Abram Fischer Quotes

• The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

  Abram Fischer

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  Tags in Injustice, Prejudice

• As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

  Abram Fischer

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  Tags in Majority, Oppression, Hatred

• I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

  Abram Fischer

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  Tags in Dangerous, Africa, Duty

• I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

  Abram Fischer

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  Tags in Wish, Deliberate

• If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

  Abram Fischer

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  Tags in Fight, Understand, Punishment

• Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

  Abram Fischer

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  Tags in Attached, Communist, Activities

• When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

  Abram Fischer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Consider, Precisely, Mind

Abram Fischer (7)

Birth:	23rd April, 1908
Death:	8th May, 1975
Nationality:	African
Profession:	Lawyer

About

Abram Louis Fischer, commonly known as Bram Fischer, was a South African lawyer of Afrikaner descent, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures, including Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial. Fischer is widely acknowledged as a key figure in the anti-apartheid struggle. Nelson Mandela wrote, Fischer was one of the "bravest and staunchest friends of the freedom struggle that I have ever known." Fischer joined the South African Communist Party in the 1940s and soon rose to leadership positions within the party.

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