Susan Williams > Quotes

“Bitterness does not pay. Certain things have happened to all of us in the past and it is for us to forget those and to look to the future. It is not for our own benefit, but it is for the benefit of our children and children’s children that we ourselves should put this world right.”
― Susan Williams, Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

“in South Africa. On 1 July 1949 the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was passed, which”
― Susan Williams, Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

“British colonial officials running the camps were responsible for appalling conditions, which involved deprivation of food, water and clothes and widespread torture that included castration.”
― Susan Williams, Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

“The total number of the dead in Hiroshima by the end of December 1945, when deaths from acute conditions had subsided, was approximately 140,000. About 60 per cent are thought to have died of burns from the heat rays and fire, about 20 per cent were killed by blast injuries, and the remaining 20 per cent by radiation.”
― Susan Williams, Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II

“It has been argued that the Congo initiative constituted a turning-point in the history of the United Nations. For by mobilizing the UN’s resources to intervene in the Congo, Hammarskjöld was engaging the organization in the process of decolonization.32 This was a new situation for the UN—in the general spirit of the Charter, but without the benefit of experience from the past.”
― Susan Williams, Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

“He thinks I’m a good cook, and will eat anything I set before him. He is regular in his habits and not once through our married life have I been left at home heel-tapping waiting for my ‘hubby’ to come home. We”
― Susan Williams, Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

“all persons are born equal in rights and human dignity”. It is the big issue of this century.’6”
― Susan Williams, Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation