killing him instantly.

=Q=

* ''Adesso (or ora) vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano!''
** Translation: Now I will show you how an Italian dies!
** Who: [[w:Fabrizio Quattrocchi|Fabrizio Quattrocchi]], Italian security officer taken hostage in Iraq early in the Iraq War. When his captors came to execute him he rose from his knees, refused to kneel back down, and said these words.

* ''Jeg er urettferdig dømt, og jeg dør uskyldig.''
** Translation: I'm convicted unfairly, and I die innocent.
** Who: [[w:Vidkun Quisling|Vidkun Quisling]], before being executed by firing squad.

=R=
* ''Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être.''
** Translation: I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
*''Tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée.''
** Translation: Draw the curtain, the farce is played.
* ''Beati qui in domino moriuntur.''
** Translation: Blessed are those who die in the Lord or Blessed are those who die wearing a cloak.
** Who: [[François Rabelais]], major French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.
*** Note: Rabelais is attributed the third pair of last words from having said to have spoken this after wrapping himself in his ''domino'', a Spanish hooded cloak, a word which, in Latin, means lord or master.

* כן, כן, זה כואב מאחור, אבל לא נורא (''Khein, khein, zeh ko'eiv mei'akhor, aval lo nora'')
** Translation: Aye, aye, it hurts in the back, but not terribly
** Who: [[w:Yitzhak Rabin|Yitzhak Rabin]], fifth Prime Minister of Israel
*** Note: Rabin was assassinated by an Orthodox Jewish extremist in 1995. As such, Israeli media often cited these as his last words:
*** אני לא מאמין שזה יהודי (''Ani lo ma'amin shazeh y'hudi'')
*** Translation: I can't believe it's a Jew.

* I want to go home.
** Who: [[w:Angela Raiola|Angela Raiola]], American reality television personality.

* Strike, man, strike!
** Who: [[Sir Walter Raleigh]], English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer.
*** To his executioner, as he waited for the axe to fall.

* We'll capture the objective.
** Who: [[w:Richhpal Ram|Richhpal Ram]], Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross.

* What the devil do you mean to sing to me, priest? You are out of tune.
** Who: [[w:Jean-Philippe Rameau|Jean-Philippe Rameau]], French Baroque composer
*** Note: At his bedside, he objected to a song sung.

* Thank you all very much, I certainly appreciate it. Goodbye.
** Who: [[Ayn Rand]], Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.
*** Note: Last known words spoken to the public at a lecture entitled ''The Sanction of the Victims''.

* ''Komisch''
** Translation: Funny, comical; strange
** Who: [[w:Otto Rank|Otto Rank]]
*** Note: German/American Psychoanalyst, cited By E. J. Lieberman in "Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank".

* ''Felice.''
** Translation: Happy.
** Who: [[w:Raphael|Raphael]], Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

* Что они от меня хотят! Чего они хотят? (''Chto oni ot menya khotyat! Chego oni khotyat?'')
** Translation: What do they want of me! What do they want?
** Who: [[Grigori Rasputin]], Russian mystic
*** Note: Last words also reported as, ''Феликс, Феликс, царице всё скажу.'' (''Feliks, Feliks, tsaritse vso skazhu.'') – "Felix, Felix, I will tell the tsarina!", "Felix" being Prince [[w:Felix Yusupov|Felix Yusupov]], one of Rasputin's assassins.

* ''Azərbaycan, Azərbaycan, Azərbaycan!''
** Transation: Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan!
** Who: [[w:Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh|Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh]]

* I'm tired. I'm going back to bed.
** Who: [[w:George Reeves|George Reeves]]
*** Note: Reeves committed suicide. This was the last thing he said to his friends before shooting himself in his bedroom.

* I miss her so much, I want to be with Carrie.
** Who: [[w:Debbie Reynolds|Debbie Reynolds]]
*** Note: Her daughter, actress [[w:Carrie Fisher|Carrie Fisher]], had died of heart failure the day before. and both Debbie and her son [[w:Todd Fisher|Todd Fisher]] were planning Carrie's funeral. According to Todd, she had made the comment, and 15 minutes later, suffered a stroke that she later died from.

* Forward! For God's sake, forward!
** Who: [[w:John F. Reynolds|John F. Reynolds]], Union General at [[w:Gettysburg|Gettysburg]], seconds before he was shot by a Confederate sharpshooter.

* ''I vvill die King of England! I ne vvill boughe a foot! Treason! Treason!''
** Translation: I will die King of England! I will not budge a foot! Treason! Treason!!
** Who: [[w:Richard III|Richard III]]

* Yeah, country music.
** Who: [[w:Buddy Rich|Buddy Rich]]
*** Note: Said to a nurse who asked him, "Is there anything you can't take?" He died from heart failure following surgery to remove a brain tumor.

* ''Now I'm going to tell you a story from the Bible about spiritual courage...''
** Who: Baseball impressario [[w:Branch Rickey|Branch Rickey]]
*** Note: He was in the middle of an acceptance speech at Missouri's Sports Hall of Fame when he collapsed in mid-sentence and never regained consciousness. Rickey died 26 days later.

* No words can express just how sorry I am for taking the lives of my babies. No way I can make up for or take away the pain I have caused everyone who knew and loved them. I love you, my babies.
** Who: [[w:Christina Marie Riggs|Christina Marie Riggs]], first woman executed in Arkansas on May 2, 2000. In 1997 she killed her two small children and then failed in her attempt to commit suicide.

* I don't want the doctor's death. I want to have my own freedom.
** Who: [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist

* ''Consummatum est!''
** Translation: It is finished!
** Who: [[w:Jose Rizal|Jose Rizal]]
*** Note: Rizal mentioned it moments before being shot by a firing squad. These are the last words spoken by Jesus (John 19:30).

* My God, Ned, help me! I'm on fire!
** Who: [[w:Fireball Roberts|Edward "Fireball" Roberts]], 1962 Daytona 500 winner
*** Note: Last recorded words said to Ned Jarrett in an attempt to save him, and recorded by many of the witnesses just moments after his fatal wreck during the 1964 World 600. In an attempt to avoid a wreck in front of him, Roberts swerved right to avoid, and spun out. His car hit an open patch in the wall, ripped the fuel tank, and was subsequently engulfed in fire. He slipped into a coma as a result of the accident, and died of third-degree burns three months later.

* I love you.
** Who: [[Jackie Robinson]], American baseball player
*** Note: Spoken to his wife. Robinson suffered a fatal heart attack moments later.

*Yeah
*Oh shit!
**Who: John Robinson, First Officer of Flying Tiger Line Flight 66
***Note: Robinson was the First Officer on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tiger_Line_Flight_66 Flying Tiger Line Flight 66] when it crashed into a hill on approach to Kuala Lumpur on February 19 1989 killing all four on board. The first line was in response to the Captain asking if he was carrying out an Instrument landing system approach, where are his last confirmed words. In the final seconds of the flight, a voice declared the second line and it is unclear whether it was Robinson or the Captain on realizing they were about to crash.

* Hey, what's up?
** Who: [[Elliot Rodger]], perpetrator of the [[w:2014 Isla Vista killings|Isla Vista shootings]]
*** Note: Said to Sierra Swartz after pulling up next to her, before firing at her multiple times (each bullet missed). Minutes later, Rodger crashed his car and committed suicide via self-inflicted gunshot wound.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150220034256/http://www.sbsheriff.us/documents/ISLAVISTAINVESTIGATIVESUMMARY.pdf - Investigative summary of the Isla Vista shootings.</ref>

*Yes, a bullet-proof vest.
** Who: [[w:James W. Rodgers|James W. Rodgers]], American construction worker and convicted murderer
*** Note: Asked if he has any last requests before facing a firing squad.

* I forgot something.
** Who: [[w:George Lincoln Rockwell|George Lincoln Rockwell]], founder of the [[w:American Nazi Party|American Nazi Party]]
*** Note: He was in the Econowash laundromat at the Dominion Hills Shopping Center in Arlington, Virginia, and spoke those words to no one in particular as he left the laundromat to get something from his car. Moments later, [[w:John Patler|John Palter]], a former member of Rockwell's group, fatally shot Rockwell from the roof of the shopping center.

* I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are. And what's more, I'm so grateful to you for helping the children in your life to know that you'll do everything you can to keep them safe. And to help them express their feelings in ways that will bring healing in many different neighborhoods. Its such a good feeling to know that we're lifelong friends.
** Who: [[w:Fred Rogers|Fred Rogers]], best known as the creator and host of children's show ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood''.
*** Note: Rogers made these remarks in a video released several months before his death from stomach cancer on February 27, 2003. They are not his deathbed words, but they are his last words to the public.

* ''Wenn ich schon umgebracht werden soll, dann soll Adolf es selbst tun.''
** Translation: If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself.
** Who: [[w:Ernst Röhm|Ernst Röhm]]
*** Note: He was co-founder of the ("Storm Battalion"; SA) and was among a number of Nazi officials who were suspected of conspiring against Adolf Hitler. He was executed during the 1934 [[w:Night of Long Knives|Night of Long Knives]]. Hitler was hesitant in ordering his execution and gave Röhm the opportunity to commit suicide. On July 2, he was given a pistol by 2 SS officers and was told he had 10 minutes to use it. He refused and stated what were to be his last words. He was later shot in the chest by SS-Obersturmbannführer Michael Lippert.

*I am in debt to so many people. I have caused too great a burden to be placed upon them. I can't begin to fathom the countless agonies down the road. The rest of my life would only be a burden for others. I am unable to do anything because of poor health. I can't read, I can't write. Do not be too sad. Isn't life and death all a part of nature? Do not be sorry. Do not feel resentment toward anyone. It is fate. Cremate me. And leave only a small tombstone near home. I've thought on this for a long time.
** Who [[w:Roh Moo-hyun|Roh Moo-hyun]], 9th President of South Korea
*** Note: These words were from a suicide note typed on Roh's PC, before he eventually jumped off a mountain cliff behind his home in Bongha.

*May God have mercy on the assassins.
** Who: Salvadoran Archbishop [[w:Óscar Romero|Óscar Romero]]
*** Note: He was fatally shot while saying Mass in San Salvador by a death squad assassin who fired from the entrance of the Church, whom Romero presumably saw.

* Utter nonsense.
** Who: [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]
*** Note: Spoken to the nurse who told her she would die when the reason God put her on earth was fulfilled.

* I have a terrific headache.
** Who: [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], 32nd President of the United States, who died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage
*** Note: According to Conrad Black in his biography ''Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom'', page 1110, FDR was sitting for a portrait when he put his left hand to the back of his head and said: "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head." He then was carried to his bed by several people — as they were doing this, "he was understood by Laura Delano to say, only semiconsciously, 'Be careful.'" These were his last words.

* James, will you please put out the light?
** Who: [[Theodore Roosevelt]], 26th President of the United States
*** Note: Spoken to his valet, James Amos. Roosevelt died in his sleep.

* That's it, I'm dead.
** Who: Warren Rose, flight engineer of [[w:Surinam Airways Flight 764|Surinam Airways Flight 764]]
*** Note: The flight attempted an ILS landing rather than a VOR/DME approach in thick fog. The plane's engine and right wing struck trees on the approach and inverted, killing all but eleven passengers.

* No.
** Who: [[Alfred Rosenberg]], Nazi ideologist and minister
*** Note: when asked if he had any last words before being executed by hanging.

* We are the first victims of American fascism!
** Who: [[w:Ethel Rosenberg|Ethel Rosenberg]]
*** Note: She and her husband Julius were executed in 1953 in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison for treason, having been convicted of passing information to the Soviet Union concerning the construction of the atomic bomb. The judge who condemned them to death said that he did so to prevent the Rosenbergs from ever being released from prison. Their two young children were eventually adopted by songwriter Abel Meeropol.

* We are innocent. That is the whole truth. To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of life. For life thus purchased we could not live out in dignity.
** Who: [[w:Julius Rosenberg|Julius Rosenberg]]
*** Note: He and his wife Ethel were executed in the electric chair in 1953 for treason (passing in blueprints of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union; see above.)

* I'd like to say just thanks for this time today—a chance to share your world along the way. One day soon, our paths may cross again; until then, God bless, my friend.
** Who: [[Bob Ross]], American painter, host of ''[[w:The Joy of Painting|The Joy of Painting]]''
*** Note: A poem Ross recited as a farewell message, in the last days of his terminal bout with lymphoma; Ross's traditional sign-off on ''The Joy of Painting'' was "happy painting, and God bless." It aired after Ross's death as part of the children's series ''The Adventures of Elmer and Friends'', which also set the poem to music. (These were Ross's last words to the public; his last words overall were likely related to a dispute he and his son Steve had with his business partners, Annette and Walt Kowalski, over Ross's intellectual properties, including his appearance on ''Elmer and Friends''. Any recordings of these were destroyed as part of a legal settlement.)

*No thank you.
** Who: [[w:Michael Bruce Ross|Michael Bruce Ross]], executed in Connecticut on May 13, 2005
*** Note: When asked if he had any last words.

* Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
** Who: [[w:Arnold Rothstein|Arnold Rothstein]], a.k.a. Mr. Big. Said to his wife Carolyn as he tried to raise himself he fell back and into unconsciousness. Rothstein would not regain consciousness and died the following morning.

* I here declare my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule -- to all political, social and business connection with the Yankees and to the Yankee race. Would that I could impress these sentiments, in their full force, on every living Southerner and bequeath them to every one yet to be born! May such sentiments be held universally in the outraged and down-trodden South, though in silence and stillness, until the now far-distant day shall arrive for just retribution for Yankee usurpation, oppression and atrocious outrages, and for deliverance and vengeance for the now ruined, subjugated and enslaved Southern States!...And now with my latest writing and utterance, and with what will be near my latest breath, I here repeat and would willingly proclaim my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule--to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, and the perfidious, malignant and vile Yankee race.
** Who: [[w:Edmund Ruffin|Edmund Ruffin]] (Diary entry, 17 June 1865)
*** Note: Ruffin was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy during the Civil War and fired one of the first shots of the war at Fort Sumter in 1861. He wrote his final diary entry on the occasion of General Robert E. Lee's surrender, and after completing his entry, shot himself in the head.

* Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.
** Who: [[w:Edward H. Rulloff|Edward H. Rulloff]], a convicted serial killer and last person to be executed by hanging in the State of New York.

* I feel like one of my engines is going out or something.
** Who: Richard Russell
*** Note: Russell had stolen a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 from Seattle-Tacoma airport and taken it for a joyride. This was Russell's last communication with SeaTac ATC, approximately four minutes before committing suicide by crashing into Keaton Island. [https://soundcloud.com/tom-cleary-17/seatac-air-traffic-control-81018-824-pm-to-854-pm (SeaTac ATC recordings from 8:24pm to 8:54pm on August 10, 2018 - Russell's last communication occurs at 18:49)]

* What's happening?
** Who: [[w:Tim Russert|Tim Russert]], longtime host of [[w:Meet the Press|Meet the Press]] on [[w:NBC|NBC]]
** Spoken as a greeting, shortly before he collapsed, according to NBC Washington bureau editing supervisor Candace Harrington [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/18/brian-williams-at-tim-rus_n_107932.html]

* Goodbye, cobber. God bless you.
** Who: Harold Rush, [[w:Australian 10th Light Horse Regiment|Australian 10th Light Horse Regiment]] trooper in [[w:World War I|World War I]]
*** Note: His last words before joining his attack wave during the [[w:Battle of The Nek|Battle of The Nek]]. "Cobber" is an Australian colloquialism that means "friend".

* I'm going over the valley.
** Who: [[Babe Ruth]], baseball player.
*** Note: His doctor had asked him where he was going when he got up to wander around his hospital room.#

* I want to think about it. I am not coming out until I know about my mother.
** Who: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre Michael Ryan], perpetrator of the Hungerford massacre
*** Note: Ryan had been speaking to a Police negotiator when he asked for the time. He had killed his Mother in the shooting earlier in the day.

* God bless you, please make it quick.
** Who: [[w:Ronald Ryan|Ronald Ryan]], the last man to hanged in Australia on 3 February 1967.

=S=
* Loved tonight’s show (at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall) in Jacksonville. Appreciative audience. Thanks again to Tim Wilkins for opening. I had no idea I did a 2 hr set tonight. I’m happily addicted again to this shit. Check BobSaget.com for my dates in 2022.
** Who: [[Bob Saget]]

* Put out the bloody cigarette!
** Who: [[Saki]] (British author Hugh Hector Munro)
*** Note: Spoken to a fellow officer while in a trench during [[w:World War I|World War I]], for fear the smoke would give away their positions; he was then shot by a German sniper who had heard the remark.

* "yea...usually @ north camarillo"
** Who: Robert M. Sanchez
*** Note: Texted one minute before Sanchez, a Los Angeles Metrolink engineer, collided his commuter train with a Union Pacific freight train in the [[w:Chatsworth train collision|Chatsworth train collision]].

* תמות נפשי עם־פלשתים (''Tamot nafshi im-pelishtim'')
** Translation: Let me die with the Philistines!
*** Who: [[w:Samson|Samson]]

* Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
** Who: [[w:George Sanders|George Sanders]], British actor
*** Note: Written on a suicide note.

* Tell my family I love them.
** Who: William David Sanders, American schoolteacher
*** Note: Sanders was injured in the [[w:Columbine High School massacre|Columbine High School massacre]] on April 20, 1999. He then managed to get himself into a science lab where he succumbed to a loss of blood nearly three hours later.

* Thank you Palestrina. It's a wonderful evening, it's great to be here and I wanna dedicate you a super sexy song.
** Who: [[w:Mark Sandman|Mark Sandman]] (American jazz singer)
*** Note: Sandman collapsed on stage at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina, Italy while performing with his band Morphine, just after saying this to the audience.

* A party! Let's have a party.
** Who: [[w:Margaret Sanger|Margaret Sanger]], American birth control activist

* God bless, God damn!
** Who: [[w:Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna|Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna]]
*** Note: Santa Anna was known to spend many long hours trying to decide what his last words would be; one can only speculate if this is what he had intended to say.

* We figured we'd wait to go to your center. Ah, we heard a suspicious transmission on our departure out of Boston, ah, with someone, ah, it sounded like someone keyed the mikes and said, ah, "Everyone, ah, stay in your seats." It cut out.
** Who: Victor Saracini
*** Note: Saracini was the captain of [[w:United Airlines Flight 175|United Airlines Flight 175]] on September 11, 2001. It was the last transmission he made to the ground as only minutes later the flight was hijacked and the plane later crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

* Let's be wild tonight.
** Who: [[w:Sirkka Sari|Sirkka Sari]]
*** Note: Sari was a [[w:Cinema of Finland|Finnish actress]] who died by falling down a [[w:chimney|chimney]] during a party. These are her last recorded words, by which she convinced the crew and her castmates to have a party at the Aulanko hotel, where they were shooting; during the party, Sari and one of the men in the group (she was engaged, but the man was ''not'' her fiancee) went up to the roof of the hotel. On the flat roof, there was a several-feet high chimney, with a ladder leading up to the top; Sari mistook this chimney for a scenery [[w:balcony|balcony]], climbed up, and fell into a heating [[w:boiler|boiler]], where she died instantly.

* Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. What now?
** Who: [[William Saroyan]], American writer

* I love you very much, my dear Beaver.
** Who: [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], French philosopher
*** Note: Said to his partner, [[Simone de Beauvoir]]

* おいしい。 (''Oishii.'')
** Translation: It's good. or It's tasty.
** Who: [[w:Sadako Sasaki|Sadako Sasaki]], Hiroshima atomic bomb victim, after tasting her [[w:Chazuke|ochazuke]] (tea on rice) before dying of leukemia at age 12.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_j/exhibit/exh0107/exh01072.html|title=企画展2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/exhibit_e/exh0107_e/exh01072_e.html|title=Special Exhibition 2}}</ref>

* فيصل، سعود هو أخيك. سعود، فيصل هو أخيك. ليس هناك قوة ولا قوة إنقاذ في الله. (''Faysal, Sueud hu 'akhiku. Saeudun, Faysal hu 'akhiuk. Lays hunak quat wala quat 'iinqadh fi Allah'')
** Translation: Faisal, Saud is your brother. Saud, Faisal is your brother. There is no power and no strength save in God.
** Who: [[w:Ibn Saud|Ibn Saud]]; quoted in ''Ibn Saud'', by Leslie McLoughlin
*** Note: Saudi sources claim Ibn Saud's last words were the ''[[w:Shahada|Shahada]]'' prayer, which Ibn Saud recited several times before sleeping.

* שלף חרבך ודקרני בה פן־יבאו הערלים האלה והתעללו־בי (''Shelof charbecha vedakereni vah, pen-yavo'u ha'arelim ha'elleh vehit'allelu-vi'')
** Translation: Draw your sword and pierce me with it, lest these uncircumcised ones come upon me and make a mockery of me
** Who: [[w:Saul|Saul]], first king of the [[w:United Monarchy of Israel|United Monarchy of Israel]]
*** Note: Saul spoke this to his sword-bearer after losing a battle at Mount Gilboa to the Philistines. His weapon-bearer refused to kill the king, so Saul committed suicide to prevent himself from falling into enemy hands. Three of his sons had died in the battle. His and their bodies were discovered by the Philistine soldiers the following day, and were then mutilated and displayed before being recovered by David and buried.

* ''Ik schiet beter!''
** Translation: I could shoot better!
** Who: [[w:Hannie Schaft|Hannie Schaft]]
*** Note: Spoken to a German soldier after having been shot in her execution; the soldier subsequently emptied his machine gun into her.

* ''Hier, hier ist das deutsche Herz!''
** Translation: Here, here is the German heart!
** Who: The last of the "Schillschen officers" - a group of eleven Prussian officers executed on the Schillschen Field in Wesel, Germany, by Napoleon's troops. Reportedly said after his ten fellow-officers were shot by the firing squad, leaving him alive unintentionally. He was promptly shot.

* I have a problem — I have a real problem.
** Who: [[w:Art Scholl|Art Scholl]]
*** Note: Said as his plane entered a flat spin and subsequently crashed.

* ''Es lebe die Freiheit!''
** ''Translation:'' Long live freedom!
** Who: [[w:Hans Scholl|Hans Scholl]], leader of [[The White Rose]], German anti-Hitler resistance movement.
** His last words from the guillotine before sentence of death for high treason was executed (22 February 1943)
* Let them leave me alone.
** Who: [[w:Dutch Schultz|Dutch Schultz]], Jewish-American gangster
*** Note: Schultz had been shot, and gave a long, stream-of-consciousness babble while on his deathbed as police tried to extract information from him.

* Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy...how can I ever forget them...
** Who: [[w:Charles Schulz|Charles Schulz]]
*** Note: From the final [[w:Peanuts|Peanuts]] comic strip released on February 13, 2000 (one day after his death).

* Roger, go at throttle-up.
** Who: [[w:Dick Scobee|Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee]]
*** Note: These were his last recorded words before the [[w:Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disintegrated]], killing him and six other astronauts.

* For God's sake look after our people.
** Who: [[w:Robert Falcon Scott|Robert Falcon Scott]].
*** Note: These were the last words he wrote in his diary, before he froze to death.

* My dear, be a good man — be virtuous — be religious — be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
** Who: [[Walter Scott]]
** As quoted in John Gibson Lockhart ''Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart'', Vol. VII (1838), p. 294

* Just leaving for God's own country.
** Who [[w:Richard John Seddon|Richard Seddon]], Prime Minister of New Zealand.
*** Note: Final telegram sent to the Premier of Victoria, Sir Thomas Bent, from on board the ''Oswestry Grange'' heading back to New Zealand, 10 June 1906. He died later that evening of heart failure. "[[w:God's Own Country|God's Own Country]]" has long been a nickname for New Zealand.

*What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
** Who: [[John Sedgwick]]
*** Note: Sedgwick was a Union Civil War general who was hit by sniper fire moments after saying these, at the battle of Spotsylvania, on May 9, 1864. They are often portrayed as if they were his absolute final statement, the sentence often being presented as if he did not even finish it, and altered into the form: '' "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...". '' Though this may be a slightly more striking version of events, his actual last words are believed to be "All right, my man; go to your place", in response to a soldier telling him that he preferred to duck when being shot at, even from a great distance. - (External link: [http://www.civilwarhome.com/sedgwickdeath.htm Death of General John Sedgwick])

* Yolanda, in Room 158.
** Who: [[w:Selena|Selena]]
*** Note: Selena had been shot in the back by Yolanda Saldívar during an argument over missing financial records. Before losing consciousness, Selena named Saldivar as her assailant and the room number she was staying at to a Days Inn motel employee.

* The car seems OK...
** Who: [[Ayrton Senna]], three time Formula One World Racing champion
*** Note: He said these last words over his team radio before his steering column broke and he subsequently crashed into a wall, killing him instantly.

* My boys, I'm going down.
** Who: [[w:Alexandru Şerbănescu|Alexandru Şerbănescu]], Romanian World War II flying ace.
*** Note: Said as his aircraft was shot down.

* Nothing, only "love one another."
** Who: [[William H. Seward]], United States Secretary of State and architect of the [[w:Alaska purchase|Alaska purchase]]
*** Note: Whispered to his children after he asked if he had any last words.

* Days betray me when I am not working. None of my guests nor I mentioned it was Saturday, so, for me, it was a Sunday dinner. Perhaps I'll have another tomorrow!
** Who: [[w:Glenn Shadix|Glenn Shadix]], American actor
*** Note: Actor; died on a Saturday.

* Fuck you.
** Who: [[Tupac Shakur]], American rapper
*** Note: Spoken to a police officer who had asked who shot him (Shakur).

* Mommy...
** Who: [[w:Murder of Shanda Sharer|Shanda Sharer]]
*** Note: Shanda Sharer was a 12-year old girl who was abducted and tortured by four teenage girls during the late night hours of January 11, 1992 in Madison, Indiana. After eight hours of torture they took her out to a field and she was calling for her mother before they burned her alive.

* Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
** Who: [[George Bernard Shaw]]
*** Note: Said on his death bed.'

* If elected, I will not lay down on the job.
** Who: [[w:Dick Shawn|Dick Shawn]], American comedian
*** As part of his comedy act. Shawn suffered a fatal heart attack in the middle of his act, which most in attendance assumed was part of the act.

* I want to see my mom.
** Who: Isaiah Shoels
*** Note: Shoels was one of 13 people killed in the [[w:Columbine High School massacre|Columbine High School massacre]] on April 20, 1999. His killers, [[w:Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold|Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold]] made racist comments towards him before fatally shooting him.

* Ooh-ee, I can feel that!
** Who: [[w:Anthony Allen Shore|Anthony Allen Shore]], American serial killer
*** Note: Shore's last words before he was executed by lethal injection.

* ''Braćo, spasavaj se ko hoće i ko može!''
** Translation: Brothers, save yourself those of you who want and who can!
** Who: [[w:Stevan Sinđelić|Stevan Sinđelić]], Serbian military commander.
*** Note: Sinđelić uttered it during [[w:Battle of Čegar|Battle of Čegar]], before igniting the gunpowder kegs in the powder cave, creating an enormous explosion that killed him, all of the Serb rebels and Ottoman soldiers.

* Up...up...
** Who: [[w:Tom Simpson|Tom Simpson]], British cyclist
*** Note: Tom Simpson died on the Mont Ventoux, probably because of a combination of amphetamines, alcohol and the heat. His last words are often erroneously quoted as "Put me back on my bike"; Simpson's soigneur told reporters that he wanted to be "put back on his bike", and this was reported as such.

* I'm losing it.
** Who: [[Frank Sinatra]], American singer, actor and producer
*** Note: According to his daughter [[w:Nancy Sinatra|Nancy Sinatra]], as told to ''Variety'' magazine senior columnist, [[w:Army Archerd|Army Archerd]]. Other sources quote him as saying, ''"I'm losin' it."''

* I am not going. Do with me what you like. I am not going. Come on! Come on! Take action! Let's go!
** Who: Chief [[Sitting Bull]], famous for leading the Sioux tribe against General Custer's troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn
*** Note: About 43 members of the Indian police decided to arrest him. Sitting Bull refused to leave with the police and a crowd of angry supporters gathered around him. A fight broke out and Sitting Bull wound up getting shot in the head.

* This is the first time authorities helped me escape prison.
** Who: [[w:George Sitts|George Sitts]], convicted murderer before his electrocution in 1947 in South Dakota

* They're not shooting me for deserting the United States Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for that brass I stole when I was 12 years old.
** Who: [[w:Eddie Slovik|Eddie Slovik]], the only US soldier shot for desertion during World War II. Said shortly before his execution by firing squad at 10:04 a.m. on January 31, 1945, near the village of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France.

* ''Która godzina?''
** Translation: What time is it?
** Who: [[w:Juliusz Słowacki|Juliusz Słowacki]], Polish romantic poet.

* My wife is very good at putting me to sleep just by rubbing my hands... Be strong my darling...
** Who: Peter Smedley, English Hotelier
*** Note: Smedley had an assisted death at a [[w:Dignitas (assisted dying organisation)|Dignitas]] euthanasia clinic after suffering from [[w:Motor neurone disease|motor neurone disease]] for much of his life. His assisted death was televised as part of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s documentary Choosing To Die. He died holding his wife's hand, calmly and of his own choice.

* I believe we should adjourn this meeting to another place.
** Who: [[Adam Smith]]

* I'm going, but I'm going in the name of the Lord.
** Who: [[w:Bessie Smith|Bessie Smith]]

* Now he's going into a parking lot, now he's stopped. We'll see what happens here. He has stopped. This may be the end of this thing. Okay, he's out, okay now it's a foot chase. Now he's in another vehicle. Okay, okay, doors open, police, okay. Oh, jee-
** Who: Craig Smith, pilot for KNXV-TV's Chopper15 involved in the [[w:Phoenix news helicopter collision|Phoenix mid-air collision]]
** Note: While covering a police chase, Smith's chopper collided with KTVK's Newschopper3. Both choppers crashed to the ground, killing all four occupants on both aircraft. Just as the audio from the incident fades out as ABC15 News cuts back to anchor Rebecca Thomas, Smith can be heard screaming.

*I'm a dead man!
** Who: [[w:Hyrum Smith|Hyrum Smith]] upon being shot in the face, just before his brother Joseph was as well.

* Oh Lord, my God...
** Who: [[Joseph Smith, Jr.]] crying out while being shot by a mob inside [[W:Carthage Jail|Carthage Jail]] and then falling out of a window.

* Uh-oh...
** Who: [[w:Michael J. Smith (astronaut)|Michael J. Smith]], crew member of the ill-fated Space Shuttle [[w:Challenger|Challenger]] 51-L mission, 28 January 1986. Last statement recorded on the spacecraft's cockpit voice recorder, less than half a second before the shuttle disintegrated.

* My God, don't shoot!
** Who: [[w:Soapy Smith|Soapy Smith]], American con artist
*** Note: Said during the [[w:Shootout on Juneau Wharf|Shootout on Juneau Wharf]]

* My name is Tris Speaker.
** Who: [[w:Tris Speaker|Tris Speaker]], American baseball player

* My God, what's happened?
** Who: [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Spencer]], 31 August 1997 (after being mortally wounded in a car accident)

* My vocabulary did this to me. Your love will let you go on...
** Who: [[w:Jack Spicer|Jack Spicer]], Poet. Spoken to fellow poet Robin Blaser in a near-coma brought on by Spicer's Alcoholism. [http://www.memorybc.ca/jack-spicer-fonds;rad]

* Ὦ Κρίτων... τῷ Ἀσκληπιῷ ὀφείλομεν ἀλεκτρυόνα. ἀλλὰ ἀπόδοτε καὶ μὴ ἀμελήσητε. (''Ô Krítōn... tôi Asklēpiôi opheílomen alektruóna. allà apódote kaì mḕ amelḗsēte.'')
** Translation: Crito, we ought to offer a cock to Asclepius. See to it, and don't forget.
** Who: [[Socrates]], quoted by Plato in ''Phaedo''
*** Note: Asclepius was a Greek god of healing (his shrine is on the side of the Acropolis). It seems to many that Socrates considered death to be a relief, and thus was thanking the god for the service of killing him.

* Refill my whiskey, please.
** Who: [[w:Russell Solomon|Russ Solomon]], entrepreneur and founder of the retailer Tower Records
*** Immediately prior to the request to his wife, Solomon, who was watching the Academy Awards on television at the time, also commented that one of the dresses an attendee was wearing was ugly. By the time his wife returned with the whiskey, he was dead.

* It must have been the coffee.
** Who: [[w:Jack Soo|Jack Soo]], Actor and Comic, quoted by Hal Linden
*** Note: This was a reference to the running gag of his character Nick Yemana from the TV show ''Barney Miller'' having the reputation for making horrible coffee. According to friend and fellow cast-member Hal Linden, these were Soo's last words before being taken to surgery for cancer of the esophagus.

* Not bad. I can't feel a thing.
** Who: [[w:Franklin Sousley|Franklin Sousley]]

* Capital punishment: Them without the capital get the punishment!
** Who: [[w:John Arthur Spenkelink|John Arthur Spenkelink]]
** Before his electrocution in Florida in 1979. He was the first person executed involuntarily after moratorium was lifted

* ''Dan liever de lucht in!''
** Translation: Rather to blow up, then!
** Who: [[w:Jan van Speyk|Jan van Speyjk]]

* There will be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!
** Who: [[August Spies]], [[anarchism|anarchist]] [[W:Haymarket Riot|Haymarket martyr]], prior to his hanging.

* I'm tired.
** Who: [[w:Ken Stabler|Ken Stabler]]

* Going southbound, sir.
** Who: Andrew Joseph (Joe) Stack II, software engineer and [[w:tax protester|tax protestor]].
** As he was preparing to fly his [[w:Piper Cherokee|Piper Cherokee PA-28-236]] into [[w:2010 Austin plane crash|Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, United States]], killing himself and [[w:Internal Revenue Service|Internal Revenue Service]] manager Vernon Hunter and injuring 13 others, he radioed the control tower he was flying southbound. The tower operator replied, ''"Have a great day."''[http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1893898] Prior to his suicide, Stack posted an anti-government manifesto on his business website. [http://www.webcitation.org/5ndnnvvrP]

* Not like this. Don't leave me like this.
** Who: [[w:Layne Staley|Layne Staley]], lead singer of [[Alice in Chains]]
*** Note: Staley was calling after friend and former bandmate [[w:Mike Starr (musician)|Mike Starr]], who angrily stormed out of Staley's apartment following an argument. Staley is believed to have passed away a day later, on April 5, 2002, of a drug overdose. Staley's body wasn't found by police until two weeks after his death.

* Я закончил. Я даже не доверяю себе. (''Ya zakonchil. Ya dazhe ne doveryayu sebe.'')
** Translation: I am finished. I don't even trust myself.
** Who: [[w:Joseph Stalin|Joseph Stalin]], leader of the [[w:Soviet Union|Soviet Union]]
*** Note: Stalin's health had been falling in the previous weeks and he made this remark as his paranoia grew ever stronger. These were his final remarks to his subordinates, his actual final words, if any, are not known because Beria left him unattended for up to twelve hours after he suffered a stroke. His daughter Svetlana remarked that, as Stalin was on his deathbed, "He suddenly sat up, groaned, shook his fist at the ceiling as if he could see beyond it, then fell back and died."

* Get out of it! Get out of it!
** Who: Ed States, captain aboard [[w:American Airlines Flight 587|American Airlines Flight 587]]
*** Note: Said as the flight spun out of control following the separation of the stabilizer from the airplane, shortly after Sten Molin's last words. The plane crashed four seconds later, killing all 260 passengers and crew (plus five civilians on the ground).

*''Es lebe unser heiliges Deutschland!''
** Translation: Long live our holy Germany!
**Who: [[w:Claus von Stauffenberg|Claus von Stauffenberg]], seconds before being executed by a Nazi firing squad for his role in an [[w:20 July plot|attempt]] on the life of Adolf Hitler. Stauffenberg's biographer, Peter Hoffmann, speculates that the words, which exist in differing versions, were actually ''Es lebe die geheime Deutschland!'' (Long live the secret Germany!), a tenet held by the poet Stefan George and his circle.

* ''Náða góðan daginn, ástin mín.''
** Translation: Have a good day, my love.
** Who: [[Stefán Karl Stefánsson]]
*** Note: Last words publicly known, taken from a video filmed on the day of his death.

* What is the answer? [''no response''] In that case, what is the question?
** Who: [[Gertrude Stein]], spoken to [[w:Alice B. Toklas|Alice B. Toklas]].

* I'm feeling much better now, Doc.
** Who: [[w:Jock Stein|Jock Stein]], manager of the [[w:Scotland national football team|Scotland national football team]].
*** Note: While managing for Scotland in their last group game of the [[w:1986 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification]], Stein suffered a pulmonary edema (fluid buildup in the lungs) two minutes before the final whistle (and Scotland's unlikely qualification for the UEFA-OFC playoff against Australia). Stein was carried into the medical room and given an injection by team doctor Stewart Hillis, who heard Stein's whisper his last words seconds before falling unconscious. It was later revealed that Stein had stopped taking diuretics leading up to the match, which likely caused his death.

* ''Herr Heise, für heute reicht.''
** Translation: Mr. Heise, enough for today.
** Who: [[w:Erfurt school massacre|Robert Steinhäuser]], perpetrator of the Erfurt school massacre in Germany in 2002.
*** Note: Steinhäuser, an expelled student of the school, had been confronted by a teacher (Mr. Heise), and promptly committed suicide after saying this.

* מרן לא תקים להון הדא חטיתא (''Maran la t'qim l'hun hadhei kh'titha'')
** Translation: Lord, do not hold this sin against them
*** Who: [[w:Saint Stephen|Saint Stephen]]

* Do not walk quite so fast and do hold your head up Marietta.
** Who: [[Adlai Stevenson II]], speaking to his girlfriend while walking. He then collapsed and died.

* Does my face look strange? . . . My head! My head!
** Who: [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], author
*** Note: Stevenson collapsed from cerebral hemorrhage and died shortly after.

* I'm going to go be with Gloria now.
** Who: [[Jimmy Stewart]], speaking of his late wife

* Make the world better.
** Who: [[Lucy Stone]], American [[w:abolitionism|abolitionist]], [[w:feminism|feminist]], [[w:activism|activist]]

* We have been together for 40 years, and we will not separate now.
** Who: [[w:Ida Straus|Ida Straus]], wife of [[w:Isidor Straus|Isidor Straus]], co-owner of [[w:Macy's Department Store|Macy's]], and victim aboard the [[w:RMS Titanic|Titanic]].
*** Note: She refused to take a lifeboat, which would have meant separating from her husband.

* ''Heil Hitler! Dies ist mein Purimfest 1946. Ich gehe zu Gott. Die Bolschewisten werden eines Tages Euch auch hängen.''
** Translation Heil Hitler! This is my [[W:Purim|Purim]] celebration 1946. I go to God. The [[W:Bolshevik|Bolshevists]] will one day hang you, too.
** Who: [[Julius Streicher]], publisher of the infamous Nazi tabloid ''Der Stürmer'' and one-time Gauleiter of Franconia, moments before being hanged for crimes against humanity.
*** Note: Of all the condemned Nazis, he was the only one to salute Hitler before his own execution.

* ''¡Carajo, un balazo!''
** Translation: Damn, a bullet!
** Who: [[w:Antonio José de Sucre|Antonio José de Sucre]], after being shot while riding his horse in the jungle in Colombia on his way home. He was said to be a fine gentleman who had never cursed until that day, according to Ricardo Palma's "Tradiciones en Salsa Verde".

*Hang down one of my hands out of coffin. People should see that Suleyman, the sultan, has left this world empty-handed.
**Who: Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan

*Please don't let me fall.
**Who: [[w:Mary Surratt|Mary Surratt]], before being hanged for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. She was the first woman executed by the United States federal government.

* I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.
** Who: [[w:Patrick Swayze|Patrick Swayze]], American actor.
*** Note: As quoted by his family, prior to his death from pancreatic cancer.

* They might come back here. I might have to go. We are going to try to do something about this.
** Who: Brian David Sweeney, passenger aboard [[w:United Airlines Flight 175|United Airlines Flight 175]], which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
*** Note: Like United Airlines Flight 93, it appeared that the passengers aboard also planned to resist the hijackers by storming the cockpit. However, just two minutes later, the plane flew into the South Tower.

* I see water. I see buildings. I see buildings! We are flying low. We are flying very, very low. We are flying way too low. Oh my God we are flying way too low. Oh my God!
**Who: [[w:Madeline Amy Sweeney|Madeline Amy Sweeney]], flight attendant who was on the phone with airline manager Michael Woodward when American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed by terrorists into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

* I'm going to kill you!
** Who: [[w:Carl Switzer|Carl Switzer]]
*** Note: Said during a brawl with an acquaintance over a dispute on money. After screaming the above line, he was shot in the groin.

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* Good morning.
** Who: [[William Howard Taft]], 27th President of the United States

* もうダメ! (''Mō dame!'')
** Translation: We can't do anything now!
** Who: Masami Takahama, captain of [[w:Japan Airlines Flight 123|Japan Airlines Flight 123]]
*** Note: Said just before the flight impacted Mount Takamagahara, killing all but four of 524 people aboard. Sources often state that Takahama's words were "It's the end". The aircraft accident report, however, considers the recorded words indecipherable.

* It is time for a new direction...
** Who: [[w:Andrei Tarkovsky|Andrei Tarkovsky]], as reported by his wife.

* Please — please don't kill me — I don't want to die. I just want to have my baby.
** Who: [[Sharon Tate]], victim of confessed murderer [[w:Susan Atkins|Susan Atkins]] (aka Sadie Mae Glutz) of the Manson family, as reported in the court testimony of Virginia Graham. Atkins told Graham she responded to Tate's plea with: "Look, bitch, you might as well face it right now, you're going to die, and I don't feel a thing behind it."

* I am about to die. I expect the summons very soon. I have tried to discharge my duties faithfully. I regret nothing, but I am sorry I am about to leave my friends.
** Who: [[Zachary Taylor]], 12th President of the United States

* I hope you guys enjoyed my content and that I made some of you laugh, and I hope you all go on to live long, prosperous, and happy lives because I love you guys. Technoblade out.
** Who: [[w:Technoblade|Technoblade]], prominent [[w:Minecraft|Minecraft]] YouTuber and streamer.
*** Note: Written as part of his final message on his father's laptop, eight hours before his death from a Stage 4 sarcoma. The message was read out by his father in a video titled "so long nerds".

* Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!
** Who: [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]]

* Oh that press will have me now!
** Who: [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]

* Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.
** Who: [[Mother Teresa]] (Sept 5, 1997)
*** Note: Sister Nirmala Joshi recalled, "Just hours before her death, Mother Teresa spoke about the Little Flower, St. Therese. She has just been declared a 'Doctor of the Church' by Pope John Paul II. Her last words are: "Can you imagine, for doing little things with great love, the Church is making her a Doctor, like St. Augustine and the big St. Teresa! It is just like Jesus said in the Gospel to the one who was seated in the lowest place: "Friend, come up higher." St. Therese's last words were quite similar, "Oh, I love him; my God, I love you".

* Pity me not. I die as a man of honour ought, in discharge of my duty. They indeed are objects of pity who fight against their king, their country, and their oath.
** Who: [[w:Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard|Pierre Terrail]], seigneur de Bayard (April 30, 1524)
*** Note: ''Le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche'', died of an arquebus shot to the back in battle with the Spaniards. He was propped up against a tree and, for want of a crucifix, he was confessed with his sword. Even the enemy commander attended him at his death.

* 頼むから仕事をさせてくれ！ (''Tanomu kara shigoto wo sasete kure!'')
** Translation: I'm begging you, let me work!
** Who: [[w:Osamu Tezuka|Osamu Tezuka]], legendary Japanese cartoonist and animator
*** He spoke these words as a nurse took his drawing board from his hospital bed and encouraged him to get some sleep.

* Take a picture!
** Who: [[w:Alan Thicke|Alan Thicke]]
*** Thicke had suffered an aortic dissection while playing hockey and joked to his son to take a picture of him. Thicke unexpectedly died after being taken to the hospital.

* Roses plural or Rose's roses with an apostrophe?
** Who: [[Dylan Thomas]]
*** Note: Spoke those words to his girlfriend Liz, who told him that her friend had seen white mice and roses. He lapsed into a coma from excessive drinking and died.

* Is the mic still on?
** Who: [[w:Shannon Charles Thomas|Shannon Charles Thomas]]
*** Note: Thomas, a death row inmate executed by the state of Texas in 2005 for murder, had made a lengthy final statement before the lethal injection started. After the drugs began to take effect he asked this final question.

* Pretty weak, but I'll be all right in a little while, don't worry, darling.
** Who: [[w:Olive Thomas|Olive Thomas]]
*** Note: Thomas had accidentally ingested a lethal dose of her husband's syphilis medicine, composed of the poisonous compound mercuric bichloride. She died three days later, and her husband, Jack, said that these were her last words, a response to his asking how she felt, before she died later that day.

