tpkq@charm.UUCP (Timothy Kerwin) (04/04/84)
<!> "I hate the practice of race discrimination, and in my hatred I am sustained by the fact that the overwhelming majority of mankind hate it equally. I hate the systematic inculcation of children with color prejudice, and I am sustained in that hatred by the fact that the overwhelming majority of mankind, here and abroad, are with me in that. "I hate the racial arrogance which decrees that the good things of life shall be retained as the exclusive right of a minority of the population, and which reduces the majority of the population to a position of subservience and inferiority, and maintains them as voteless chattels to work where they are told and behave as they are told by the ruling minority. I am sustained in that hatred by the fact that the overwhelming majority of mankind both in this country and abroad are with me." -- Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela is a leader of the African National Congress. He is currently imprisoned in South Africa's Robben Island prison, where he has been jailed since 1962. The US government continues it's policy of "constructive engagement" with South Africa: the State Department authorized 29 export licenses for commercial sales of more than $28.3 million in military equipment to South Africa during the fiscal years 1981-1983.