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Jai Ganesh

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Boycott Quotes

Boycott Quotes

1. In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. - Desmond Tutu

2. 'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed. - Geoffrey Boycott

3. Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue. - Aung San Suu Kyi

4. Boycott is a perfectly legitimate form of democratic protest. - J. Jayalalithaa

5. I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better. - Martina Hingis.

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