* No more games. No more bombs. No more walking. No more fun. No more swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt.
** Who: [[Hunter S. Thompson]]
*** Note: Said on a suicide note written four days before his death. He was 67 when he took his own life.

* Ah, here we go.
** Who: Ted Thompson, captain of [[w:Alaska Airlines Flight 261|Alaska Airlines Flight 261]]
*** Note: The plane had gone into an upside-down nosedive after the jackscrew assembly failed, causing a loss in pitch control, shortly after recovering from an earlier nosedive caused by unjamming the horizontal stabilizer. The pilots had been attempting to regain control. The plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean about one second later, killing all crew and passengers.

* Moose ... Indian.
** Who: [[Henry David Thoreau]]
*** Note: These words he had said in a delirium before expiring. When urged earlier to make his peace with God his last coherent response was, "I did not know that we had ever quarreled."

* God bless... God damn.
** Who: [[James Thurber]], humorist, d. 1961

* I'm Pat Fucking Tillman
** Who: [[w:Pat Tillman|Pat Tillman]], Former American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) who left his sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002. Killed in action as a result of friendly fire. <ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/08/-im-pat-fucking-tillman/183466/</ref>

*No, I'm not!
** Who: American musician, music historian and ukulele player [[w:Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim]] (real name: Herbert Khaury)
** Tiny Tim suffered a heart attack while playing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" at a Gala Benefit. His wife asked him if he was okay and he said, "No, I'm not!" After that he collapsed and died at a hospital in Minnesota.

* ''Mihi vita immerenti eripitur; neque enim extat ullum meum factum paenitendum expecto dumtaxat uno.''
** Translation: I deserve not death, but I repent nothing else in my life except for one thing.
** Who: [[w:Titus|Titus]], Roman Emperor

*Get out here. I'm getting killed.
** [[w:Timothy Treadwell|Timothy Treadwell]] to his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, as he was being mauled to death by a bear. Huguenard was also killed.
** {{cite news
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| last = Medred
| url = http://www.adn.com/2003/10/09/585763/treadwell-get-out-here-im-getting.html
| title = Treadwell: 'Get out here. I'm getting killed'
| work = Anchorage Daily News
| date = [[October 9]], [[2003]]
| accessdate = 2010-06-02
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*I am very sorry it is taking me so long to die. The Greater East Asia War was justified and righteous. I am very sorry for the nation and all the races of the Greater Asiatic powers. I wait for the righteous judgment of history. I wished to commit suicide but sometimes that fails.
** Who: [[Hideki Tōjō]]
*** Note: He said these words after unsuccessfully trying to shoot himself in the heart.

* Yes.
** Who: [[w:Alice B. Toklas|Alice B. Toklas]]
*** Note: Her response when asked if she wanted to die.

*But the peasants...how do the peasants die?
**Who: [[Leo Tolstoy]]

*I'm at 900 feet. I don't think I can make the airport. Negative on the airport.
** Who: [[w:Peter Tomarken|Peter Tomarken]], game show host
*** Note: Spoken over his plane's [[w:Cockpit voice recorder|CVR]], moments before it splashed into Santa Monica Bay, killing him and his wife Kathleen.

*Yes, it'll be 150, Forest Lawn Cemetery, in the back of a Ford pickup.
** Who: [[w:Dick Trickle|Dick Trickle]], NASCAR driver
*** Note: From a 911 call asking who was going to commit suicide. Trickle responded with "I'm the one." His granddaughter, who died in a car accident, was buried in the same cemetery.

*I will not survive this attack. Stalin has finally accomplished the task he attempted unsuccessfully before.
** Who: [[Leon Trotsky]]
** According to: [[James P. Cannon]], the secretary of the Socialist Workers Party (USA)
** ''Don't kill this man. He has a story to tell.''
*** Right after being hurt, Trotsky said this to his guards, who were about to kill [[w:Ramón Mercader|Mercader]], the man who had mortally wounded him with an ice axe.
** ''I am close to death from the blow a political assassin... struck me down in my room. I struggled with him... we... entered... talk about French statistics... he struck me... Please say to our friends... I am sure... of the victory... of the Fourth International... Onward''
*** These are his last words as recorded by [[w:Isaac Deutscher |Isaac Deutscher]] in his book ''The Prophet Outcast''.

*I go to prepare a place for you.
*Swing low, swing chariot.
** Who: [[Harriet Tubman]], African-American abolitionist and political activist
*** Note: The first quote was said to friends and family at her deathbed. One account states that Tubman told a clergyman, "Give my love to all the churches", and then a variation of the first quote which is a farewell passage that Tubman learned from [[w:Matthew the Apostle|Matthew]]: "I go away to prepare a place for you, and where I am ye may be also". The second quote is attributed to a report that Tubman gathered her family around and they sang together.

*Yes sir, I would like to say to all of you – the Thornton family and Jerry Dean's family that I am so sorry. I hope God will give you peace with this. Baby, I love you. Ron, give Peggy a hug for me. Everybody has been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I am going to be face to face with Jesus now. Warden Baggett, thank all of you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.
** Who: [[w:Karla Faye Tucker|Karla Faye Tucker]]
*** Note: Last words before being executed by lethal injection

* אין דבר, טוב למות בעד ארצנו (''Ein davar, tov lamut be'ad arzenu'')
** ''Translation:'' Never mind; it is good to die for our country
** Who: [[w:Joseph Trumpeldor|Joseph Trumpeldor]] (1880-1920)
** Trumpeldor was a soldier and early pioneer/settler in Israel, he died defending the Tel-Hai settlment from an Arab attack.
** Variant Translation: It is all right; It is better to die for our country
*** Note: Modern Israeli jocular rumor claims Trumpeldor's true last words were merely a juicy Russian curse.

*The sun is God.
**Who: [[J. M. W. Turner]]

*It's in God's hands now.
** Who: [[Nat Turner]], enslaved African-American preacher and leader of a [[w:Nat Turner's slave rebellion|slave rebellion]], which he was later executed for.
*** Note: Said immediately before he was hanged.

*Good bye. If we meet-
** Who: [[Mark Twain]]
*** Note: Spoken to his daughter Clara.

*Doctor, I am going. ''[Doctor: "I hope not, sir."]'' Perhaps it is best.
** Who: [[John Tyler]], 10th President of the United States

=U=
*Tell the boys I'm coming home.
** Who: [[w:Wilbur Underhill|Wilbur Underhill]], bank robber.

*No WWE talent becomes a legend on their own. Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe their final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized. By the story tellers, by the loyalty, by the memory of those who honor him and make the running the man did live forever. You, you, you, you, you, you are the legend makers of Ultimate Warrior. In the back I see many potential legends. Some of them with warrior spirits. And you will do the same for them. You will decide if they lived with the passion and intensity. So much so that you will tell your stories and you will make them legends, as well. I am Ultimate Warrior. You are the Ultimate Warrior fans. And the spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will run forever!
** Who: [[w:The Ultimate Warrior|Ultimate Warrior]], American professional wrestler.
*** Note: Spoken on the April 7, 2014 edition of ''[[w:WWE Raw|WWE Monday Night Raw]]'', addressing the live audience in what would be his final live appearance. The next day, he would die of a heart attack. Although these are not technically his last words, they are the last words the public heard him say.

*There is shooting, people are being terrorized, people are inside their homes lying on the floor. We are suffering the consequences of the death of the head of state, I believe. We, the civilians, are in no way responsible for the death of our head of state.
** Who: [[w:Agathe Uwilingiyimana|Agathe Uwilingiyimana]], Prime Minister of Rwanda. Better known as "Madame Agathe".
*** Note: This was part of an interview with [[w:Radio France|Radio France]] on the night of President [[w:Juvénal Habyarimana|Juvénal Habyarimana]]'s assassination. The following day, Rwandan troops stormed Madame Agathe's home and killed her. This event helped set off the [[w:Rwandan genocide|Rwandan genocide]].

=V=
* Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!
** Who: [[w:Rudolph Valentino|Rudolph Valentino]], Italo-American actor and ''Latin Lover''.

* I wish we could be there; you know how I love a party.
** Who: [[w:Rudy Vallée|Rudy Vallee]], one of the first American crooners.
** "There" was the centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty, which Vallee was watching on television.

*There is but one reliance.
** Who: [[Martin Van Buren]], 8th President of the United States

* ''Genade, genade! We kunnen er toch over praten?''
** Translation: Mercy, mercy! Can't we talk this over?
** Who: [[w:Theo van Gogh|Theo van Gogh]], Dutch film director and publicist.
*** Note: Van Gogh said this to his murderer Mohammed Bouyeri, just before the latter stabbed him in his throat.

* ''La tristesse durera toujours.''
** Translation: The sadness will last forever.
** Who: [[Vincent van Gogh]], Dutch painter.

* It is hovering and it's not an aircraft.
** Who: [[w:Valentich disappearance|Frederick Valentich]]
*** Note: These were the last recorded words of Valentich, an Australian pilot, who disappeared after contacting air traffic control claiming to be pursued by a purported UFO.

* I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
** Who: [[w:William Henry Vanderbilt|William Henry Vanderbilt]] (1821-1885), American businessman

* ''...e saio da vida, para entrar na história.''
** Translation: ...and I leave life so that I can walk into history.
** Who: [[w:Getulio Vargas|Getulio Vargas]], Brazilian President.
*** Note: These were the last words written in his suicide letter.

* Please leave the window open.
** Who: [[w:Jim Varney|Jim Varney]], actor.
*** Note: These words were said to Varney's companion before dying from lung cancer.

* All right then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
** Who: [[w:Lope de Vega|Lope de Vega]], famous playwright, on being assured that the end was very near.

* ''La Révolution est comme Saturne : elle dévore ses propres enfants.''
** Translation: The revolution is like Saturn: It devours its own children.
** Who: [[Pierre Vergniaud]], French revolutionary

* ''Vae, puto, deus fio... imperatorem stantem oportet mori.'' (when he thought he was dying)
** Translation: Woe, I think I'm turning into a god... An emperor should die on his feet.
** Who: [[w:Vespasian|Vespasian]], Roman emperor
** Source: [[Suetonius]]
*** Note: And indeed, Vespasian was deified after his death. This comment is thought to be sarcastic, expressing Vespasian's disdain for apotheosis.

*We made a death pact, and I have to accomplish my part of the deal. Please bury me next to my baby. Please bury me with my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye. With love, Sid.
** Who: [[Sid Vicious]], bassist of the [[Sex Pistols]]
*** Note: Talking about his girlfriend, Nancy, who had died a month earlier.

* For hearing, we need a language.
** Who: [[w:M. N. Vijayan|M. N. Vijayan]]
**** Note: Vijayan died from a massive heart attack during a recorded speech. These were his last words.

* ''Ho offeso Dio e l'umanità perché il mio lavoro non ha raggiunto la qualità che dovrebbe avere.''
** Translation: I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.
** Who: [[Leonardo da Vinci]]

*''Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces.''
** Translation: Mantua bore me, Calabria snatched me away, now Naples holds me; I sang of pastures, fields, and kings.
** Who: [[Virgil]], Roman Poet, he wrote the [[w:Eclogues|Eclogues]] (pastoral poetry), the [[w:Georgics|Georgics]] (ostensibly a didactic guide to farming), and the [[w:Aeneid|Aeneid]] (the foundation myth of Rome), hence "pastures, fields and kings."

* Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies. [''attributed'']
** Who: [[Voltaire]], when asked by a priest to renounce Satan
*** Note: Other sources say his final words were "I am abandoned by God and man! I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months' life. Then I shall go to hell; and you will go with me. O Christ! O Jesus Christ!"; the earliest report of this version was by Charles Buck, an American preacher, who wrote of it in 1822, more than forty years after the death of Voltaire.
** Another variant is "For God sake, leave me alone!", when asked by the priest to renounce Satan.

=W=
* The doctor says I won't get home for the celebration.
** Who: [[w:Robert Wadlow|Robert Wadlow]], Also known as the Alton Giant, tallest man in the world
*** Note: This is what Wadlow said before he died in his sleep.

* ''Meine Uhr!''
** Translation: My watch!
** Who: [[Richard Wagner]], German composer
*** Note: Wagner was dying in his wife's arms when a watch fell from his pocket onto the floor. These words have been contradicted by other sources. The words "Love – Tragedy" have also been attributed as his final; his last recorded words were "I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing."

* Let's go for a drive.
** Who: [[Paul Walker]]

* Take me home. I was born in the South and I wish to die and be buried in the South.
** Who: [[Booker T. Washington]]

* I am just going. Have me decently buried and do not let my body be into a vault in less than two days after I am dead. Do you understand me? [''"Yes," replied Tobias Lear, his secretary.''] {{'}}Tis well.
**Who: [[George Washington]], first President of the United States
*** Note: Washington had a fear of being buried alive.

* Ain't that a bitch.
** Who: [[w:Johnny Watson|Johnny "Guitar" Watson]], American blues, soul, and funk musician.

* I am very sensible of the attatchment you show me, and I hasten to thank you for it, as I feel I am now come to my last illness.
** Who: [[w:James Watt|James Watt]], Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist.
*** Note: He was speaking to his friends, who were at his bedside.

*I'm out of here, man. I'm gone. Keep me in your hearts.
** Who: Kevin Watts
*** Note: Last words before being executed by lethal injection for a triple murder.

*Carry me to the fort, boys. Let's go forward.
** Who: [[Anthony Wayne]]
*** Note: The "fort" might be Fort Presque Isle, which is now Erie, PA.

*Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.
** Who: [[John Wayne]], spoken to his wife.

* This is your friend. Don't forget to tell me how your mother is.
** Who: [[Orson Welles]]
*** Note: Message left on a friend's answering machine before he died.

* Go away. I'm all right.
** Who: [[H. G. Wells]]
*** Note: Wells did not realize he was dying.

*The best of all is: God is with us.
** Who: [[John Wesley]]

*Get 'em all out of here!
** Who: Roy Westerfield, Company Comptroller for Pacific Engineering Production Company of Nevada ([[w:PEPCON disaster|PEPCON]]) of Henderson, Nevada
*** Note: Moments before the plant was engulfed in a massive explosion on May 4, 1988, he was talking to a fire department dispatcher over the telephone, when he shouted those words to fellow employee Bruce Halker, who was guiding other employees out of the building. They were both killed in the explosion.[http://classiclasvegas.squarespace.com/classic-las-vegas-blog/2008/5/6/pepcon-explosion-20-years-gone.html]

*What did I do wrong?
** Who: [[w:Murder of Jacob Wetterling|Jacob Wetterling]]
*** Note: Jacob Wetterling was an 11-year old boy who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by pedophile Danny Heinrich on October 22, 1989. Years later, Heinrich himself admitted that Wetterling said these words before he killed him by shooting him twice in the head.

* I ''know'' it!
** Who: Captain Larry Wheaton to First Officer Roger Pettit of [[w:Air Florida Flight 90|Air Florida Flight 90]], January 13, 1982. Spoken in response to Pettit's comment, "Larry! We're going down, Larry!"

* Let's go, I'm ready to go for this thing, we can win this thing!
** Who: [[w:Dan Wheldon|Dan Wheldon]], two time Indianapolis 500 winner and 2005 IndyCar Champion
*** Note: According to his team owner at the time, Sam Schmidt, these were his last words over his team radio during the early stages of the 2011 IndyCar IZOD World Championships at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Eleven laps into the event, a fifteen-car accident in Turn 3 launched his car into the air, and up against the catchfence, killing him instantly.

* Leave me alone - I'm fine.
** Who: [[w:Barry White|Barry White]]

* Allen!
** Who: [[w:Betty White|Betty White]], American comedienne
*** Note: Reportedly. If genuine, probably referring to her late husband [[w:Allen Ludden|Allen Ludden]], who had died 40 years prior.[https://pagesix.com/2022/01/03/vicki-lawrence-reveals-betty-whites-last-word-before-death/]

* Shift! Shift!
** Who: [[w:Walt Whitman|Walt Whitman]]

* My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
** Who: [[Oscar Wilde]]
** Variation: These curtains are killing me, one of us has got to go.
** Popular variation often found in "Famous Last Words"-lists: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."
*** Note: Mr. Wilde said this in the Left Bank hotel where he died on November 30 1900, the wallpaper has since been removed and the room re-furnished in the style of one of Mr. Wilde's London flats.
** Quibble: He actually said this a couple of weeks before his death.
** He was also reported to have ordered a bottle of the hotel's most expensive champagne to later say: I am dying beyond my means.
** Oscar Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on 30 November 1900. The last words he tried to utter were the Holy Names, the Acts of Contrition, Faith, Hope and Charity, with acts of humble resignation to the Will of God, which are all part of the Last Sacraments that were administered to him on 29 November.

* ''A mon Madame, de Sacré Maria, jo comant cros, a il, a ses preres, vait moi acorder a privé Fiz, nostre Seignur, Jhesu Christ.''
** Translation: To my Lady, the Holy Mary, I commend myself; that she, by her prayers, may reconcile me to her most dear Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
** Who: [[William the Conqueror|William I of England]], aka [[w:William the Conqueror|William the Conqueror]].

* ''Descorde, Walter, a nom de le deable!''
** Translation: Shoot, Walter, in the devil's name!
** Who: [[w:William II of England|William II of England]]

* Can this last long?
** Who: [[William III of England]], when his doctor told him that he was ill.

* ''Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, ayez pitié de mon âme et de ce pauvre peuple.''
** Translation: My Lord, my Lord, have pity upon my soul and these poor people.
** Who: [[William the Silent]], Father of the Netherlands. He was shot and died soon after.

* That's a nice way to die. They was laughing when I made my last exit.
** Who: [[w:Bert Williams|Bert Williams]], one of the first successful black vaudevillians
*** Note: Williams collapsed on-stage in 1922, which the audience presumed was part of the comedy act and laughed.

* Oh, what's the bloody point?
** Who: [[w:Kenneth Williams|Kenneth Williams]], British actor and raconteur. This was the final entry in his diary.

* Goodnight, my love. Goodnight. Goodnight.
** Who: [[Robin Williams]]
*** Note: Spoken to his wife Susan on the night before he committed suicide; she confirmed that these were the last words he said to her in an interview on ABC News.

* You guys doin' that right?
** Who: [[W:Stanley Williams|Stanley 'Tookie' Williams]], gangster and co-founder of [[W:The Crips|The Crips]], d. December 13, 2005. Said to his executioners who appeared to be having trouble operating the machinery.

* The act of taking my own life is not something I am doing without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights that anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.
** Who: [[W:Wendy O. Williams|Wendy O. Williams]], punk rock performer

* Man, it's just raining like a son of a gun.
** Who: Kelley Williamson, [[w:storm chasing|storm chaser]] and co-host of The Weather Channel series Storm Wranglers.
*** Note: During a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN08-h8DY6Q livestreamed storm chase] on March 28, 2017, Williamson uttered these words just before he sped through a stop sign near the town of Spur, Texas (the stream audio and video cuts out moments before entering the junction). The car struck a Jeep driven by another storm chaser, and Williamson, not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle and killed instantly. Series co-host Randy Yarnall, who was Williamson's passenger, and the driver of the Jeep were also killed instantly.

* My heart is crying, crying...
** Who: [[w:Jackie Wilson|Jackie Wilson]], American singer and performer
*** Note: On 29 September 1975, he was singing his hit song "Lonely Teardrops" when he suffered a massive heart attack on stage at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, NJ. The lack of oxygen to his brain left him comatose for the remainder of his life. He died nine years later on 21 January 1984. {{cite book |title= Notable Last Facts: A Compendium of Endings, Conclusions, Terminations and Final Events Throughout History|last= Brahms|first= William B. |year= 2005|publisher= [[Reference Desk Press, Inc]]|location= Haddonfield, NJ|isbn= 978-09765325-0-6|page= 354}}.

*Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.
** Who: [[Robert Anton Wilson]], Philosopher, Playwright, Science Fiction Author. Final blog entry, five days before his death  (6 January 2007)

*I'm not going to waste no time talking about my lifestyle, my case, my punishment. Mom, you've been there for me from the beginning. I love you. To my nieces, nephew and uncle I love you very much. Y'all stick together. Don't worry about me. I'm OK.
** Who: [[w:Willie Williams (murderer)|William James "Flip" Williams, Jr.]], executed by the State of Ohio for murder. He was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m. EDT on October 25, 2005 after the lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. He did not have a last meal request, though did have a cup of coffee. His final statement is recorded above.

* I am a broken piece of machinery. When the machine is broken... I am ready.
** Who: [[Woodrow Wilson]], 28th President of the United States

* I don't want to die.
** Who: [[Amy Winehouse]]
*** Note: Spoken to her doctor over the phone two hours prior to her death.

* Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
** Who: [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]
*** Note: This came as a surprise to the friends that heard this, as he was considered not to have lived an easy life.

* Six one going down.
** Who: Chief Warrant Officer Cliff "Elvis" Wolcott, pilot of black hawk helicopter Super Six One.
*** Note: Wolcott's helicopter was shot down by an RPG during the [[w:Battle of Mogadishu|Battle of Mogadishu]]. This was his last recorded radio transmission; he and copilot CWO Donovan "Bull" Briley were killed in the crash.
**Source: [[w:Black Hawk Down (book)|Black Hawk Down]].

* Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.
** Who: [[Virginia Woolf]], author, in her suicide note to her husband. d. March 28, 1941

* Yes, I would just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back, like ''Independence Day'' with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I'll be back, I'll be back.
** Who: [[w:Aileen Wuornos|Aileen Wuornos]], convicted and executed serial killer.

=X=
* Brothers! Brothers, please! This is a house of peace!
** Who: [[Malcolm X]]
** Other reports have his last words being "Now, now, brothers, break it up, be cool, be calm."
*** Note: Two men were staging a fight in the audience he was addressing to distract attention from assassins who were drawing their guns to shoot him. Reportedly, Malcolm was dead before his body struck the floor.

* In Thee, O Lord, have I trusted.
** Who: [[w:Francisco Ximenez de Cisneros|Francisco Ximenez de Cisneros]]
*** Note: A prayer from the Psalms.

=Y=
* I don't blame my executioners. I'll pray that the Gods bless them. Please send my thankful word to Col. Clarke and Lt. Col. Feldhaus, Lt. Col. Hendrix, Maj. Guy, Capt. Sandburg, Capt. Reel, at Manila court, and Col. Arnard. I thank you. I pray for the Emperor's long life and prosperity forever.
**Who: General [[Tomoyuki Yamashita]]

* 나의 죽음을 알리지 마라. (''Naui jug-eum-eul alliji mala.'')
** Translation: Do not let my death be known.
** Who: General [[w:Yi Sun-sin|Yi Sun-sin]], a Korean naval commander.
*** Note: He told his nephew to wear his armor and to hide his death until the battle is over to avoid demoralizing his men in the middle of battle.

* Kill me good.
** Who: [[w:Lum You|Lum You]], convicted murderer.
*** Note: Spoken to his executioner.

* והכינו כסא לחזקיהו מלך יהודה שבא (''Vehachinu kisse leChizkiyyahu melech Yehudah shebba'')
** Translation: And prepare a throne for Hezekiah, King of Judah, who is coming.
** Who: [[w:Yohanan ben Zakkai|Yohanan ben Zakkai]]

* Joseph! Joseph! Joseph!
** Who: [[Brigham Young]]
*** Referring to his predecessor as LDS Church president, [[Joseph Smith, Jr.]]

=Z=
* Let's rock.
**Who: [[w:Edmund Zagorski|Edmund Zagorski]], convicted murderer, shortly before execution November 1, 2018.

* You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You one of capitalist! You is crook man, too! Put me in electric chair! I no care! [''upon a minister trying to calm him''] Get the hell out of here, you son of a bitch! [''resuming his initial speech''] I got sit down all by myself... Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere! Lousy capitalist! No picture! No one here to take my picture! All capitalists lousy bunch of crooks! [''as his head was strapped in''] Adios to all the world! Go ahead! Push the button!
**Who: [[w:Giuseppe Zangara|Giuseppe Zangara]], who in 1933 had attempted to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in doing so mortally wounded Chicago mayor Anton Cermak. His last words were dramatized in the 1991 musical ''[[w:Assassins (musical)|Assassins]] '' by [[Stephen Sondheim]] and [[John Weidman]].

* ירא יהוה וידרש (''Yerei Yawe v'yid'rosh'')
** Translation: May Yahweh see and avenge!
*** Who: [[w:Zechariah ben Jehoiada|Zechariah ben Jehoiada]]

* 我感觉不舒服。打电话给医生。 (''Wǒ gǎnjué bú shūfú. Dǎ diànhuà gěi yīshēng.'')
** Translation: I feel ill. Call the doctors.
*** Who: [[Mao Zedong]]

* I'm about to board a boat full of white snow.
** Who: [[w:Oscar Zeta Acosta|Oscar Zeta Acosta]]
** Spoken to his son shortly before his disappearance in Mexico. His son surmises that Zeta angered the drug cartels with whom he was dealing, who in turn killed him and hid or disposed of the body.

* Well, we fooled 'em for a long time, didn't we?
** Who: [[w:Zip the Pinhead|William Henry "Zip the Pinhead" Johnson]], spoken to his sister, Sarah van Duyne
** Also known as "What-Is-It?", he was a circus sideshow performer, known for his oddly tapered head. While he was presented as a [[w:Microcephaly|microcephalic]] (or "pin-head'), he was not one in reality, nor did he have any mental disabilities as do authentic microcephalics.

* Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
** Who: [[w:Florenz Ziegfeld|Florenz Ziegfeld]], Showman
*** Note: He shouted these words in a delirium on his deathbed.

* Uh, we climbing to four thousand, two echo x-ray.
** Who: [[w:2020 Calabasas helicopter crash|Ara Zobayan]], pilot of the [[w:2020 Calabasas helicopter crash|Kobe Bryant helicopter crash]]
*** Note: [https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/document.cfm?docID=484471&docketID=63911&mkey=100863 Last transmission sent by Zobayan at 9:45:19am], in response to SCT TRACON asking for the pilot's intentions after confirming flight following for N72EX. The pilot, likely losing situational awareness due to flying in low visibility, accidentally crashed into a mountainside twenty seconds later. All nine onboard, including Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna, were killed instantly.

* Farewell, comrades! Fight, do not be afraid! [[Stalin]] is with us! Stalin will come!
** Who: [[w:Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya|Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] partisan
*** Note: She was executed after acts of sabotage against the invading armies of [[Nazi Germany]].

=?=

* Not bloody likely!
** Who: Unknown British Sergeant
*** Note: Reportedly said during the last stand of the 44th Regiment of Foot, in response to an offer of surrender, shortly before their massacre by Afghan fighters at the Battle of Gandamak.

* ''Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen? Sich füß heißen lügen. Wenn es einen Gott gibt, muß er mich um Verzeihung bitten.''
** Translation: My god, why have you forsaken me? To bend means to lie. If there is a god, he must ask me forgiveness.
** Who: Unknown concentration camp prisoner
*** Note: These words were found scribbled into a cell wall at the Mauthausen concentration camp, its author a Jewish prisoner. 'To bend means to lie' is from a 1920 poem titled "The Prisoner", written by Erich Mühsam, a German-Jewish antimilitarist anarchist poet.

*Ma, I love you.
** Who: Unidentified [[w:PSA Flight 182|PSA Flight 182]] crew member.
*** Note: Last words recorded by the CVR of the flight, shortly after colliding mid-air with a Cessna while attempting to land. The plane crashed three seconds later.

* June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed.
** Who: Unidentified Union Soldier
*** Note: Found in a blood-spattered diary on the body of an anonymous Union soldier on [[w:Battle of Cold Harbor|June 3, 1864]].

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Julius Malema

2022-04-11T10:00:40Z

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[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]
'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

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Julius Malema

2022-04-11T09:59:21Z

JMK: Stellenbosch, 2022

[[File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14 cropped.jpg|thumb|We are worse [off] than we were during the times of [[apartheid]].]]
'''[[w:Julius Malema|Julius Sello Malema]]''' (born [[3 March]] [[1981]]) is the leader of the [[w:Economic Freedom Fighters|Economic Freedom Fighters]], a [[w:South African|South African]] political party, which he founded in July 2013.

==Quotes==
*'''Malema:''' So these popcorn and mushrooming political parties in Zimbabwe, they will never find friendship in us. They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices of [[:w:Sandton|Sandton]], we are unshaken. They must stop shouting at us, they must go and fight with their battle in Zimbabwe and win. Even if they've got ground and they are formed on the basis of solid ground in Zim, why are they speaking in Sandton and not Mashonaland or Matabeleland? ... Let them go back and go and fight there. Even when the ANC was underground in exile, we had our internal underground forces fighting for freedom. '''Fisher:''' You live in Sandton. '''Malema:''' And we have never spoken from ... exile. Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' [i.e. chatty]. This is a building of a revolutionary party, and you know nothing about the revolution. '''Fisher:''' So, so they are not welcome in Sandton but you are? '''Malema:''' So here you behave or else you jump. [Fisher and others laugh.] Don't laugh. '''Fisher:''' You're joking. '''Malema:''' Chief, can you get security to remove this thing here. If you are not going to behave ... call security to take you out. This is not a news room this. This is a revolutionary house. And you don't come here with that tendency. Don't come here with that white tendency, not here. ... If you've got a tendency of undermining blacks even while you work, you are in a wrong place ... '''Fisher:''' That's rubbish. '''Malema:''' ... and you can go out! '''Fisher:''' Absolutely rubbish. '''Malema:''' Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. ... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. ... Bastard! Go out! You bloody agent! ... So we think that we need to ensure that we encourage Zanu PF comrades to engage in peaceful means.
** Outburst against reporter [[:w:Jonah Fisher|Jonah Fisher]] at [[:w:Luthuli House|Luthuli House]] on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist] (8 April 2010)

* We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.
** To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in [http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/31/malema-apartheid-was-better "Malema: Apartheid was better"], in ''Times Live'' (31 August 2012)

* Absolutely, what we need to do is that companies must just surrender 51%. ... They have exploited the wealth of that country [South Africa] for far too long. It is time that the people are now beginning to benefit. Our people don't have money to buy those shares, and they will never have money to buy those shares. ... Under president Mbeki they had 2/3 majority, they could have done anything they wanted. Till today they have not done anything. ... because the ANC did not want to tamper with the economic structure and ... property ownership ... We are going to engage in a very persuasive, peaceful engagement with capital. ... We are meeting captains of the industry. Some of them are beginning to respond to our memorandum. Some are saying, well these are doable proposals. ... We'll not use that [civil disobedience] until that our people are pushed to the limit. ... These people are prepared to give shares to the black elite who are politically connected. ... why not give it to the workers themselves who are ... making this company ... what it is.
** In a television interview with [[:w:Zeinab Badawi|Zeinab Badawi]] of BBC HARDtalk in December 2015, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/government/106007/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist/ Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist], Staff writer, BusinessTech (2 December 2015)

* There is nothing wrong with crushing white supremacy. It is wrong to think you’re superior to others on the basis of the colour of your skin ... and what perpetuates that is the economic exclusion of our people. ... If we can’t find the necessary skill‚ let’s go and fetch the old man. ‘Old man‚ you are coming to mentor this young one to produce the best product’ to build a better SA.
** At Midrand on 3 June 2016, [http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/06/10/my-hatred-of-white-supremacy-isnt-a-hatred-of-whites-says-malema My hatred of white supremacy isn’t a hatred of whites‚ says Malema], in ''BusinessDay'' (10 June 2016)

* Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. ... White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. ... What we do with it is none of your business. [[:w:Solomon Mahlangu|Solomon Mahlangu]] died for this land.
** On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, [http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema] (16 April 2016)

* Zuma ... stands in the way towards acquiring land for our people. That is why we will continue attacking him, ... We are at war with whites who took our land and we now want it back. We want our land and we want our wealth; if you stand in our way we will crush you, ...
** To about 800 supporters at the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre hall on 29 May 2016, [https://www.enca.com/south-africa/zuma-will-be-forgiven-over-nkandla-if-he-acts-on-land-issue-malema Zuma will be forgiven for Nkandla if he acts on land issue: Malema] (30 May 2016)

* So black people, you are subjects of white people. Even under ANC, even under the so-called democracy, you are subject, you are servant of white people. No white man will be served by me. I do not serve white masters. ... I am here to disturb the white man's peace. ... The white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man's peace, because we have never known peace. We don't know what peace looks like. ... They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land. We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man's arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. ... They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land. And we don't owe anyone apology about that. ... Revolution is about making those who are comfortable uncomfortable. ... Revolution is about disturbing the peace of those who are swimming in a peaceful environment through exploitation of the working class. ... Our strategic objective is the defeat of white monopoly capital. And that defeat [...] means the ownership of property must change and be transferred into the hands of the people. Their mines must be nationalized, the banks must be nationalized, the land must be expropriated without compensation. ... But white minority be warned, we will take our land no matter what.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Newcastle Magistrates court on 7 November 2016, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/we-are-not-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-people-at-least-for-now-malema/ “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.” Malema], Ezra Claymore, The South African, 8 November 2016, and a [https://twitter.com/tshidi_lee/status/795572416290443264/video/1 video] by Matshidiso Madia. See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBi3z-1yAs Malema addresses supporters after appearing in court, 7 November 2016], SABC News, ''YouTube''

* I am not for reconciliation, I am for justice. There is no reconciliation without justice and justice is the return of land. [...] [[w:AfriForum|AfriForum]] is a [[w:boeremag|boeremag]]. It’s a group of [[w:Afrikaners|Afrikaners]] who still wish for [[w:Apartheid|apartheid]]. They will never see it. Afrikaner boys, ''die poppe sal dans''. The EFF is coming for you boys. Afrikaner boys, the ANC has made you to think this thing is still [[w:Orange Free State|Orange Free State]]. This thing is not Orange Free State. This is [[w:Free State (province)|Free State]]. When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place. Just pray, pray to [your] ancestors, pray to [[w:Daniel François Malan|Malan]], pray to [[w:Hendrik Verwoerd|Verwoerd]], pray and ask them for EFF not to come into power. Because [if] we come into power, Afrikaner men, this side! This is where you belong, this is how you are going to behave. They must know, these Afrikaner males, they must know, we are not scared of them ideologically, politically and otherwise. We can take each other toe to toe.
** To EFF supporters after appearing in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, 14 November 2016, [http://www.thesouthafrican.com/watch-when-we-take-over-power-afrikaner-males-you-will-know-your-place-malema-video/ Watch: “When we take over power, Afrikaner males, you will know your place.” Malema [video]], Ezra Claymore, ''The South African'' (14 November 2016). See also: [http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1344722/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema/], [http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/lnn/226059/afrikaner-boys-die-poppe-sal-dans-malema], [http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/de-klerk-must-suffer-malema-20161114]

* One of the things that we can learn [from] the Cubans is that they are highly politically [[w:Critical consciousness|conscientized]]. ...they understand what constitute progress and what constitute the enemy. And they have come to appreciate that they are in the situation they are because of the choice they have made, of not wanting to follow what the big brother America says they must do. And they know that if it was not [for the] illegal embargo imposed on them, they were actually going to be a much much more better country. Look at them, they have succeeded, the better education, better healthcare, the illiteracy levels are extreme low, under difficult circumstances. [The] quality of education, the quality of primary healthcare [of some country's without embargoes] is nothing compared to a country [Cuba] which is suffering from a serious economic embargo. So we can learn from the Cubans through their determination, through their appreciation that they are a unique nation, and have chosen their path, and they will lead by their conviction. [Interviewer Bryce-Pease asks Malema about Cuba's socialist-democratic model, lack of human rights, lack of freedom of association or freedom of speech among the opposition, and whether South Africa should take those as lessons.] Malema: ...if they think that their model works for them I am not the one to impose on them what should be the type of political systems in Cuba. They are the ones who can chose which direction they want to take. [Bryce-Pease: Do you see a model like Cuba existing in South Africa?] Malema: When we can do actually much better, our democratic system is intact, it is working [...] but there are a lot of things to learn from Cuba [for instance] inculcating the history of the revolution in our education system, so that everybody else is conscientized... Of course there will be some few elements who are not happy. ... [Castro] is bound to commit mistakes but generally we are more than happy with the type of work he has done for the Cubans and for the Africans as well, having contributed to the decolonization of Africa and the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa...
** In Cuba, after paying his respects at [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]'s funeral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy8ALs-aIo Julius Malema in Cuba for Castro's funeral], ''SABC News'' (5 December 2016)

* We all know that the Dutch gangsters arrived here and took our land by force. And the struggle has since been about the return of the land to the hands of rightful owners. ... Yet those who went to negotiate for our people during the [Codesa] negotiations sold out this fundamental principle, which constituted the struggle against colonialism.
** On 26 February 2017, as quoted by Austil Mathebula in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1442435/anc-totally-rejects-malemas-6-offer-for-land-expropriation/ ANC ‘totally’ rejects Malema’s 6% offer for land expropriation], ''The Citizen'' (28 February 2017)

*Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us.
**Speech in 2016, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/hating-the-white-africans "Hating the white Africans"] (14 November 2018), by James Myburgh, ''PoliticsWeb'', South Africa

* The rejection of other Africans is a self-rejection, it is a self-hatred, it's because you don't know who you are. If you know who you are you will never reject people from DRC, you will never reject people from Nigeria, you will never reject people from Ghana, you will never reject people from Zimbabwe, because if you [ap]praise your history, your are actually Zimbabwean, if you [ap]praise your history, you are actually Nigerian. That is what makes us African. That is the beauty of Africa, we share history, we share culture, and all of that. Civilization started here.
** On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, [https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/ Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us], Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)

* We also want to call upon our fellow Indians here in Natal to respect Africans. They are ill-treating them worse than Afrikaners will do. We don’t want that to continue here in Natal. This is not anti-Indian statement, it is the truth. Indians who own shops don't pay our people, but they give them food parcels. They must be paid a minimum wage. We're not going to nurse feelings here.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Aaisha Dadi Patel in [https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-02-malema-might-have-a-point-about-south-african-indian-people Malema might have a point about South African Indian people], ''Mail & Guardian'' (2 August 2017)

* If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.
** At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729 Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema], ''News24'' (29 July 2017)

* I heard that these whites are coming to march again, they will announce a new date. I’m thinking national chair we must organise a counter-march and meet them half way. We cannot allow white people to do as they wish in this country, like they’re doing in Palestine. Let them announce the day they’re coming back. Let us meet them toe to toe, let us teach them who owns South Africa. We cannot be harassed in our own country during apartheid and be harassed in our own country during a democratic dispensation by a nonsense Afrikaner community. It must come to an end, let us meet them toe to toe.
** In response to the Black Monday protests, while addressing EFF members on 2 November 2017 outside the Israeli Embassy, Pretoria, [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1714102/watch-how-malema-plans-to-teach-nonsense-afrikaner-community-who-really-owns-sa/ How Malema plans to teach ‘nonsense’ Afrikaner community who really owns SA], Citizen reporter (2 November 2017)

* Every land in South Africa should be expropriated without compensation and it will be under the state. The state should be the custodian of the land. ... No one is going to lose his or her house, no one is going to lose his or her flat, no one is going to lose his or her factory or industry. All we are saying is they will not have the ownership of the land.
** On 27 February 2018 to journalists outside the National Assembly, Cape Town, as quoted by Nic Andersen, [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/no-one-will-lose-house-malema-land-expropriation/ “No one will lose their house or factory” – Malema clarifies land expropriation], ''The South African'' (28 February 2018)

* Chinese are like Indians. They think they're close to whiteness. When they practice racism they even become worse than whites. There are even Blacks who mimic whiteness. All of this needs to be confronted.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD], and retweeted on [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 #RegisterToVoteEFF] (1 March 2018)

* I know for a fact that Chinese are taking over strategic sectors in Africa. Their ownership is mounting up and [is] even almost worse than white domination.
** [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MalemaOnTouchHD?src=hash #MalemaOnTouchHD] (1 March 2018)

* We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of [[w:Port Elizabeth|PE]]. Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg] [[w:Herman Mashaba|Mashaba]], why not [[w:Solly Msimanga|Solly]] [mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? Because the mayor of [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]] in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man. Not because Mashaba and Solly will not be touched, they will be touched, don't worry. But we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness. Trollip will not be a mayor after the 6th of April, if they give us that date.
** On 4 March 2018, concerning the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]], at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/03/04/malema-wants-mayor-trollip-out-because-hes-white_a_23376838/ Malema Wants Mayor Trollip Out Because He's White], Politics, ''Huffpost'' (4 March 2018)

* It didn’t end there [with genocide]. They passed law after law‚ taking land from our people. Yet investors never left the country. When they passed the Land Act of 1913‚ investors never left the country. Investors came into the country.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Nico Gous in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-04-land-in-sa-was-taken-through-genocide-and-will-be-returned-malema/ Land in SA was taken through ‘genocide’ and will be returned: Malema], ''Sunday Times'' (4 March 2018)

* All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

*  ...any farm, on which a bond is registered after December 2017, will not be paid by our government. The bond system is anyway a criminal syndicate, ...  We have no respect for banks, because they are run by criminals. 
** On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. ... We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.
** On 8 March 2018, concerning the Ingonyama Trust which administers 2.8-million hectares of land on behalf of the king, who is its sole trustee,[https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-01-kzn-premier-backs-zulu-king-on-land-debate/] as quoted by Eric Naki in [https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1850043/juju-lays-into-zulu-king-zwelithini/ Juju lays into Zulu King Zwelithini], ''The Citizen'' (8 March 2018). See also: [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-09-malema-takes-aim-at-zulu-king/ Malema takes aim at Zulu king over land: 'There are no holy cows'], ''TimesLive'' (9 March 2018)

* A racist country like Australia says: ‘The white farmers are being killed in South Africa.’ We are not killing them. ... If they want to go, they must go. They must leave the keys to their tractors because we want to work the land, they must leave the keys to their houses because we want to stay in those houses. They must leave everything they did not come here with in South Africa and go to Australia. ... White farmers are the architect of their own misfortune. ... Don’t make noise, because you will irritate us. Go to Australia. It is only racists who went to Australia when Mandela got out of prison. It is only racists who went to Australia when 1994 came. It is the racists again who are going back to Australia. ... They are rich here because they are exploiting black people. There is no black person to be exploited in Australia, they are going to be poor. ... They will come back here with their tail between their legs. We will hire them because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa. As to what we are going to do with the land, it’s our business, it’s none of your business.
** On 21 March 2018 at a Human Rights Day rally in Mpumalanga Stadium, [http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-african-politician-says-australia-is-a-racist-country-farmers-should-leave-the-keys-when-they-go/news-story/e98607c4fa66d30d9b2731aa30e2a956 South African politician says Australia is a ‘racist country’, farmers should ‘leave the keys’ when they go], Frank Chung, ''news.com.au'' (22 March 2018)

* Our people are still staying in the same houses that were given to them by [[apartheid]]. Our people still stay in the shacks. They came and abandoned you here. They have forgotten about you. They are going to come back next year during elections and say ‘no, you must remember [[Nelson Mandela]], this is the party of Mandela, and we have come a long way with the [[African National Congress|ANC]]’. Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party.
** As quoted by Siviwe Feketha in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mandela-is-no-more-he-is-dead-with-his-party-says-malema-16241907 Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema Mandela is no more. He is dead, with his party, says Malema], ''www.iol.co.za'' (26 July 2018)

* We’re a very angry society, bad things have happened to us and many people don’t take that into consideration, especially the people who think that they’ve arrived. They forget the pain we have gone through as black people. That anger shows itself from time to time. In the EFF, we try and control it.
** On 18 April 2019, explaining Floyd Shivambu's altercation with journalist Adrian de Kock in the parliamentary precinct, Eusebius McKaizer Show, Radio 702, as quoted by Theto Mahlakoana in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/bad-things-have-happened-to-us-malema-blames-violence-on-past-pain/ar-BBW4ns1?ocid=spartanntp ‘Bad things have happened to us’ - Malema blames violence on past pain], ''Eyewitness News'' (19 April 2019)

* We have instructed our attorneys to appeal [the judgment]. Not even the courts should be allowed to silence the truth, also if that truth is against the ''Thuma Mina'' group of the ruling elite.
** On 20 May 2019, after the EFF lost a defamation case to [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]], as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-30-trevor-manuel-1-eff-0-in-defamation-case/ Trevor Manuel 1, EFF 0 in defamation case], ''Daily Maverick'' (30 May 2019). ''Thuma Mina'' refers to a slogan of president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]].

