How different might our country look if all of us fully understood what has happened here?
“In Germany, no child finishes high school without learning about the Holocaust. Not just the facts of it but the how and the why and the gravity of it—what it means. As a result, Germans grow up appropriately aware and apologetic. British schools treat colonialism the same way, to an extent. Their children are taught the history of the Empire with a kind of disclaimer hanging over the whole thing. “Well, that was shameful, now wasn’t it?”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“That's when I realized the police were not who I thought they were. They were men first, police second.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“He just never understood how white people could be racist in South Africa. “Africa is full of black people,” he would say. “So why would you come all the way to Africa if you hate black people? If you hate black people so much, why did you move into their house?” To him it was insane.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“People say, “Oh, that’s a handout.” No. I still have to work to profit by it. But I don’t stand a chance without it.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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