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

“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.”
― Susan Williams, Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

“What can be done to resurrect and implement the pan-African project? Cameron Duodu too, has looked back and asked what went wrong. As a Ghanian rookie reporter he witnessed the celebrations of freedom on 6 March 1957 a few years later he reported on Ghana from the crisis in the Congo. For him the Congo’s tragedy illustrates Africa's problem with the western world, whereby the Congo is still not stable and able to relieve the poverty of its people. Lamumba, writes Duodo, sadly lost power, he lost his country and in the end, his very life. The amazing thing, he adds, is that Lamumba had done absolutely nothing against the combination of forces that wanted him dead. They just saw him as a threat to their interests. Interest narrowly defined to mean “His country has got resources. We want them. He might not give them to us so let us go get him.” All this was done, Duodu observes, to achieve the selfish end of continuing to control the Congo’s rich mineral resources, but it wasn't only the Congo they wished to control they wanted to gulp down the entire African continent, Duodu add, and some so still do.”
― Susan Williams, White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

“Beethoven has given us a confession and a credo which we, who work within and for this Organization, may well make our own. We take part in the continuous fight between conflicting interests and ideologies which so far has marked the history of mankind.”
― Susan Williams, Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

“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

“He made ‘a new art of multilateral diplomacy,’ adds Urquhart, by his skill, stamina, and resourcefulness: ‘He gave a fresh dimension to the task of international service by the qualities of his mind and of his compassionate nature.”
― Susan Williams, Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

“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

“Brother’, he insisted, ‘we have been in the game for some time now and we know how to handle the imperialists and the colonialists. The only colonialist or imperialist I trust is a dead one’.”
― Susan Williams, White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

“while in exile Nkrumah drew deep pleasure from growing his beloved roses and other flowers, and from animals and all forms of wildlife. On one occasion, two members of his entourage returned from a fishing expedition with a large turtle, which they presented to Nkrumah, assuming it would be made into soup. But he instructed them to place it in a small pool on the veranda, to live there until his hopeful return to Ghana—when the turtle would be returned to the sea.14”
― Susan Williams, White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

“The Directorate of Plans was responsible for CIA clandestine operations, which included the removal from power of foreign leaders who were seen as a threat to US interests—such as Jacobo Arbenz, the president of Guatemala, whose 1952 land reform programme had enraged wealthy planters and the United Fruit Company, a huge American corporation. Arbenz was overthrown in 1954 in a CIA operation code-named PBSUCCESS.5”
― Susan Williams, White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of 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