* We might be imprisoned, we might go to jail, we might be subjected to fines. Every time such rulings are made against us, you must know that it is not a ruling against the leadership, it's a ruling against the struggle for the land. … You must know that when you are EFF, you are the enemy of the Rothschilds, you are the enemy of the Ruperts, you are the enemy of the establishment. The establishment is white monopoly capital, it's the army, it's the police, it's the courts, every institution that existed 300 years ago, that's what an establishment means. … Not so long ago, they gave a judgment and said, 'according to the new dawn'. How can a judge use a political speech in passing a judgment? You use the same language of politicians as a judge and want to be respected. … We cannot have judges that seek to impress politicians. Did you ever ask yourself a question: 'What would happen to this country if the judiciary is captured?' Then we are gone. It is the end of this country. … The judiciary is about to be captured, I'm warning you now and you'll know, in the past five years, I've never misled you. … There was a judge called Judge Nugent who had a meeting with [[w:Pravin Gordhan|Pravin Gordhan]] before Gordhan appeared in that Nugent Commission. The judge did not disclose that he met a politician before that politician came into the commission. … Why are the judges meeting politicians? … South Africa be warned, … something wrong is happening to the judiciary.
** Addressing supporters outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on 21 June 2019, as quoted in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-judiciary-is-about-to-be-captured--malema The judiciary is about to be captured – Julius Malema], ''News24'' & ''Politics Web'' (21 June 2019)

* Trevor Manuel has always served the white capital, now he is accused of triple conflict of interest, exactly what we raised earlier. Trevor can kick and scream and win the court cases, but facts don’t change. … Why did you interview other candidates if you knew [your relationship with Edward Kieswetter]? What if you were too hard on the other candidates? … The reason why they want SARS so desperately is because it is the only weapon they can use against their enemies. SARS is being used as a weapon to fight opponents of white monopoly capital. … They can come for us at any time.
** Malema on [[w:Trevor Manuel|Trevor Manuel]] not recusing himself from the election of SARS commissioner, at a press conference in Braamfontein on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Mihlali Ntsabo in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/trevor-manuel-has-always-served-white-capital-malema/ar-AADJU8g?ocid=spartanntp Trevor Manuel has always served white capital - Malema], ''Eyewitness News'' (3 July 2019)

* They [the DA] refused with their votes [in DA-led coalitions]. They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We […] took a decision that we are no longer working with the DA in all municipalities of South Africa where the DA requires the votes of the EFF. We’ll also not vote with the ANC.
** Malema announcing the EFF's withdrawal from coalitions at a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Greg Nicolson in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/indepth/its-done-its-finished-–-malema-on-voting-pact-with-da/ar-AADK2lb?ocid=spartanntp ‘It’s done, it’s finished’ – Malema on voting pact with DA], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* When the whites are beating you up at the farms and you are being undermined by whites in the newsroom, you come here. But when it comes time for voting, you are not there. … South Africa chose the government they want.
** At a press conference on 2 July 2019, as quoted by Rebecca Davis in [https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/national/effs-no-council-vote-decision-could-come-back-to-bite-it-in-2021/ar-AADKV5X?ocid=spartanntp EFF’s ‘no council vote’ decision could come back to bite it in 2021], ''Daily Maverick'' (3 July 2019)

* [Mnangagwa is either ignorant or had bowed to pressure from the white supremacist world.] We are of the firm view that [[w:Emmerson Mnangagwa|Mnangagwa]] is either deeply misinformed about the real causes of the crisis in Zimbabwe, or is simply capitulating to pressure. Either way, this treasonous act of paying white settlers money that Zimbabwe does not have will not resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is essentially a political crisis resulting from years of mismanagement, at the centre of which Mnangagwa features prominently.
** Commenting on Zimbabwe's Global Compensation Deed of 2020, which envisages payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* '''Xoli Mngambi:''' That is the former president [[w:Kgalema Motlanthe|Kgalema Motlanthe]] who says that if there is any more friction in that town of [[w:Senekal|Senekal]] it could spark civil war. Are you going to listen to him? '''Malema:''' So be it. We are in this mess because of people like him, who allowed whites to undermine us like that. You think we can listen to people like him? You think we can listen to Mbeki? To Zuma? To Mandela? We'll never allow that. This nonsense must come to an end at some point. This whites should know that we are not step-children in this country. This is our country, we too belong here. And if going to Senegal will cause a civil war – if a man exercises his constitutional rights, that will lead to a civil war – so be it. I am not talking here from the comfort of my couch in the ''NewzRoom Afrika'' offices. I'll be in Senegal myself. I'll be leading from the front. Do what you want to do. What soldiers ... why should we be scared of retired soldiers, when we are not scared of them when they were soldiers? When they legitimately carried guns to kill black people, we confronted them with stones. Let history repeat itself. Let us confront the same people our parents confronted. If that is going to be the case, let it be. We are not going to live in fear here because we think white farmers are former generals. They can go to hell. Murderous generals. '''Xoli Mngambi:''' Mr. Malema, I put it to you that as a responsible leader, you are the third biggest party in this country. Your utterances right now, you sound like a person who is spoiling for war, not the protection of democracy, that you claim to go and do there. Is that what you essentially want? '''Malema:''' What is war? When a person says I am going to Senegal to defend a building with my body? I have never told you of AK 47. I have never told you of [?]. You are talking war? When I defend myself against white racist and terrorist. If you are scared of them it is none of my business chief. You are all alone, [when you say you are being] scared of white people. I am standing up to them.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020.

* Well, we send messages of support and condolences to all victims of murder in SA, including the farm manager. There is nothing in our law called farm murder. Murder is murder, it is criminality and should be attended to as such. ... A criminal must rot in jail, once found guilty. We have no interest of people who go around killing innocent people, particularly civilians who are trying to make an honest living. So we really are not going to Senekal to sympathise with a thug. We are going there to defend our democracy, our constitution, which is under threat by racist, terrorist farmers.
** In a Newsfeed AM interview with Xoli Mngambi of ''NewzRoom Afrika'' at 10:02 on 15 October 2020, as quoted in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-10-15-effinsenekal-sa-weighs-in-on-malemas-calls-to-gather-in-senekal/ #EFFinSenekal: SA weighs in on Malema's calls to gather in Senekal], Cebelihle Bhengu, ''DispatchLIVE'' (15 October 2020)

* What type of a human being are you white man to stay in a house with an electricity? All you can do is to wire to the [...] workers of the farm a simple electricity so that they can have light at night. Their children too must study. ... We want the children in the farms to own the farms. And they can only own the farms if they are educated. ... So that we can guarantee a better future for our children. What kind of a human being are you white man to deny these children a light to study and make their future bright? .... All we are asking for is the bright future of our children. We don't want our children to travel the same journey their grandfathers travelled.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew EFF leader Julius Malema addresses Mohokare municipality, Free State: 22 Nov 2020] (2:23 – 4:04), ''SABC News'' on ''YouTube'' (22 November 2020)

* If South African police want a fight, they must declare it. We will treat them the same way we treated them in the 80s. We will not only fight them at the picket lines, we will go to their homes and fight them in their own houses, with their own families. [Applause] We are not scared of police. They think this uniform gives them some superior power. We'll see you after you take off the uniform at night at home, when you are about to eat pap. ... Bloody coward. ... We'll come for you one by one at your own comfort zone. We will teach you that no-one can defeat the power of the masses. Not a policeman, not a police state, not a military state, not a dictatorship, once the masses have taken a decision, no-one will defeat them. Racism in South Africa is going to fall – they like it, or they don't like it. It is just a matter of time, we are going to go after racists everywhere, and there will not be a home for racist[s]. They will on their own take a flight or a ship out of South Africa, because they will no longer feel comfortable in South Africa. Let's not make home for racism. Guys, there is no any other way of fighting racism. Racism is violence. It must be responded with violence. That's the only way we are going to stop racist[s] in South Africa.
** Addressing supporters at Mofulatshepe township at [[w:Smithfield, Free State|Smithfield]] in [[w:Mohokare Local Municipality|Mohokare Municipality]], Free State, on 22 November 2020, as quoted (in part) in [https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/advocate-charges-malema-for-anti-police-comments-745ba031-e75e-4d70-8cac-65ce8c69adb2 Advocate charges Malema for anti-police comments], by Janine Moodley, ''IOL'' (3 December 2020). See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaKZL8ETew YouTube], 15:20

* Because you must get Malema and Ndlozi guilty through any means necessary, by hook or crook, it doesn't matter. We don't have a case but let's concoct, because perhaps those pictures that are removed are now proving something else which is not in the best interest of AfriForum and the ANC. And what is interesting is that the ANC through the NPA, they are pursuing the same interest as the AfriForum. And it has been the same for quite some time that the ANC shares similar ideological perspective with AfriForum. It comes as not a shock to us, because they even had a press conference together at some point in Gauteng. So you got the right wing with the so-called former liberation movement working together to eliminate what they perceive as a political threat, not through honest political contestation, but through manipulation of law enforcement and abuse of the courts, because politically you can't defeat your opponent. ... we were clearly provoked ... the onus are on them to prove that we were not supposed to be there. ...
** Commenting on 23 photographs reduced to 11 in his upcoming assault case, as quoted in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-afriforum-plot-eliminate-julius-malema-conspiracy/ ‘ANC, AfriForum working together to eliminate me’ – Malema goes full conspiracy], by Thom Head, ''The South African'' (11 March 2021). See also: [https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/1369665843173466115 Julius S Malema responding to why he thinks evidence is being tampered with.], twitter.com

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' The Pan-African Parliament, there has been a contestation Mr Malema, on the powers and the function of the Pan-African Parliament but also whether it is effective enough to deal with issues of governance on the continent. '''Malema:''' Well, that's what we are calling for as Pan-African Parliament, that we must have legislative powers, that we must have the capacity to play an oversight role on the executives in the continent, hold them accountable, and we can only do that if countries ratify the protocols which will allow this parliament to become a fully legislative continental body which will hold executives accountable. A lot of presidents aren't comfortable with that because they do not accept being held accountable, and those are some of the people who thrive on violation of human rights, dictatorship and stealing the government money and resources of the countries without being held accountable. They do that with impunity because they know that they control and run those countries as if they are personal properties, but with a continental body like PAP being given legislative powers to hold executives accountable, they will no longer be in a position to do all the shenanigans they are able to get away with now.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuqY4UWNlw Opening of PAP ― Julius Malema reflects on the opening of the Pan-African Parliament], ''SABC News'' (24 May 2021)

* '''Sophie Mokoena:''' Mr Malema, some say it was ill-discipline. What was happening? '''Malema:''' Well, a member of parliament from Mali has been misbehaving. He moved from his side to our side, started fighting with a Zimbabwean lady, from there he came to me. Every time people disagree with Mali's position on rotation, he bangs tables and he doesn't stop. So when I asked him to keep quiet so that we can listen, he started being aggressive and threatened to kill me, and I said, "I won't do it here, I won't kill you here inside, I will kill you outside, so, stop threatening to kill me inside parliament." So it was a reaction. If a person says to me he will kill me you can't give him roses. I told him, "I will kill you." '''Mokoena:''' ... is it necessary really? '''Malema:''' I will kill him. He can't threaten me, to kill, I will kill him. I will repeat it anywhere. No-one threatens me. ... My life is more important than any other thing. I will defend myself. I didn't go to where he was sitting. He has been bullying everybody here. He can't bully me. No-one can bully me and threaten to kill me. I said to him, "out of respect for this thing I'll kill you outside, I won't kill you inside parliament." I respect this house. Today he came to me, we smoked a peace pipe and everything is fine now ... The problem here is that the western countries [of Africa] are refusing to accept the principle of rotation. And when they disagree with you, they bully you and do all types of intimidation. ... '''Mokoena:''' What is your message [to the youth] after this video? '''Malema:''' ... The youth of Africa [...] have tolerated nonsense for a very long time, especially from the so-called elders who are ruling them in an autocratic manner, in a manner that if you disagree you get killed, in an undemocratic manner, where women and children are being raped, [...] people who are opposing the ''status quo'', as a way of punishing their opponents. ... That is why in this country we are able to put a stop to a potential nonsensical situation, because of our attitude [that] it doesn't matter how dangerous the situation can be, if it is not in the best interest of our people, we are going to deal with it. '''Mokoena:''' The tension between the Francophones and Anglophones does not project a good image of the continent that is trying to unite. ... Why can Africans not speak in one voice, particularly on issues that are of interest to the continent? '''Malema:''' The Francophones are still admiring their colonizers, they still worship the symbols of France. Actually they see themselves as French, and we have to do away with that. ... They seem to be thinking that because of the numbers of their countries they must have dominance over us, and they must serve in the best interests of what France requires them to do. ... A rotational principle helps to unite a continent, in a sense that every region feels that it is part of this parliament.
** Interviewed at the fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan-African Parliament in [[:w:Midrand|Midrand]], South Africa. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Mx_8V_8w Pan-African Parliament ― Mali MP threatened to kill me, so I reacted that I will kill him: Malema], ''SABC News'' (31 May 2021)

==Quotes about Julius Malema==
* Julius Malema is a devotee of the Goebbels/Stalin/Mao rulebook on propaganda which preaches if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually believe it. Witness the EFF leader’s racist ranting about who should own South Africa’s land [...] stirring murderous thoughts in revolutionary breasts. But Malema’s self-righteous belief that he can force expropriation of legally owned land has been made once too often.
** Alec Hogg, [http://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/11/16/rian-malan-malema-white-land-ownership/ Rian Malan lashes Malema rhetoric: Ugly truth about SA white land ownership] (16 November 2016)

* This fool is misinformed and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big, white capital and business in the province? The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts, why is Malema silent on this? Is the Indian community an easy target in Malema’s political stage performance? Workers are aware of their rights these days and know about labour courts and their right to CCMA if there are issues around labour matters. There are very few who are not familiar with this recourse. Instead of playing on racial tensions, why doesn’t Malema encourage workers to challenge their working conditions through proper structures? I am disappointed in Malema and will not support his political agenda, as he is clearly causing dissension and division in our society. A true leader does the opposite.
**[[w:Schabir Shaik|Schabir Shaik]], as quoted by Zohra Teke in [https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/this-fool-is-misinformed-shaik-lambasts-malema-over-indian-comments-20170731 'This fool is misinformed' - Shaik lambastes Malema over Indian comments], ''News24'' (31 July 2017)

* During the State of the Nation Address debate, EFF leader Julius Malema (a Marxist) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of making empty promises regarding the [principle of land expropriation without compensation] issue. Malema is a dangerous individual who encourages farm terror and murder. [...] For far too long the hard left of the ANC has been taking control, their policies shaped by the EFF because they are losing votes to the EFF's rhetoric of hate, divisive racism and a promise to under-educated South Africans that all will be well if they just take the white people's farms and businesses.
** [[w:Janice Atkinson|Janice Atkinson]] MEP in a letter to [[Boris Johnson]], dated 17th February 2018, quoted by Tom Head in [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/land-expropriation-ukip-intervention/ UKIP MEP calls for Britain to “step in” over land expropriation plans], ''The South African'' (1 March 2018)

* He must do what he must do and we will do what we must do. We are a party of principle, we believe in property rights and there's no way that we can support that, so if they want to blackmail us into doing it, they will have to remove us.
** [[w:Athol Trollip|Athol Trollip]] quoted by Bonolo Selebano in [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805 DA is a typical bully – Malema], ''The New Age (Free State)'' (5 March 2018)

* The EFF’s remarks are blatantly racist and offensive.
** [[w:Ernst Roets|Ernst Roets]], Deputy CEO of AfriForum, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* It’s time we condemned black people’s racism. Malema prejudicing Trollip on skin colour is nothing but racism. He can make whatever political decision but race is no justification for differentiation in this context.
** Tyrone Maseko (a black advocate) in a tweet, as quoted in [https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/ Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks?], ''SAPeople News'' (5 March 2018)

* When an individual or a political party tables a motion in a meeting or the National Assembly and the motion wins the day by an overwhelming majority, what is the reason for attacking those who voted against it? Is this not intolerance? It is clear that if the EFF won elections, those who voted against it will be in serious trouble.
** Dr Kenosi Mosalakae, [https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sowetan/20180308/281728385027358/textview EFF driven by intolerance and vindictiveness], e-mail to the ''Sowetan'' (8 March 2018)

* My blackness gets questioned by other blacks when I disagree with Julius Malema. I didn't know that my identity as a black man depended on whether I agree with a man who is a communist, gave us Zuma, bankrupted Limpopo and uses race politics to poison the minds of our youth.
** Siphamandla (Siph) Ndlovu in a [https://twitter.com/SiphNdlovu/status/972138004297977856 tweet] (9 March 2018)

* I'm going to say something that I know I will be attacked [for]. We mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon. … We were quick to expel people that we should have spoken to them. … If you check the knock-on effect of the members that left us to join the EFF, that's exactly what we have lost in terms of voter participation. People didn't leave the ANC for the opposition, they left for a far left movement or a movement that felt the ANC was not strong enough. … Our incapability to manage internal differences, unfortunately, affected us. For me how we mismanaged those internal differences remains the key part that led us to lose power in those two metros.
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], Gauteng MEC for education, speaking to Eusebius McKaiser of 702, [http://www.702.co.za/articles/309073/panyaza-lesufi-anc-has-mismanaged-the-julius-malema-phenomenon Panyaza Lesufi: ANC has mismanaged the Julius Malema phenomenon] (25 June 2018)

* Mazzotti and Phillips are no choir boys and you [i.e. Malema] must be aware of it.
** [[w:Jacques Pauw|Jacques Pauw]] on his facebook page, as quoted in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/07/06/jacques-pauw-to-julius-malema-no-i-wont-apologise-to-you-this-is-why_a_23476008/ Jacques Pauw To Julius Malema: 'No, I Won't Apologise To You – This is Why'], ''huffingtonpost.co.za'' (6 July 2018)

* On this occasion, we cannot remain silent in the face of the EFF’s [i.e. Malema's] pretentiousness to know more about the history and politics of Zimbabwe than the Zimbabweans themselves. Even more, the EFF has the audacity to dare teach Zimbabweans, even our head of state about the land question in our country.
** David Hamadziripi, head of Zimbabwe's embassy in Pretoria, after Malema criticized payouts to Zimbabwe's dispossessed farmers in terms of the Global Compensation Deed of 2020, as quoted in [https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zimbabwe-embassy-tackles-julius-malema-on-land-and-compensation-of-white-farmers-f6667ca5-7898-40fb-8a7c-17683741a572 Zimbabwe embassy tackles Julius Malema on land and compensation of white farmers], Jonisayi Maromo, ''IOL'' (3 August 2020)

* I make a challenge to him today, if you believe what you say around the police not doing their job and being at war with you, I challenge you, Mr Malema, to give up your security detail that is provided to you by the state – you are the only opposition leader who has a SAPS security detail – I challenge you today, to give up your security detail. ... If you are calling on the public to attack police officers, then I think that is a disgrace that you yourself would be sitting with police protection, and expect people to attack the very people that you are relying on to be safe. And I think it is hypocrisy of the highest order.
** [[w:John Steenhuisen|John Steenhuisen]] during a webcast of the [[w:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]], hosted by new DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube, as quoted in [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/steenhuisen-to-malema-give-up-your-police-security-detail-20201127 Steenhuisen to Malema: Give up your police security detail], Jan Gerber, ''News24'' (27 November 2020)

* ... these rich white families in South Africa, they are the face of the land criminal. That was committed in this country. That's why we are here to say to Rupert: Your riches come out of stealing from black people. Your riches come from the exploitation of black people. Our people work in the wine farms and you don't pay them anything. Instead you pay them with bottles of wine and alcohol because you have no regard for black people and black dignity. So you are not rich because you are smarter than us, you are rich because your forefathers committed a black genocide and stole our cattle and killed our leaders and took everything that belongs to us. The unbanning of the ANC, when they came back from exile, they came here in Stellenbosch to hold the first national executive committee meeting in a farm owned by the Ruperts. That day they came, Mandela out of prison, exiles returned, but guys we need to have our first meeting. It was held in a Ruperts' farm. And then how can you say the ANC will not sell out when their first historic meeting was held in the Ruperts' farm. The person who lead such facilitation and processes is one of our own, our own black brother Trevor Manuel. He's the one who has been working with them even before the liberation. He is one of them. That is why Trevor and them are rich like that and you can't touch them.
** On 6 April 2022 during a rally in Stellenbosch, [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691680032032178 EFF-leier ... sê skatryk families soos die Ruperts en Oppenheimers het grond van swart mense gesteel ná volksmoorde], Son Koerant, 6 April 2022

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Afrikaans

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JMK:

[[File:AfrikaanseTaalmonumentSlogan.jpg|thumb|right|Emblazoned on the entranceway to the [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|Afrikaans Language Monument]]:<center>''Dit is ons erns''</center>"It is our solemnity" is a paraphrasing of [[w:Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan)|Onze Jan]]'s question of 1905: "Is it our solemnity?" (''Is 't ons ernst?'')]]
'''[[w:Afrikaans|Afrikaans]]''' is a language similar to [[w:Dutch language|Dutch]] spoken mostly in southern [[Africa]].

== Quotes ==
===17th century===
* A custom exists among our entire nation, where the inland peoples acquire the Dutch language, that they pronounce it in a very crooked and incomprehensible way, and cause us to imitate them therein, so that our Dutch children also acquire this practice, and the basis is laid for a broken language which eventually will be impossible to exterminate. Even less shall we be able to introduce the Dutch language among the Hottentot peoples, while they lack no competence in pronouncing the words correctly, without error, if you endeavor to dictate carefully to them, to which we should invest somewhat greater care.
** [[w:Hendrik van Rheede|Hendrik van Rheede]] anticipates a [[w:patois|patois]] in his 1685 diary, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 148, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

===18th century===
* The language of the rural people is as little pure Dutch as the language of German farmers is pure German. The men have a fulsome speech and the women folk have assumed ways of speaking which at times are truly ridiculous.
* Translated from German: ''Die Sprache der Landleute ist so wenig reine Holländische Mundart als die teutschen Bauern reines Teutsch sprechen. Die Mannspersonen nehmen das Maul dabei sehr voll, und das Frauenvolk hat Redensarten angenommen, die zuweilen recht lächerlich sind. Zum Exempel. Man frägt etwan, ob sie keine Bibel haben, so erfolgt die Antwort: "Onz heeft" geen Bijbel ... Wenn man sie aber aldann frägt: Wie viel Unzen gehen auf ein Pfund? so werden die schamroth.''
** Otto Friedrich Mentzel in Vollständige geographische und topographische Beschreibung des afrikanischen Vorgebirges der Guten Hoffnung, Volume II, Chapter 7, Glogau (1785–1787), as quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, pp. 149–150, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}. Mentzel proceeds by quoting an example of their affected grammar which suggests future Afrikaans.

