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Joe Slovo Quotes: You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.
         

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.


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We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.



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It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.



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The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.



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We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.





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