A United Kingdom * Quotes

"I am told that you no longer wish for me to honor my duties to serve you as your king because of the color of the wife I have chosen. South Africa's racialist disease has infected all our neighboring countries and us. Look around you! Our schools, hospitals, churches, all segregated in practice if not in law. Are we to now uphold the abomination that is apartheid in our own culture? The very same abomination that has been oppressing us for decades! Is this to the future for our Africa? We should not be fighting for segregation! We should be fighting for equality! That is where we should be focusing our minds, not on the wife I have chosen, who means you no harm! Whose only apparent crime has been to fall in love with me, and mine to fall in love with her! I cannot serve you without her by my side, but I cannot force you to accept this! Africa can never be free until all those who live in her, white and black, recognize that race must have no bearing on equality and justice! I am ready to serve you, because I love my people! I love this land! But I love my wife!"

"No man is free who is not master of himself. It is time for us to create a new nation, a new Africa! It is time for democracy, for independence, for us to be the masters of our own faith! It is time!"

"Are you insane! White, British, and she's a salesman daughter!"

"I am the government's representative in Southern Africa. The policy of apartheid, do you know this word? If you choose to marry the leader of an African nation you will be responsible for the downfall of the British Empire in Africa. Have you no shame?"
[to Ruth]

"She's stronger than either of us suspected. She's a woman who is loved."

"Father will hate him on sight. He's cleverer than him and he's black."

"I've met the man I want to spend my life with!"