===19th century===
* He had lost his mother tongue almost completely and acquired the mutilated Dutch of the colonists.
** [[w:Martin Lichtenstein|Martin Lichtenstein]] in Reisen im südlichen Afrika II (1803–1806), p. 151, in reference to German botanist J. A. Auge who settled in the Cape and assumed the vernacular.

* [I am acquainted with] that kind of bastard Dutch which was spoken in this country by the farmers and slaves, as well as among the Hottentots and various other heathen races, and which is not entirely absent from the speech of even the most cultured among Christians and the upper classes of people.
** J. G. Swaving referring to the Cape-Dutch he encountered as an interpreter at the Cape Supreme Court in 1828, as quoted in [https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02590190_585 The Coloured Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town] by Achmat Davids, p. 39.

* The main purpose of the following collection, as one can immediately infer from the title of our work, was to eradicate from the Dutch spoken in this Colony, if it can be referred to by that name, words and expressions which are either entirely strange or mutilated, or at least to indicate in which way this may be done.
* Translated from Dutch: ''Het hoofddoel van de volgende verzameling, gelijk men al dadelijk uit den titel van ons werk kan afleiden, was om het Nederduitsch, voor zoo ver de taal, die in deze Kolonie gesproken wordt, dien naam dragen mag, van deels geheel vreemde, deels verminkte woorden en spreekwijzen te zuiveren, of althans den weg daartoe aan te wijzen.''

** [[w:Antoine Changuion|Antoine N. E. Changuion]] in Proeve van Kaapsch Taaleigen, included as a supplement to the second edition (1848) of his Nederduitsche taal in Zuid-Afrika hersteld [i.e. "Dutch language restored in South Africa"], Rotterdam: J. van der Vliet (1844).

* You can trust me that the ''plat Hollands'' is read more among us farmers than that which Changuion wants to teach us in his booklets.
* Translated from [[w:Cape Dutch|Cape Dutch]]: ''Jij kan ver mij gloo dat die plat Hollans meer gelees wor onder ons boere as die wat Sankion ver ons wil leer in zijn boekies.''
** A resident of [[w:Montagu, Western Cape|Montagu]] writing in reply to Changuion, as quoted by [[w:Johannes du Plessis Scholtz|Scholtz, J. du P.]] (1965). Die Afrikaner en sy taal 1806-1875: p. 180. Cape Town: Nasou.

* The language of the Cape! … As if the miserable, bastard jargon, which is the vernacular of this country, is worthy of the name of language at all. … The poverty of expression in this jargon is such, that we defy any man to express thought in it above the merest common-place … There can be no literature with such a language, for poor as it is, it is hardly a written one … Let, then, your language and your nationality go, and believe us, you need not fear for your religion.
** Editorial in [[w:Cape Argus|The Cape Argus]], 19 September 1857, a call for the extermination of the "atrocious vernacular of the Cape", the supposed nationality associated with it, and its replacement by English, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 212, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

* You neither speak Dutch, that is the pure old Holland vernacular, much less would you soil your lips with the [[w:patois|patois]] of the Hottentots about us. This I am sure is no offence, if I say you express your thoughts in a way which is not recognised in your pulpits, is not read in your books of law, does not figure in your scientific folios, and far less is it recognised as a language of an enlightened people, for it does not provide a descent vocabulary for the lowest of the low, nor for the highest of the lofty … It is one which is doing you and your children incalculable harm. It cramps your thoughts. It impedes your energies. It brings the blush to every modest women's cheeks, and makes the educated recoil with disgust too often. It corrupts the morals of your children, and befouls their innocent expressions ...
**The Cape Monitor, 14 October 1857, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 212, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

* People tell you that Afrikaans isn't a language, because it is composed of Dutch, French, Hottentot, etc. However, the manner in which the English language is patched together is wisely hidden.
** Rev. [[w:Stephanus Jacobus du Toit|S. J. du Toit]], ''[[w:De Zuid-Afrikaan|De Zuid-Afrikaan]]'', 11 July 1874.

* True Afrikaners, we call on you to acknowledge with us that the Afrikaans language is the mother tongue that our Dear Lord gave us; and to make a stand with us through thick and thin for our language; and not to rest before our language is generally acknowledged as the national language of our country.
** Exhortation in ''[[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|Die Afrikaanse Patriot]]'', 15 January 1876.

* An attempt is being made by a number of jokers near Cape Town to reduce the "plat Hollands" of the street and the kitchen to a written language and perpetuate it. They are carrying their joke well. They have a newspaper, have published a history of the colony, an almanack, and to crown the joke — a grammar. ... The promoters of the ''Patriot'' (accent the last syllable) movement are laughed at and ridiculed but they stick to their joke.
**The English press of Cape Town derides the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]], 1876, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 49, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.
[[File:John_Henry_De_Villiers_-_Baron_and_Attorney_General_-_Cape_Colony.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Poor in the number of its words, weak in its inflections, wanting in accuracy of meaning – [[w:John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers|Lord J. H. de Villiers]]]]

* Poor in the number of its words, weak in its inflections, wanting in accuracy of meaning and incapable in expressing ideas connected with the higher spheres of thought, it will have to undergo great modification before it will be able to produce a literature worthy of the name.
** [[w:John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers|Lord J. H. de Villiers]] in 1876, quoted in ''The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: "The First Congress" Phenomenon'', Joshua A. Fishman (ed.), p. 12

* [They] who … see no possibility of maintaining, or, rather, of restoring among the mass of the old Colonists the language of Holland, would keep out English by trying to make the lingo and slang of the lowest Hottentots the language of these people – even South Africa.
** [[w:Cape Argus|The Cape Argus]], 19 September 1877, commenting on the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]] and their followers, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 56, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* The protection of our mother tongue must be the most important consideration of such a Bond, for language and nation are one, and those who do not see this as objective, had better not become members of our bond
**Translated from Afrikaans: ''Die beskerming van ons Landstaal moet hoofsaak wees van so 'n Bond, want taal en nasie es een, en di wat dit ni tot doelwit stel ni, moet liewers ni lid worde van ons bond ni''
** Rev. [[w:Stephanus Jacobus du Toit|S. J. du Toit]] of the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]] on the [[w:Afrikaner Bond|Afrikaner Bond]] party, c. 1881, which would include [[w:Cecil John Rhodes|C. J. Rhodes]] as member, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, pp. 55–56, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* [Although] phonetically Teutonic, it is psychologically essentially a Hottentot idiom. ... It can hardly be expected that the descendants of the Malayo-Polynesian slaves and Hottentot servants, who originally spoke an agglutinative tongue, will have any improving influence on an inflecting language.
** Dr. Theophilus Hahn in a lecture at the [[w:National Library of South Africa|South African Public Library]] on 29 April 1882, as quoted in [https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02590190_585 The Coloured Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town] by Achmat Davids, p. 37

* For intellectual training Africander Dutch offers no scope, for it has no literature and a very poor vocabulary. For internal intercourse and as a trade-medium English is superior to it; and for foreign trade it stands nowhere.
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] as a [[w:Stellenbosch University|Victoria College]] student in 1893, quoted in [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/kann003gesk01_01/kann003gesk01_01_0016.php J. C. Kannemeyer], Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur 1., p. 173, ''Academica'', Pretoria / Cape Town, 1984.

===20th century===
* Afrikaans ... elegant; so simple, serious, and earnest.
** Translated from Dutch: ''Afrikaansch ... mooi; zoo eenvoudig, ernstig, en oprecht gemeend''
** [[:af:Hjalmar Reitz|Hjalmar Reitz]] in 1903, as quoted in Boer en Brit: Afrikaanse en Nederlandse tekste uit en om die Anglo-Boereoorlog, p. 285, by Ena Jansen & Wilfred Jonckheere, 1999.

* The general does not use pure Afrikaans in his speeches, nor a Dutch that can easily be confused with the language of a Dutchman, but a kind of Afrikaans with Dutch inflections that he inserts haphazardly without any particular plan, so that every now and then, by pure chance, he gets one of them in the right place.
** Translated from Afrikaans: ''Die generaal gebruik nie suiwer Afrikaans in sijn toesprake nie en ook nie 'n Hollands wat met die taal van 'n Hollander maklik kan verwar word nie, maar 'n soort Afrikaans met hollandse verbuiginge wat hij sonder 'n bepaalde plan holderste bolder inlas sodat daar nou en dan bij toeval een op die regte plek kom.''
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] commenting on the language spoken by general [[w:Louis Botha|Louis Botha]], quoted in Kannemeyer, J. C., 1995. "Langenhoven. 'n Lewe.", ''Tafelberg'', p. 302

* For how long shall we entertain two thoughts? If Dutch is our language, why do we not speak it? If Afrikaans is our language, why do we not write it?
**Translated from Afrikaans: ''Hoe lank sal ons hink op twee gedagtes? As Nederlands ons taal is, waarom praat ons hom nie? As Afrikaans ons taal is, waarom skryf ons hom nie?''
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] in 1911, quoted by J. C. Kannemeyer, p. 241, 1995.

* The Provincial Council accepted my motion that enables Afrikaans as a permissible medium up to the fourth standard.
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] in a telegram to his wife on 23 April 1914, quoted in J. C. Kannemeyer, 1995, pp. 296–7. It implied that Afrikaans received official status in the Cape as medium of instruction in the first six school years, and would effectively replace Dutch in this respect. The Christian community at [[w:Genadendal |Genadendal]] and the Muslim community of the Dorp street [[w:Madrasa|madrasa]], Cape Town, had however used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction many years earlier.

* Be loyal unto death to your traditions, to your religion, to your language and to your people.
* Translated from Afrikaans/Dutch: ''Wees getrou tot den dood aan uwe tradities, aan uw Godsdie[nst,] aan uw taal, aan uw volk.''
** Final admonition by [[Jopie Fourie]] before his execution on 20 December 1914, as quoted by Luan Schalkwyk in [https://www.kraaluitgewers.co.za/jopie-fourie-rebelle-held-se-afskeidsbrief-ure-voor-sy-dood/ Jopie Fourie: Rebelle-held se afskeidsbrief ure voor sy dood], ''Kraal Uitgewers'', 21 June 2017.

* If Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom went to ruin it would be an irrevocable catastrophe for South Africa. And it must not happen under any circumstances, for who has up to now preserved Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom? Not these people who hold symposia and talk big. The National Party brought Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom into being. ... Afrikaans is spoken in circles in which it was never spoken before. Today there is respect for Afrikaans from people who never had respect for it before. We should not complain that Afrikaans is going to ruin [due to language policy]. We should take pride and rejoice that Afrikaans is progressing with rapid strides in South Africa!
** [[John Vorster]] in his [http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/extract-speech-made-heilbron-16-august-1968 Heilbron speech] on 16 August 1968, as quoted in ''sahistory.org.za''.

* ...a bridge between the great, luminous West and magical Africa … Our task lies in the current and future implementation of this gleaming vehicle ...
** [[w:N. P. van Wyk Louw|N. P. van Wyk Louw]], quoted on a plaque at the [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|Afrikaans Language Monument]]
[[File:MakgobaHillLecture.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Afrikaans is a cancer that must be destroyed – [[w:Malegapuru William Makgoba|M. W. Makgoba]]]]
* Were it not that Afrikaans literature glorifies white supremacy, and were it not for the unutterable evil this literature breathes, one would simply dismiss it as inane, a crushing bore.
**[[w:Es'kia Mphahlele|Es'kia Mphahlele]], 1974, The Function of Literature at the Present Time: The Ethnic Imperative.
::– Literature in the ethos of Boerneef, 1938, ''Boplaas'', is taken to be intended here, which would treat its coloured figures as "obedient serfs" in a "feudal order", while former critics merely observed a "natural hierarchy" or "idyll".
::''cf''. [[w:Jakes Gerwel|Jakes Gerwel]], 1983, Literatuur en Apartheid. Gerwel points out similar sentiments expressed in Mphahlele, 1962, ''The African Image'', p. 107.
::''cf''. Godfrey Meintjes, 1995, Re-viewing the Past: Notes on the Rereading of Canonized Literary Texts, Rhodes University
::''cf''. Ampie Coetzee, Afrikaans Literature in the Service of Ethnic Politics?, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 103, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* Will Afrikaans survive the Afrikaner empire?
**[[w:Jakes Gerwel|Jakes Gerwel]] in 1975, quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* The recent strikes by schools against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction is a sign of demonstration against schools' systematised to producing 'good industrial boys' for the powers that be... We therefore resolve to totally reject the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction, to fully support the students who took the stand in the rejection of this dialect [and] also to condemn the racially separated education system.
** Resolution at a conference in Roodepoort of the South African Student Movement (SASM), proposed by V. Ngema and seconded by T. Motapanyane on 28 May 1976, denouncing Afrikaans and promoting boycotting of classes, as quoted in [http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/resolution-against-use-afrikaans-taken-during-sasm-conference-roodepoort A resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort], ''sahistory.org.za''

* The government is prepared to be as accommodating as possible as far as the use of Afrikaans at African schools is concerned. ... In the white areas of South Africa [however, including Soweto], where the government erects the buildings, grants the subsidies and pays the teachers, it is our right to decide on language policy. The same applies to schools in areas where there is no compulsory education. Why are pupils sent to schools if [the government's] language policy does not suit them?
** [[w:Andries Treurnicht|Andries Treurnicht]] on 17 June 1976 in Windhoek, in the aftermath of the [[w:Soweto uprising|Soweto riots]], as quoted in [http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/down-afrikaans-oakes-d-ed1988-illustrated-history-south-africa-%26ndash%3B-real-story-reader%E2%80%99s-digest- Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed.), 1988. Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest: Cape Town], ''sahistory.org.za''

* Unfortunately Afrikaans acquired certain historic connotations that resulted in its rejection by the black man, and these are political connotations.
**[[w:Steve Biko|Steve Biko]] (1946–1977) quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* And Afrikaans, this child from the soil of Africa, has already become an instrument for millions of people – yes, for more than just the Afrikaner … God's plan, however, had been the creation of another civilization with a new language from Africa … Afrikaans and this beautiful southern land are undeniably grown together.
**[[P. W. Botha]], quoted in [[w:The Citizen (South Africa)|The Citizen]], 19 May 1985.

* Afrikaans is a language that grew and developed from the soil of South Africa, aided by a variety of languages and cultures in our land, rooted in the search for an own identity and freedom. Its power and hope for the future has never been based on special privilege; but rather as one of the languages of South Africa which will have to meet the future shoulder to shoulder, with mutual respect and equal rights.
** [[Nelson Mandela]], in an [http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/1995/950817_atkv.htm address] to the [[w:ATKV|ATKV]], delivered in Afrikaans on 17 August 1995.

===21st century===
* At present local English does not seem to have any particular social value, and thus there is no apparent reason for its speakers to wish to preserve its distinctive features. This is not true of non-standard Afrikaans, which is valued as warm, intimate, and a sign of membership of the community.
** Kay McCormick in "Language in South Africa", p. 224, Rajend Mesthrie (ed.), 17 October 2002.

* Seen socio-linguistically, a language can never fully clothe the intellectual and affective life of its speakers unless granted entree to all functions. Of particular importance is that a language must enjoy access to the academic-scientific fields of language such as in politics, law, the media, and the university. Throughout the twentieth century, for just the reason of realising this ideal, immense expertise and energy went into developing Afrikaans. One thinks ... of the numerous scholars who could have made their mark internationally but chose instead to devote themselves to Afrikaans.
** H. P. van Coller in "The Medium of Teaching at South African Universities: the Position of Afrikaans" (August 2002), as quoted in "Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century", p. 106, ''Rodopi'', 2005.

* ...architect Jan van Wijk’s [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|remarkable 1975 tribute]] to one of the world’s ugliest languages makes, if nothing else, a great picnic spot on the way to the wine lands of Franschhoek and Stellenbosch.
**Bronwyn Davies or editor Richard Cook, in [[w:Wallpaper (magazine)|Wallpaper]], September 2005.

*…as it happens I am Afrikaans. …I actually do not think about it too much, just as I do not think about it too much that I have a liver. The current flutterings about Afrikaans, however, I find disturbing. It is not doing the image of Afrikaners, and hence also of Afrikaans, any good. …to beat one's chest in such a self-justificatory manner [a mere ten years after the end of apartheid] is bad taste morally. […] We are … being called up by certain parties to mobilise for Afrikaans, to fight for the survival of Afrikaans, and for minority rights. The problem is, however, that I do not see myself currently as part of a minority. When, in the 1970s and 1980s, as an Afrikaner, I resisted apartheid – and not in the 1990s when it became fashionable – then I felt myself part of a minority.
**[[Paul Cilliers]] in a letter to ''Die Burger'' (10 October 2005), as cited in ''No Lesser Place: The Taaldebat at Stellenbosch'', p. 133, Chris Brink (2006)

* At school, Afrikaans was a compulsory subject that I disliked intensely; it was a harsh language, like the people who spoke it. [...] In my father’s shop, ... I found ... to my surprise, that I was beginning to enjoy the language. [The] warm straightforwardness and ... earthiness in many of these people ... was richly and idiomatically expressed in their speech. And, although I have never advanced beyond being able to speak a sort of kombuistaal, I delighted in our conversations.
** [[:w:David Goldblatt|David Goldblatt]] in "Some Afrikaners Photographed, 1975 – Some Afrikaners Revisited, 2006", 2006.

* Slaves and Khoikhoi servants had the greatest hand in the development of the restructured Dutch. In the course of the eighteenth century both burghers and their servants, in interaction with each other, took the restructuring further. Dutch was simplified and a considerable amount of Malayo-Portuguese, as spoken the slaves, was injected. By the end of the century Cape Dutch had largely become what is now Afrikaans. In the western Cape, especially in its rural towns and farms, the main variety of Afrikaans took root as the shared cultural creation...
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* The first attempt to formulate a distinctive Afrikaner historiography was made by [Afrikaner] residents of the small town of Paarl [who] founded the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Society of True Afrikaners). They were effectively reacting against cultural domination by the British colonial regime. ... They based their own history on publications by European authors who were critical of British imperialism and on private correspondence and interviews with fellow Afrikaners. Though this was simple, naive history, it was a path-breaking achievement. It was the first book published in Afrikaans – the spoken language of the people – as distinct from Dutch, from which it had grown apart in the South African milieu by simplifying the syntax, changing the vowel sounds, losing vocabulary items that were not relevant, and incorporating loan words from the other languages that were spoken at the Cape in the eighteenth century – Malay, Portuguese creole, and Khoikhoi.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* The seeds planted by the Paarl thought leadership did not bear much fruit so long as Afrikaners were divided between colonial and republican regimes. ... In spite of many setbacks, Afrikaner leadership gradually attained their nationalist goals... They also re-segregated the white group into Afrikaans-speaking versus the rest. Afrikaans became the premier official language while English was given second-class treatment. The leadership vowed that there was to be no mixing of language, no mixing of cultures, no mixing of religions and no mixing of races.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* At the heart of Afrikaner nationalist struggle was the attempt to imagine a new national community with its language enjoying parity of esteem with English in the public sphere. ... This meant that Afrikaans had to be heard in parliament, the civil service, schools, colleges and universities, and in the world of business and finance; it had to be the medium of newspapers, novels, and poems, giving expression to what was truly South African. Instead of English-speakers portraying Afrikaners in reports, novels or histories as everything they were not: unrefined, semi-literate, racist, dogmatic, and unprogressive, Afrikaners had to define and represent themselves as the true South Africans.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* A good local example of [the process of promoting a language] is Afrikaans: a 150 years ago, Afrikaans was generally regarded as “a mere vernacular” (in the negative sense of the word), used only in the lowest social functions, was without a writing system and had no literature. Gradually, however, it became used as an instrument in the struggle against the imperialism of the British colonial government and against the Dutch-oriented elite’s preference for Dutch (and English) in high-function contexts[.] A number of teachers and church ministers then initiated a movement directed at the development (corpus planning) and promotion (status and prestige planning) of Afrikaans. Gradually, a feeling of pride in and loyalty to Afrikaans developed, and within about 60 years Afrikaans was recognised as a language of the public domain[,] a fully-fledged standard language.
** Michel Lafon and Vic Webb in [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00449090/document The Standardisation of African Languages ― Language political realities], p. 17, ''IFAS'', 2008.

* Few languages have engendered as much controversy, with regard to both historical development and place in modern society.
** Anthony F. Buccini and co-authors in [https://www.britannica.com/topic/West-Germanic-languages#ref603807 West Germanic languages: Afrikaans], ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', 2010.

* Afrikaans will survive and develop further in a range of dialects. That is important to me, that type of freedom. The Afrikaners don’t mean much to me.
** [[w:Koos Kombuis|Koos Kombuis]], as quoted in [https://mg.co.za/article/2013-04-12-00-oh-broeder-where-is-the-volk-now/ Oh broeder, where is the volk now?], Staff Reporter, ''Mail & Guardian'', 12 April 2013.

* This is why Afrikaans-exclusive or even Afrikaans-dominant white schools and universities represent a serious threat to race relations in South Africa. You simply cannot prepare young people for dealing with the scars of our violent past without creating optimal opportunities in the educational environment for living and learning together.
** Jonathan Jansen, [[w:Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[w:University of the Free State|University of the Free State]] in the [http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lees-dit-self-Hier-is-wat-prof-Jonathan-Jansen-se-oor-Afrikaans-op-skool-20131003 The Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture] on 18 September 2013, as quoted in [[w:Rapport (newspaper)|Rapport]]. Also see [https://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-04-wrest-power-from-english-tyranny Jansen: Wrest power from English tyranny], ''Mail & Guardian'', 4 October 2013.

* Afrikaans is a cancer that must be destroyed.
** Prof. [[w:Malegapuru William Makgoba|M. W. Makgoba]], [[w:Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[w:University of KwaZulu-Natal|University of KwaZulu-Natal]], in support of suggestions that Afrikaans courses be discontinued at this university, quoted in [[w:Beeld|Beeld]], 24 October 2013.

* By the 1990s Afrikaans was no longer the instrument of a chauvinistic Afrikaner nationalism. Afrikaner historians had begun to stress the multifaceted nature of our history, Afrikaans as a medium of instruction was no longer imposed on black schools and the language had been scaled back drastically on state radio and television. But [it could be celebrated that] Afrikaans, along with only three others (Hebrew, Indonesian and Hindi) were the only languages that in the course of the twentieth century made the transition from a low status, spoken language to a language used in all walks of public life, including literature, science and technology.
** [[w:Hermann Giliomee|Hermann Giliomee]] in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-war-against-afrikaans-at-stellenbosch The war against Afrikaans at Stellenbosch], ''politicsweb'', 28 April 2016.

