Apartheid - literally "apartness" - had been established in 1948 by Afrikaner nationalists with the goal of securing white supremacy and ensuring Afrikaner control of political power. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The word (when I use it to describe the SA regime I shall use italics) refers to separation (lit. "apartness") of "races" in South Africa, but assuredly not on a "separate-but-equal" basis. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There is a desire to bring an end to the charges and countercharges, the guilt and shame, the sense of racial "apartness," and to move toward a world in which people are judged by their personal journeys rather than by the past of the group of which they are members -- by birth and pigmentation. ❋ Unknown (2008)
No one ever had a better fix on the Marquis de Sade than Simone de Beauvoir, who called his erotic life "a combination of passionate sexual appetites with a basic emotional 'apartness'." ❋ Unknown (2008)
OKE: Apartheid, literally "apartness" in Afrikaans and Dutch, was in basic terms racism made law. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Does the “chosenness” of the Jews, granted by the acceptance of God’s Torah, entail an apartness, an eternal special-case condition? ❋ Mark Jacobson (2010)
By contrast, Orthodox Jews reinforce their identity by adhering to distinctive dietary and living codes; they see the enforced "apartness" from popular culture as a continuing sign of their Judaism. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Apartheid does literally mean "apartness" in Afrikaans, and its creators and implementors in the old South Africa instituted it because they believed the non-white population of that country was intrinsically inferior on the individual and collective levels - and they furthermore believed in a theological imperative for that separation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Derived from the Afrikaans word for "apartness," apartheid is a term that came into usage in the 1930s and signified the political policy under which the races in South Africa were subject to "separate development." ❋ Unknown (2008)
When it was built on land that had belonged to Audubon the location -- what we now call Washington Heights -- was still bucolic, suggesting its apartness from the hurlyburly of the city. ❋ Howard Kissel (2011)
Navy, commanding a nuclear-powered ship, and acting in a way that was without dignity, stature or apartness. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2011)
Israel's policy of apartness, as outlined above, is obvious. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It went without saying that Jewish holy apartness was not only chauvinistic and exclusivist but also un-American. ❋ Rabbi Sid Schwarz (2010)
From this perspective, the idea of holy apartness has newfound appeal. ❋ Rabbi Sid Schwarz (2010)
I lived in Rhodesia in 1973 and there absolutely was “ethnic apartness”, if by that you mean ❋ Unknown (2010)
- Or, should Israel practice grand apartheid (apartness), pull its settlers out of the West Bank, and let the Palestinians run it themselves, with Israel maintaining the military upper hand to punish the Palestinian government when it allows provocations to happen over the border? ❋ Unknown (2010)
The separation of the people -- their enforced apartness -- arises not out of security considerations, but racial ones. ❋ Unknown (2010)