* The past 15 years have been characterised by an increasing migration of Afrikaans speakers into the digital space – a space that offers exciting new opportunities for Afrikaans.
** Laurette Pretorius in [http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0041-47512016000400007 The role of the Afrikaans Wikipedia in the growth of Afrikaans], Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, vol. 56, no. 2-1, pp. 371-390, 2016.

* ... socio-political history often casts Afrikaans as the language of racists, oppressors and unreconstructed nationalists. But [Afrikaans] also bears the imprint of a fierce tradition of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, of an all-embracing humanism and anti-apartheid activism.
** [[w:Hein Willemse|Hein Willemse]] of the [[w:University of Pretoria|University of Pretoria]], [http://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2465048-more-than-an-oppressors-language-reclaiming-the-hidden-history-of-afrikaans More than an oppressor's language: reclaiming the hidden history of Afrikaans], 12 May 2017.

* The world [of 2017] looks completely different than in 1937. Then, communication was limited, and the introduction of radio – in Afrikaans – changed the world.
** SABC in [http://www.sabc2.co.za/sabc/home/sabc2/news/details?id=31216093-fdf3-4893-a9d9-73472a0e4d75 RSG celebrates 80 years of Afrikaans radio], 26 October 2017.

* ''[[w:Die Kandidaat|Die Kandidaat]]'', ''[[w:Katrina (film)|Katrina]]'' and ''[[w:Jannie totsiens|Jannie Totsiens]]'' constitute the golden era of Afrikaans film, as they delivered products of quality and intent which have probably not been met since. … these dynamic films sought to open up the eyes of the viewers to the brutally harmful and hurtful results of institutionalised apartheid on the other segments of the society, especially so to the so-called “Coloured” community. [Their] exclusion [from] Afrikaner identity, though sharing most of the culture and speaking the same language as “Afrikaners”, forms a central theme…
** Elmarie van Huyssteen in ''Unmasking Violations Against Human Dignity in Selected Afrikaans Films in South Africa 1960-1976: A Practical Theological Investigation'', an M.Phil. dissertation at the University of Stellenbosch, December 2017.

* A language without a commercial value will die.
** Willie Hofmeyr of [[w:Naspers|Nasionale Pers]], quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* The youth culture grabs the young language by its foreskin and gives it its first democratic climax!
** [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]] quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* It is unbelievable and / or unfortunate that even until today in this constitutional democracy we still have a society that sees nothing wrong with a language that was used as a tool of segregation and discrimination during apartheid which 90 percent of South African[s] bemoan; a language whose legacy is sorrow and tears to the majority of whom it was not their mother tongue.
** Submission by Criselda Makhubela, the Sedibeng East district director, to judge Bill Prinsloo of the North Gauteng High Court in ''[http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPPHC/2017/949.pdf Overvaal Hoërskool vs. Edward Mosuwe], Head of the Gauteng Department of Education'', early January 2018.

* By the time the protesters outside Hoërskool Overvaal lobbed a petrol bomb at the police, it was clear that something as simple as a school’s language policy could still inflame deadly passions 41 years after the Soweto Uprising against Afrikaans in black schools. I could not help thinking: what is it about Afrikaans that brings out the worst in us?
** Jonathan Jansen, distinguished professor in Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University, in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/opinion/2018-01-25-why-afrikaans-still-has-the-power-to-inflame-deadly-passions-in-sa/ Why Afrikaans still has the power to inflame deadly passions in SA], ''DispatchLive'', 25 January 2018.

* The courageous fight of the Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad against the apartheid state, its unearthing of apartheid secrets during the states of emergency in Afrikaans needs a firmer place in our Struggle history. The vicious responses to Max du Preez, Jacques Pauw and Vrye Weekblad journalists by the apartheid state, where the courts were used to close it down, is part of the proud resistance history of Afrikaans.
** Danny Titus in [https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/opinion/afrikaansisgroot-whose-language-is-it-anyway-15227846 #AfrikaansIsGroot: Whose language is it anyway?], ''Cape Argus'', 30 May 2018

* I publicly and in my personal capacity disagree with the phasing out of Afrikaans as one of the mediums of teaching at the [[w:University of Pretoria|University of Pretoria]]. As a country, you are shooting yourselves down. You will regret it in 30 years’ time.
** [[w:Tito Mboweni|Tito Mboweni]] in a tweet, as quoted by Goitsemang Tlhabye in [https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/titomboweni-tweet-draws-roses-brickbats-19003640 #TitoMboweni tweet draws roses, brickbats], ''Pretoria News'', 28 January 2019.

* There was some misunderstanding between ourselves and the minority groups in the country, to be quite frank, especially people that are speaking Afrikaans, because the previous regime invested a lot of resources and energy in them. Our coloured communities feel marginalised, not loved, feel they are on the periphery. 
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], the Gauteng education MEC, as quoted by Nonkululeko Njilo in [https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-05-03-panyaza-lesufi-leaves-office-proud-of-advances-in-township-education/ Panyaza Lesufi leaves office proud of advances in township education], ''SowetanLIVE'', 16 April 2019.

* Everyone knows that the [[w:Democratic Alliance|DA]] has failed to stand up for Afrikaans language and cultural rights despite their guarantee in the Constitution.
** [[w:R. W. Johnson|R. W. Johnson]] in [https://www.biznews.com/leadership/2019/05/24/strange-days-da-rw-johnson Strange days in the DA], ''PoliticsWeb'' and ''BizNews'', 22 May 2019.

* For Afrikaans as a language of instruction, this is a major setback. The language's ability to subsequently recover at tertiary level is most limited if aggressive efforts are not made from Afrikaans ranks to keep it alive as a language of instruction. Being pro-Afrikaans does not mean being anti-English. For that we have empathy. This is about the official recognition of a language and everything that happens concerning it. This is about the violation of a basic human right, namely the maintenance of a language.
** Danie van Wyk of the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysontwikkelingstrust in [https://www.litnet.co.za/konstitusionele-hof-wys-weer-hy-dien-engelse-kolonialisme-danie-van-wyk-reageer-op-hofbeslissing/ Konstitusionele Hof dien Afrikaans ’n gevoelige slag toe], commenting on the judgement of the [[w:Constitutional Court of South Africa|Constitutional Court]] in [https://www.litnet.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/FinalJudgmentCCT311-17Gelyke-KansevStellenbosch-University.pdf Gelyke Kanse vs. Senate of the University of Stellenbosch] (2019), ''LitNet'', 11 October 2019.

* The fact the [[w:Supreme Court of Appeal (South Africa)|Supreme Court of Appeal]] delivered this ruling is of great interest – it is the highest court that has yet ruled in favour of Afrikaans education on tertiary level. The cost order against [[w:University of South Africa|Unisa]] further confirms the moral high ground of students who demand the right to education in their native language. ... The ruling emphasises that Afrikaans also has a place on government-supported campuses.
** Alana Bailey of [[w:AfriForum|Afriforum]] quoted in [https://www.afriforum.co.za/en/afriforum-ruling-on-unisa-language-policy-an-enormous-victory-for-afrikaans/ Afriforum: Ruling on Unisa Language Policy an Enormous Victory for Afrikaans], ''Afriforum'', 1 July 2020.


* ... the [[w:Democratic Alliance|DA]] is already preparing for a historic and unprecedented political campaign to demand that Afrikaans be equated with English at [[w:Stellenbosch University|SU]].
** Dr. [[w:Leon Schreiber|Leon Schreiber]], DA-[[w:National Assembly of South Africa|MP]], quoted in [https://maroelamedia.co.za/nuus/sa-nuus/da-publiseer-bewyse-van-us-rektor-se-aanval-op-moedertaalonderrig/ DA publiseer bewyse van US-rektor se aanval op moedertaalonderrig], ''Maroela Media'', 18 October 2020.


* Inclusivity means that you involve all the speakers of all the varieties on an equal footing. No variety, including the standard variety, is considered more important than the others. Afrikaans is the sum of the language's varieties. We need to be able to greet each other with a ''mirrag'', ''hoesit'', ''saloet'' and ''aweh''. ... Broad alliances – in the spirit of the multilingualism advocate dr. [[w:Neville Alexander|Neville Alexander]] – is required to oppose the hegemony of English and create space for the indigenous languages, Afrikaans included.
** Dr. Conrad Steenkamp of the Afrikaanse Taalraad, quoted in [https://maroelamedia.co.za/afrikaans/afrikaanse-taalraad-se-nuwe-direksie-fokus-op-taaldiversiteit-inklusiwiteit/ Afrikaanse Taalraad se nuwe direksie fokus op taaldiversiteit-inklusiwiteit], ''Maroela Media'', 19 October 2020.

* ... the new language policy [at Stellenbosch University] must explicitly commit to increasing the Afrikaans offer to ensure full access for all deserving students who wish to study in Afrikaans ...
** Dr. [[w:Leon Schreiber|Leon Schreiber]], DA-[[w:National Assembly of South Africa|MP]], quoted by Unathi Nkanjeni in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-03-23-make-afrikaans-equal-to-english-da-launches-petition-to-end-war-against-mother-tongue-at-su/ 'Make Afrikaans equal to English': DA launches petition to end 'war' against mother tongue at SU], ''TimesLive'', 23 March 2021.

* ... one finds that that those who are calling for the exclusive use of Afrikaans in certain schools are actually inviting antipathy [which takes the] form of annual political football that politicians use to their advantage, which is a shame. Afrikaans is not an exclusive language for racist Afrikaners. In fact, the majority of its speakers, by dint of history, are not “Afrikaners”, ...
** Mashudu Mashige, research professor at [[w:University of Venda|University of Venḓa]], in [https://www.litnet.co.za/abusing-language-for-narrow-socio-political-and-racist-interests/ (Ab)using language for narrow socio-political and racist interests], ''Litnet'', 2 March 2022.

==See also==
* [[Afrikaans proverbs]]

== External links ==
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Afrikaans

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JMK:

[[File:AfrikaanseTaalmonumentSlogan.jpg|thumb|right|Emblazoned on the entranceway to the [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|Afrikaans Language Monument]]:<center>''Dit is ons erns''</center>"It is our solemnity" is a paraphrasing of [[w:Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan)|Onze Jan]]'s question of 1905: "Is it our solemnity?" (''Is 't ons ernst?'')]]
'''[[w:Afrikaans|Afrikaans]]''' is a language similar to [[w:Dutch language|Dutch]] spoken mostly in southern [[Africa]].

== Quotes ==
===17th century===
* A custom exists among our entire nation, where the inland peoples acquire the Dutch language, that they pronounce it in a very crooked and incomprehensible way, and cause us to imitate them therein, so that our Dutch children also acquire this practice, and the basis is laid for a broken language which eventually will be impossible to exterminate. Even less shall we be able to introduce the Dutch language among the Hottentot peoples, while they lack no competence in pronouncing the words correctly, without error, if you endeavor to dictate carefully to them, to which we should invest somewhat greater care.
** [[w:Hendrik van Rheede|Hendrik van Rheede]] anticipates a [[w:patois|patois]] in his 1685 diary, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 148, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

===18th century===
* The language of the rural people is as little pure Dutch as the language of German farmers is pure German. The men have a fulsome speech and the women folk have assumed ways of speaking which at times are truly ridiculous.
* Translated from German: ''Die Sprache der Landleute ist so wenig reine Holländische Mundart als die teutschen Bauern reines Teutsch sprechen. Die Mannspersonen nehmen das Maul dabei sehr voll, und das Frauenvolk hat Redensarten angenommen, die zuweilen recht lächerlich sind. Zum Exempel. Man frägt etwan, ob sie keine Bibel haben, so erfolgt die Antwort: "Onz heeft" geen Bijbel ... Wenn man sie aber aldann frägt: Wie viel Unzen gehen auf ein Pfund? so werden die schamroth.''
** Otto Friedrich Mentzel in Vollständige geographische und topographische Beschreibung des afrikanischen Vorgebirges der Guten Hoffnung, Volume II, Chapter 7, Glogau (1785–1787), as quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, pp. 149–150, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}. Mentzel proceeds by quoting an example of their affected grammar which suggests future Afrikaans.

===19th century===
* He had lost his mother tongue almost completely and acquired the mutilated Dutch of the colonists.
** [[w:Martin Lichtenstein|Martin Lichtenstein]] in Reisen im südlichen Afrika II (1803–1806), p. 151, in reference to German botanist J. A. Auge who settled in the Cape and assumed the vernacular.

* [I am acquainted with] that kind of bastard Dutch which was spoken in this country by the farmers and slaves, as well as among the Hottentots and various other heathen races, and which is not entirely absent from the speech of even the most cultured among Christians and the upper classes of people.
** J. G. Swaving referring to the Cape-Dutch he encountered as an interpreter at the Cape Supreme Court in 1828, as quoted in [https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02590190_585 The Coloured Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town] by Achmat Davids, p. 39.

* The main purpose of the following collection, as one can immediately infer from the title of our work, was to eradicate from the Dutch spoken in this Colony, if it can be referred to by that name, words and expressions which are either entirely strange or mutilated, or at least to indicate in which way this may be done.
* Translated from Dutch: ''Het hoofddoel van de volgende verzameling, gelijk men al dadelijk uit den titel van ons werk kan afleiden, was om het Nederduitsch, voor zoo ver de taal, die in deze Kolonie gesproken wordt, dien naam dragen mag, van deels geheel vreemde, deels verminkte woorden en spreekwijzen te zuiveren, of althans den weg daartoe aan te wijzen.''

** [[w:Antoine Changuion|Antoine N. E. Changuion]] in Proeve van Kaapsch Taaleigen, included as a supplement to the second edition (1848) of his Nederduitsche taal in Zuid-Afrika hersteld [i.e. "Dutch language restored in South Africa"], Rotterdam: J. van der Vliet (1844).

* You can trust me that the ''plat Hollands'' is read more among us farmers than that which Changuion wants to teach us in his booklets.
* Translated from [[w:Cape Dutch|Cape Dutch]]: ''Jij kan ver mij gloo dat die plat Hollans meer gelees wor onder ons boere as die wat Sankion ver ons wil leer in zijn boekies.''
** A resident of [[w:Montagu, Western Cape|Montagu]] writing in reply to Changuion, as quoted by [[w:Johannes du Plessis Scholtz|Scholtz, J. du P.]] (1965). Die Afrikaner en sy taal 1806-1875: p. 180. Cape Town: Nasou.

* The language of the Cape! … As if the miserable, bastard jargon, which is the vernacular of this country, is worthy of the name of language at all. … The poverty of expression in this jargon is such, that we defy any man to express thought in it above the merest common-place … There can be no literature with such a language, for poor as it is, it is hardly a written one … Let, then, your language and your nationality go, and believe us, you need not fear for your religion.
** Editorial in [[w:Cape Argus|The Cape Argus]], 19 September 1857, a call for the extermination of the "atrocious vernacular of the Cape", the supposed nationality associated with it, and its replacement by English, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 212, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

* You neither speak Dutch, that is the pure old Holland vernacular, much less would you soil your lips with the [[w:patois|patois]] of the Hottentots about us. This I am sure is no offence, if I say you express your thoughts in a way which is not recognised in your pulpits, is not read in your books of law, does not figure in your scientific folios, and far less is it recognised as a language of an enlightened people, for it does not provide a descent vocabulary for the lowest of the low, nor for the highest of the lofty … It is one which is doing you and your children incalculable harm. It cramps your thoughts. It impedes your energies. It brings the blush to every modest women's cheeks, and makes the educated recoil with disgust too often. It corrupts the morals of your children, and befouls their innocent expressions ...
**The Cape Monitor, 14 October 1857, quoted in Afrikaans en sy Europese Verlede, E. H. Raidt, p. 212, 1980, {{ISBN|0625014421}}.

* People tell you that Afrikaans isn't a language, because it is composed of Dutch, French, Hottentot, etc. However, the manner in which the English language is patched together is wisely hidden.
** Rev. [[w:Stephanus Jacobus du Toit|S. J. du Toit]], ''[[w:De Zuid-Afrikaan|De Zuid-Afrikaan]]'', 11 July 1874.

* True Afrikaners, we call on you to acknowledge with us that the Afrikaans language is the mother tongue that our Dear Lord gave us; and to make a stand with us through thick and thin for our language; and not to rest before our language is generally acknowledged as the national language of our country.
** Exhortation in ''[[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|Die Afrikaanse Patriot]]'', 15 January 1876.

* An attempt is being made by a number of jokers near Cape Town to reduce the "plat Hollands" of the street and the kitchen to a written language and perpetuate it. They are carrying their joke well. They have a newspaper, have published a history of the colony, an almanack, and to crown the joke — a grammar. ... The promoters of the ''Patriot'' (accent the last syllable) movement are laughed at and ridiculed but they stick to their joke.
**The English press of Cape Town derides the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]], 1876, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 49, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.
[[File:John_Henry_De_Villiers_-_Baron_and_Attorney_General_-_Cape_Colony.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Poor in the number of its words, weak in its inflections, wanting in accuracy of meaning – [[w:John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers|Lord J. H. de Villiers]]]]

* Poor in the number of its words, weak in its inflections, wanting in accuracy of meaning and incapable in expressing ideas connected with the higher spheres of thought, it will have to undergo great modification before it will be able to produce a literature worthy of the name.
** [[w:John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers|Lord J. H. de Villiers]] in 1876, quoted in ''The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: "The First Congress" Phenomenon'', Joshua A. Fishman (ed.), p. 12

* [They] who … see no possibility of maintaining, or, rather, of restoring among the mass of the old Colonists the language of Holland, would keep out English by trying to make the lingo and slang of the lowest Hottentots the language of these people – even South Africa.
** [[w:Cape Argus|The Cape Argus]], 19 September 1877, commenting on the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]] and their followers, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 56, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* The protection of our mother tongue must be the most important consideration of such a Bond, for language and nation are one, and those who do not see this as objective, had better not become members of our bond
**Translated from Afrikaans: ''Die beskerming van ons Landstaal moet hoofsaak wees van so 'n Bond, want taal en nasie es een, en di wat dit ni tot doelwit stel ni, moet liewers ni lid worde van ons bond ni''
** Rev. [[w:Stephanus Jacobus du Toit|S. J. du Toit]] of the [[w:Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners|GRA]] on the [[w:Afrikaner Bond|Afrikaner Bond]] party, c. 1881, which would include [[w:Cecil John Rhodes|C. J. Rhodes]] as member, quoted in The Genesis of Afrikaans, by Achmat Davids, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, pp. 55–56, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* [Although] phonetically Teutonic, it is psychologically essentially a Hottentot idiom. ... It can hardly be expected that the descendants of the Malayo-Polynesian slaves and Hottentot servants, who originally spoke an agglutinative tongue, will have any improving influence on an inflecting language.
** Dr. Theophilus Hahn in a lecture at the [[w:National Library of South Africa|South African Public Library]] on 29 April 1882, as quoted in [https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02590190_585 The Coloured Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town] by Achmat Davids, p. 37

* For intellectual training Africander Dutch offers no scope, for it has no literature and a very poor vocabulary. For internal intercourse and as a trade-medium English is superior to it; and for foreign trade it stands nowhere.
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] as a [[w:Stellenbosch University|Victoria College]] student in 1893, quoted in [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/kann003gesk01_01/kann003gesk01_01_0016.php J. C. Kannemeyer], Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur 1., p. 173, ''Academica'', Pretoria / Cape Town, 1984.

===20th century===
* Afrikaans ... elegant; so simple, serious, and earnest.
** Translated from Dutch: ''Afrikaansch ... mooi; zoo eenvoudig, ernstig, en oprecht gemeend''
** [[:af:Hjalmar Reitz|Hjalmar Reitz]] in 1903, as quoted in Boer en Brit: Afrikaanse en Nederlandse tekste uit en om die Anglo-Boereoorlog, p. 285, by Ena Jansen & Wilfred Jonckheere, 1999.

* The general does not use pure Afrikaans in his speeches, nor a Dutch that can easily be confused with the language of a Dutchman, but a kind of Afrikaans with Dutch inflections that he inserts haphazardly without any particular plan, so that every now and then, by pure chance, he gets one of them in the right place.
** Translated from Afrikaans: ''Die generaal gebruik nie suiwer Afrikaans in sijn toesprake nie en ook nie 'n Hollands wat met die taal van 'n Hollander maklik kan verwar word nie, maar 'n soort Afrikaans met hollandse verbuiginge wat hij sonder 'n bepaalde plan holderste bolder inlas sodat daar nou en dan bij toeval een op die regte plek kom.''
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] commenting on the language spoken by general [[w:Louis Botha|Louis Botha]], quoted in Kannemeyer, J. C., 1995. "Langenhoven. 'n Lewe.", ''Tafelberg'', p. 302

* For how long shall we entertain two thoughts? If Dutch is our language, why do we not speak it? If Afrikaans is our language, why do we not write it?
**Translated from Afrikaans: ''Hoe lank sal ons hink op twee gedagtes? As Nederlands ons taal is, waarom praat ons hom nie? As Afrikaans ons taal is, waarom skryf ons hom nie?''
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] in 1911, quoted by J. C. Kannemeyer, p. 241, 1995.

* The Provincial Council accepted my motion that enables Afrikaans as a permissible medium up to the fourth standard.
** [[w:Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]] in a telegram to his wife on 23 April 1914, quoted in J. C. Kannemeyer, 1995, pp. 296–7. It implied that Afrikaans received official status in the Cape as medium of instruction in the first six school years, and would effectively replace Dutch in this respect. The Christian community at [[w:Genadendal |Genadendal]] and the Muslim community of the Dorp street [[w:Madrasa|madrasa]], Cape Town, had however used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction many years earlier.

* Be loyal unto death to your traditions, to your religion, to your language and to your people.
* Translated from Afrikaans/Dutch: ''Wees getrou tot den dood aan uwe tradities, aan uw Godsdie[nst,] aan uw taal, aan uw volk.''
** Final admonition by [[Jopie Fourie]] before his execution on 20 December 1914, as quoted by Luan Schalkwyk in [https://www.kraaluitgewers.co.za/jopie-fourie-rebelle-held-se-afskeidsbrief-ure-voor-sy-dood/ Jopie Fourie: Rebelle-held se afskeidsbrief ure voor sy dood], ''Kraal Uitgewers'', 21 June 2017.

* If Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom went to ruin it would be an irrevocable catastrophe for South Africa. And it must not happen under any circumstances, for who has up to now preserved Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom? Not these people who hold symposia and talk big. The National Party brought Afrikaans and Afrikanerdom into being. ... Afrikaans is spoken in circles in which it was never spoken before. Today there is respect for Afrikaans from people who never had respect for it before. We should not complain that Afrikaans is going to ruin [due to language policy]. We should take pride and rejoice that Afrikaans is progressing with rapid strides in South Africa!
** [[John Vorster]] in his [http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/extract-speech-made-heilbron-16-august-1968 Heilbron speech] on 16 August 1968, as quoted in ''sahistory.org.za''.

* ...a bridge between the great, luminous West and magical Africa … Our task lies in the current and future implementation of this gleaming vehicle ...
** [[w:N. P. van Wyk Louw|N. P. van Wyk Louw]], quoted on a plaque at the [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|Afrikaans Language Monument]]
[[File:MakgobaHillLecture.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Afrikaans is a cancer that must be destroyed – [[w:Malegapuru William Makgoba|M. W. Makgoba]]]]
* Were it not that Afrikaans literature glorifies white supremacy, and were it not for the unutterable evil this literature breathes, one would simply dismiss it as inane, a crushing bore.
**[[w:Es'kia Mphahlele|Es'kia Mphahlele]], 1974, The Function of Literature at the Present Time: The Ethnic Imperative.
::– Literature in the ethos of Boerneef, 1938, ''Boplaas'', is taken to be intended here, which would treat its coloured figures as "obedient serfs" in a "feudal order", while former critics merely observed a "natural hierarchy" or "idyll".
::''cf''. [[w:Jakes Gerwel|Jakes Gerwel]], 1983, Literatuur en Apartheid. Gerwel points out similar sentiments expressed in Mphahlele, 1962, ''The African Image'', p. 107.
::''cf''. Godfrey Meintjes, 1995, Re-viewing the Past: Notes on the Rereading of Canonized Literary Texts, Rhodes University
::''cf''. Ampie Coetzee, Afrikaans Literature in the Service of Ethnic Politics?, in Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, p. 103, 1996, Robert & Ethel Kriger.

* Will Afrikaans survive the Afrikaner empire?
**[[w:Jakes Gerwel|Jakes Gerwel]] in 1975, quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* The recent strikes by schools against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction is a sign of demonstration against schools' systematised to producing 'good industrial boys' for the powers that be... We therefore resolve to totally reject the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction, to fully support the students who took the stand in the rejection of this dialect [and] also to condemn the racially separated education system.
** Resolution at a conference in Roodepoort of the South African Student Movement (SASM), proposed by V. Ngema and seconded by T. Motapanyane on 28 May 1976, denouncing Afrikaans and promoting boycotting of classes, as quoted in [http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/resolution-against-use-afrikaans-taken-during-sasm-conference-roodepoort A resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort], ''sahistory.org.za''

* The government is prepared to be as accommodating as possible as far as the use of Afrikaans at African schools is concerned. ... In the white areas of South Africa [however, including Soweto], where the government erects the buildings, grants the subsidies and pays the teachers, it is our right to decide on language policy. The same applies to schools in areas where there is no compulsory education. Why are pupils sent to schools if [the government's] language policy does not suit them?
** [[w:Andries Treurnicht|Andries Treurnicht]] on 17 June 1976 in Windhoek, in the aftermath of the [[w:Soweto uprising|Soweto riots]], as quoted in [http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/down-afrikaans-oakes-d-ed1988-illustrated-history-south-africa-%26ndash%3B-real-story-reader%E2%80%99s-digest- Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed.), 1988. Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest: Cape Town], ''sahistory.org.za''

* Unfortunately Afrikaans acquired certain historic connotations that resulted in its rejection by the black man, and these are political connotations.
**[[w:Steve Biko|Steve Biko]] (1946–1977) quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* And Afrikaans, this child from the soil of Africa, has already become an instrument for millions of people – yes, for more than just the Afrikaner … God's plan, however, had been the creation of another civilization with a new language from Africa … Afrikaans and this beautiful southern land are undeniably grown together.
**[[P. W. Botha]], quoted in [[w:The Citizen (South Africa)|The Citizen]], 19 May 1985.

* Afrikaans is a language that grew and developed from the soil of South Africa, aided by a variety of languages and cultures in our land, rooted in the search for an own identity and freedom. Its power and hope for the future has never been based on special privilege; but rather as one of the languages of South Africa which will have to meet the future shoulder to shoulder, with mutual respect and equal rights.
** [[Nelson Mandela]], in an [http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/1995/950817_atkv.htm address] to the [[w:ATKV|ATKV]], delivered in Afrikaans on 17 August 1995.

===21st century===
* At present local English does not seem to have any particular social value, and thus there is no apparent reason for its speakers to wish to preserve its distinctive features. This is not true of non-standard Afrikaans, which is valued as warm, intimate, and a sign of membership of the community.
** Kay McCormick in "Language in South Africa", p. 224, Rajend Mesthrie (ed.), 17 October 2002.

* Seen socio-linguistically, a language can never fully clothe the intellectual and affective life of its speakers unless granted entree to all functions. Of particular importance is that a language must enjoy access to the academic-scientific fields of language such as in politics, law, the media, and the university. Throughout the twentieth century, for just the reason of realising this ideal, immense expertise and energy went into developing Afrikaans. One thinks ... of the numerous scholars who could have made their mark internationally but chose instead to devote themselves to Afrikaans.
** H. P. van Coller in "The Medium of Teaching at South African Universities: the Position of Afrikaans" (August 2002), as quoted in "Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century", p. 106, ''Rodopi'', 2005.

* ...architect Jan van Wijk’s [[w:Afrikaans Language Monument|remarkable 1975 tribute]] to one of the world’s ugliest languages makes, if nothing else, a great picnic spot on the way to the wine lands of Franschhoek and Stellenbosch.
**Bronwyn Davies or editor Richard Cook, in [[w:Wallpaper (magazine)|Wallpaper]], September 2005.

*…as it happens I am Afrikaans. …I actually do not think about it too much, just as I do not think about it too much that I have a liver. The current flutterings about Afrikaans, however, I find disturbing. It is not doing the image of Afrikaners, and hence also of Afrikaans, any good. …to beat one's chest in such a self-justificatory manner [a mere ten years after the end of apartheid] is bad taste morally. […] We are … being called up by certain parties to mobilise for Afrikaans, to fight for the survival of Afrikaans, and for minority rights. The problem is, however, that I do not see myself currently as part of a minority. When, in the 1970s and 1980s, as an Afrikaner, I resisted apartheid – and not in the 1990s when it became fashionable – then I felt myself part of a minority.
**[[Paul Cilliers]] in a letter to ''Die Burger'' (10 October 2005), as cited in ''No Lesser Place: The Taaldebat at Stellenbosch'', p. 133, Chris Brink (2006)

* At school, Afrikaans was a compulsory subject that I disliked intensely; it was a harsh language, like the people who spoke it. [...] In my father’s shop, ... I found ... to my surprise, that I was beginning to enjoy the language. [The] warm straightforwardness and ... earthiness in many of these people ... was richly and idiomatically expressed in their speech. And, although I have never advanced beyond being able to speak a sort of kombuistaal, I delighted in our conversations.
** [[:w:David Goldblatt|David Goldblatt]] in "Some Afrikaners Photographed, 1975 – Some Afrikaners Revisited, 2006", 2006.

* Slaves and Khoikhoi servants had the greatest hand in the development of the restructured Dutch. In the course of the eighteenth century both burghers and their servants, in interaction with each other, took the restructuring further. Dutch was simplified and a considerable amount of Malayo-Portuguese, as spoken the slaves, was injected. By the end of the century Cape Dutch had largely become what is now Afrikaans. In the western Cape, especially in its rural towns and farms, the main variety of Afrikaans took root as the shared cultural creation...
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* The first attempt to formulate a distinctive Afrikaner historiography was made by [Afrikaner] residents of the small town of Paarl [who] founded the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Society of True Afrikaners). They were effectively reacting against cultural domination by the British colonial regime. ... They based their own history on publications by European authors who were critical of British imperialism and on private correspondence and interviews with fellow Afrikaners. Though this was simple, naive history, it was a path-breaking achievement. It was the first book published in Afrikaans – the spoken language of the people – as distinct from Dutch, from which it had grown apart in the South African milieu by simplifying the syntax, changing the vowel sounds, losing vocabulary items that were not relevant, and incorporating loan words from the other languages that were spoken at the Cape in the eighteenth century – Malay, Portuguese creole, and Khoikhoi.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* The seeds planted by the Paarl thought leadership did not bear much fruit so long as Afrikaners were divided between colonial and republican regimes. ... In spite of many setbacks, Afrikaner leadership gradually attained their nationalist goals... They also re-segregated the white group into Afrikaans-speaking versus the rest. Afrikaans became the premier official language while English was given second-class treatment. The leadership vowed that there was to be no mixing of language, no mixing of cultures, no mixing of religions and no mixing of races.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* At the heart of Afrikaner nationalist struggle was the attempt to imagine a new national community with its language enjoying parity of esteem with English in the public sphere. ... This meant that Afrikaans had to be heard in parliament, the civil service, schools, colleges and universities, and in the world of business and finance; it had to be the medium of newspapers, novels, and poems, giving expression to what was truly South African. Instead of English-speakers portraying Afrikaners in reports, novels or histories as everything they were not: unrefined, semi-literate, racist, dogmatic, and unprogressive, Afrikaners had to define and represent themselves as the true South Africans.
** [[w:Mac Maharaj|Mac Maharaj]] in The Foundational Study: [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv04015/05lv04154/06lv04196/07lv04198.htm African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience], III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

* A good local example of [the process of promoting a language] is Afrikaans: a 150 years ago, Afrikaans was generally regarded as “a mere vernacular” (in the negative sense of the word), used only in the lowest social functions, was without a writing system and had no literature. Gradually, however, it became used as an instrument in the struggle against the imperialism of the British colonial government and against the Dutch-oriented elite’s preference for Dutch (and English) in high-function contexts[.] A number of teachers and church ministers then initiated a movement directed at the development (corpus planning) and promotion (status and prestige planning) of Afrikaans. Gradually, a feeling of pride in and loyalty to Afrikaans developed, and within about 60 years Afrikaans was recognised as a language of the public domain[,] a fully-fledged standard language.
** Michel Lafon and Vic Webb in [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00449090/document The Standardisation of African Languages ― Language political realities], p. 17, ''IFAS'', 2008.

* Few languages have engendered as much controversy, with regard to both historical development and place in modern society.
** Anthony F. Buccini and co-authors in [https://www.britannica.com/topic/West-Germanic-languages#ref603807 West Germanic languages: Afrikaans], ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', 2010.

* Afrikaans will survive and develop further in a range of dialects. That is important to me, that type of freedom. The Afrikaners don’t mean much to me.
** [[w:Koos Kombuis|Koos Kombuis]], as quoted in [https://mg.co.za/article/2013-04-12-00-oh-broeder-where-is-the-volk-now/ Oh broeder, where is the volk now?], Staff Reporter, ''Mail & Guardian'', 12 April 2013.

* This is why Afrikaans-exclusive or even Afrikaans-dominant white schools and universities represent a serious threat to race relations in South Africa. You simply cannot prepare young people for dealing with the scars of our violent past without creating optimal opportunities in the educational environment for living and learning together.
** Jonathan Jansen, [[w:Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[w:University of the Free State|University of the Free State]] in the [http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lees-dit-self-Hier-is-wat-prof-Jonathan-Jansen-se-oor-Afrikaans-op-skool-20131003 The Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture] on 18 September 2013, as quoted in [[w:Rapport (newspaper)|Rapport]]. Also see [https://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-04-wrest-power-from-english-tyranny Jansen: Wrest power from English tyranny], ''Mail & Guardian'', 4 October 2013.

* Afrikaans is a cancer that must be destroyed.
** Prof. [[w:Malegapuru William Makgoba|M. W. Makgoba]], [[w:Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[w:University of KwaZulu-Natal|University of KwaZulu-Natal]], in support of suggestions that Afrikaans courses be discontinued at this university, quoted in [[w:Beeld|Beeld]], 24 October 2013.

* By the 1990s Afrikaans was no longer the instrument of a chauvinistic Afrikaner nationalism. Afrikaner historians had begun to stress the multifaceted nature of our history, Afrikaans as a medium of instruction was no longer imposed on black schools and the language had been scaled back drastically on state radio and television. But [it could be celebrated that] Afrikaans, along with only three others (Hebrew, Indonesian and Hindi) were the only languages that in the course of the twentieth century made the transition from a low status, spoken language to a language used in all walks of public life, including literature, science and technology.
** [[w:Hermann Giliomee|Hermann Giliomee]] in [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-war-against-afrikaans-at-stellenbosch The war against Afrikaans at Stellenbosch], ''politicsweb'', 28 April 2016.

* The past 15 years have been characterised by an increasing migration of Afrikaans speakers into the digital space – a space that offers exciting new opportunities for Afrikaans.
** Laurette Pretorius in [http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0041-47512016000400007 The role of the Afrikaans Wikipedia in the growth of Afrikaans], Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, vol. 56, no. 2-1, pp. 371-390, 2016.

* ... socio-political history often casts Afrikaans as the language of racists, oppressors and unreconstructed nationalists. But [Afrikaans] also bears the imprint of a fierce tradition of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, of an all-embracing humanism and anti-apartheid activism.
** [[w:Hein Willemse|Hein Willemse]] of the [[w:University of Pretoria|University of Pretoria]], [http://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2465048-more-than-an-oppressors-language-reclaiming-the-hidden-history-of-afrikaans More than an oppressor's language: reclaiming the hidden history of Afrikaans], 12 May 2017.

* The world [of 2017] looks completely different than in 1937. Then, communication was limited, and the introduction of radio – in Afrikaans – changed the world.
** SABC in [http://www.sabc2.co.za/sabc/home/sabc2/news/details?id=31216093-fdf3-4893-a9d9-73472a0e4d75 RSG celebrates 80 years of Afrikaans radio], 26 October 2017.

* ''[[w:Die Kandidaat|Die Kandidaat]]'', ''[[w:Katrina (film)|Katrina]]'' and ''[[w:Jannie totsiens|Jannie Totsiens]]'' constitute the golden era of Afrikaans film, as they delivered products of quality and intent which have probably not been met since. … these dynamic films sought to open up the eyes of the viewers to the brutally harmful and hurtful results of institutionalised apartheid on the other segments of the society, especially so to the so-called “Coloured” community. [Their] exclusion [from] Afrikaner identity, though sharing most of the culture and speaking the same language as “Afrikaners”, forms a central theme…
** Elmarie van Huyssteen in ''Unmasking Violations Against Human Dignity in Selected Afrikaans Films in South Africa 1960-1976: A Practical Theological Investigation'', an M.Phil. dissertation at the University of Stellenbosch, December 2017.

* A language without a commercial value will die.
** Willie Hofmeyr of [[w:Naspers|Nasionale Pers]], quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* The youth culture grabs the young language by its foreskin and gives it its first democratic climax!
** [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]] quoted in Sêgoed met slaankrag: 3 000+ van die slimste, snaaksste en soms onnoselste Suid-Afrikaanse aanhalings, George Claassen, {{ISBN|0624063194}}.

* It is unbelievable and / or unfortunate that even until today in this constitutional democracy we still have a society that sees nothing wrong with a language that was used as a tool of segregation and discrimination during apartheid which 90 percent of South African[s] bemoan; a language whose legacy is sorrow and tears to the majority of whom it was not their mother tongue.
** Submission by Criselda Makhubela, the Sedibeng East district director, to judge Bill Prinsloo of the North Gauteng High Court in ''[http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPPHC/2017/949.pdf Overvaal Hoërskool vs. Edward Mosuwe], Head of the Gauteng Department of Education'', early January 2018.

* By the time the protesters outside Hoërskool Overvaal lobbed a petrol bomb at the police, it was clear that something as simple as a school’s language policy could still inflame deadly passions 41 years after the Soweto Uprising against Afrikaans in black schools. I could not help thinking: what is it about Afrikaans that brings out the worst in us?
** Jonathan Jansen, distinguished professor in Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University, in [https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/opinion/2018-01-25-why-afrikaans-still-has-the-power-to-inflame-deadly-passions-in-sa/ Why Afrikaans still has the power to inflame deadly passions in SA], ''DispatchLive'', 25 January 2018.

* The courageous fight of the Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad against the apartheid state, its unearthing of apartheid secrets during the states of emergency in Afrikaans needs a firmer place in our Struggle history. The vicious responses to Max du Preez, Jacques Pauw and Vrye Weekblad journalists by the apartheid state, where the courts were used to close it down, is part of the proud resistance history of Afrikaans.
** Danny Titus in [https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/opinion/afrikaansisgroot-whose-language-is-it-anyway-15227846 #AfrikaansIsGroot: Whose language is it anyway?], ''Cape Argus'', 30 May 2018

* I publicly and in my personal capacity disagree with the phasing out of Afrikaans as one of the mediums of teaching at the [[w:University of Pretoria|University of Pretoria]]. As a country, you are shooting yourselves down. You will regret it in 30 years’ time.
** [[w:Tito Mboweni|Tito Mboweni]] in a tweet, as quoted by Goitsemang Tlhabye in [https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/titomboweni-tweet-draws-roses-brickbats-19003640 #TitoMboweni tweet draws roses, brickbats], ''Pretoria News'', 28 January 2019.

* There was some misunderstanding between ourselves and the minority groups in the country, to be quite frank, especially people that are speaking Afrikaans, because the previous regime invested a lot of resources and energy in them. Our coloured communities feel marginalised, not loved, feel they are on the periphery. 
** [[w:Panyaza Lesufi|Panyaza Lesufi]], the Gauteng education MEC, as quoted by Nonkululeko Njilo in [https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-05-03-panyaza-lesufi-leaves-office-proud-of-advances-in-township-education/ Panyaza Lesufi leaves office proud of advances in township education], ''SowetanLIVE'', 16 April 2019.

* Everyone knows that the [[w:Democratic Alliance|DA]] has failed to stand up for Afrikaans language and cultural rights despite their guarantee in the Constitution.
** [[w:R. W. Johnson|R. W. Johnson]] in [https://www.biznews.com/leadership/2019/05/24/strange-days-da-rw-johnson Strange days in the DA], ''PoliticsWeb'' and ''BizNews'', 22 May 2019.

* For Afrikaans as a language of instruction, this is a major setback. The language's ability to subsequently recover at tertiary level is most limited if aggressive efforts are not made from Afrikaans ranks to keep it alive as a language of instruction. Being pro-Afrikaans does not mean being anti-English. For that we have empathy. This is about the official recognition of a language and everything that happens concerning it. This is about the violation of a basic human right, namely the maintenance of a language.
** Danie van Wyk of the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysontwikkelingstrust in [https://www.litnet.co.za/konstitusionele-hof-wys-weer-hy-dien-engelse-kolonialisme-danie-van-wyk-reageer-op-hofbeslissing/ Konstitusionele Hof dien Afrikaans ’n gevoelige slag toe], commenting on the judgement of the [[w:Constitutional Court of South Africa|Constitutional Court]] in [https://www.litnet.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/FinalJudgmentCCT311-17Gelyke-KansevStellenbosch-University.pdf Gelyke Kanse vs. Senate of the University of Stellenbosch] (2019), ''LitNet'', 11 October 2019.

* The fact the [[w:Supreme Court of Appeal (South Africa)|Supreme Court of Appeal]] delivered this ruling is of great interest – it is the highest court that has yet ruled in favour of Afrikaans education on tertiary level. The cost order against [[w:University of South Africa|Unisa]] further confirms the moral high ground of students who demand the right to education in their native language. ... The ruling emphasises that Afrikaans also has a place on government-supported campuses.
** Alana Bailey of [[w:AfriForum|Afriforum]] quoted in [https://www.afriforum.co.za/en/afriforum-ruling-on-unisa-language-policy-an-enormous-victory-for-afrikaans/ Afriforum: Ruling on Unisa Language Policy an Enormous Victory for Afrikaans], ''Afriforum'', 1 July 2020.


* ... the [[w:Democratic Alliance|DA]] is already preparing for a historic and unprecedented political campaign to demand that Afrikaans be equated with English at [[w:Stellenbosch University|SU]].
** Dr. [[w:Leon Schreiber|Leon Schreiber]], DA-[[w:National Assembly of South Africa|MP]], quoted in [https://maroelamedia.co.za/nuus/sa-nuus/da-publiseer-bewyse-van-us-rektor-se-aanval-op-moedertaalonderrig/ DA publiseer bewyse van US-rektor se aanval op moedertaalonderrig], ''Maroela Media'', 18 October 2020.


* Inclusivity means that you involve all the speakers of all the varieties on an equal footing. No variety, including the standard variety, is considered more important than the others. Afrikaans is the sum of the language's varieties. We need to be able to greet each other with a ''mirrag'', ''hoesit'', ''saloet'' and ''aweh''. ... Broad alliances – in the spirit of the multilingualism advocate dr. [[w:Neville Alexander|Neville Alexander]] – is required to oppose the hegemony of English and create space for the indigenous languages, Afrikaans included.
** Dr. Conrad Steenkamp of the Afrikaanse Taalraad, quoted in [https://maroelamedia.co.za/afrikaans/afrikaanse-taalraad-se-nuwe-direksie-fokus-op-taaldiversiteit-inklusiwiteit/ Afrikaanse Taalraad se nuwe direksie fokus op taaldiversiteit-inklusiwiteit], ''Maroela Media'', 19 October 2020.

* ... the new language policy [at Stellenbosch University] must explicitly commit to increasing the Afrikaans offer to ensure full access for all deserving students who wish to study in Afrikaans ...
** Dr. [[w:Leon Schreiber|Leon Schreiber]], DA-[[w:National Assembly of South Africa|MP]], quoted by Unathi Nkanjeni in [https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-03-23-make-afrikaans-equal-to-english-da-launches-petition-to-end-war-against-mother-tongue-at-su/ 'Make Afrikaans equal to English': DA launches petition to end 'war' against mother tongue at SU], ''TimesLive'', 23 March 2021.

* ... one finds that that those who are calling for the exclusive use of Afrikaans in certain schools are actually inviting antipathy [which] seems to have turned into some form of annual political football that politicians use to their advantage, which is a shame. Afrikaans is not an exclusive language for racist Afrikaners. In fact, the majority of its speakers, by dint of history, are not “Afrikaners”, ...
** Mashudu Mashige, research professor at [[w:University of Venda|University of Venḓa]], in [https://www.litnet.co.za/abusing-language-for-narrow-socio-political-and-racist-interests/ (Ab)using language for narrow socio-political and racist interests], ''Litnet'', 2 March 2022.

==See also==
* [[Afrikaans proverbs]]

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