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Harry Heinz Schwarz fue un destacado abogado y estadista sudafricano de origen judío alemán, conocido por ser uno de los principales opositores al apartheid en su país, sirviendo por 17 años en el parlamento de Sudáfrica para luego ocupar el puesto de embajador sudafricano en los Estados Unidos de 1991 a 1995.

A pesar de haber pasado una infancia en la pobreza como refugiado, debido a su condición de judío alemán, Harry Schwarz se convirtió en un apreciado abogado y pronto se convirtió en miembro del Consejo Provincial de Transvaal, donde desde 1963 y hasta 1974, fue el líder de la oposición en la provincia de Transvaal. En 1964 fue abogado defensor en el proceso de Rivonia. Como líder del Partido Unido en Transvaal lideró a los liberales "Young Turks" para escindirse del Partido Unido y formar el Partido Reformista, el cual lideró, además reordenó a la oposición política en Sudáfrica. Como líder de la oposición en el Parlamento de Sudáfrica, conocido por sus afilados ataques sobre el Partido Nacional, ostentó el puesto de Ministro de Finanzas así como el de Defensa en la oposición. Fue miembro fundador del Partido Demócrata de Sudáfrica y abogó por la causa de la resistencia no violenta al apartheid. Durante y después de la transición a la democracia de Sudáfrica fue Embajador de Sudáfrica en Estados Unidos, Alto Diplomático de Sudáfrica y también fue acreditado como primer embajador sudafricano en Barbados. Estuvo en la oposición política más de 40 años y fue un destacado oponente del Partido Nacional.

Fue fundador de Torch Commando, un movimiento de ex-soldados para protestar en contra de la disgregación racial en Sudáfrica. Durante décadas perteneció a la Asamblea de Representantes de la Comunidad Judía de Sudáfrica y fue uno de los más importantes líderes de la comunidad judía. Es considerado como uno de los mejores oradores del país de su época. Durante su carrera política, que abarcó 43 años, en los cuales se ganó el respeto de todo el espectro político, nunca perdió una elección.[1]​ Fue veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En 1988 recibió la Orden del Mérito al Servicio y recibió varios Doctorados Honoris Causa.

Fue descrito por la Universidad de Stellenbosch como "uno de los padres conceptuales y morales de la nueva Sudáfrica".[2]​ no solo porque fue uno de los más destacados oponentes al apartheid sino por sus ideas e iniciativas, las cuales tuvieron un destacado papel en el desarrollo del concepto de una democracia negociada en Sudáfrica, basada en los principios de libertad y justicia. Nelson Mandela, del que era amigo y al que visitó en la cárcel, lo describió como un "campeón de los pobres".[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 13. mayo 1924 – 5. febrero 2010
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“I must and will work to ensure that the new democratic South Africa has a fair chance to succeed economically as well as politically, and to try to assist in fulfilling at least a part of the dream of the oppressed and deprived when the new South Africa is born.”

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Speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C, April 1991.
As ambassador to the United States
Fuente: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-05-16/news/1991136167_1_south-africa-schwarz-frances-academy

“I make this appeal to Mr Botha: Show this statesmanship, show that at this time you will not allow our unity of purpose to overcome the real problems to be threatened.”

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During a speech to a protest in Cape Town City Hall, appealing for the Prime Minister to reconsider a bill that would heavily restrict press freedom.
The Argus, page 1-2, (1979)
Parliament (1974-1991)
Fuente: http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=2070660

“The mission must be adherence to and the advancement of the concept of a truly democratic political system and economic system which gives not only rights and opportunity but also security.”

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Cape Times (1 November 1989)
Parliament (1974-1991)
Fuente: http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=2201962

“I regard the Honourable member for Randburg as a friend. I regard him as a person who has done tremendous work as treasurer of the United Party on the Witswatersrand branch. The test of friendship comes in what you do as a man in adversity. I want to say, and I make so secret of it, that I am my brother's keeper and I will not be his executioner.”

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An extract from Schwarz's "Brother's Keeper" speech to parliament where Schwarz was expelled from the United Party after declaring support for Dick Enthoven MP and his anti-apartheid policies. (10 February 1975).
Parliament (1974-1991)

“It is important that in the process of change, existing institutions of value and means of production are not destroyed. The fabric of society, however critical one may be of its present structures, should be adopted and modified where required, but not destroyed.”

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Lecture at University of British Columbia (12 October 1976).
Parliament (1974-1991)

“My lord, one can perhaps be pardoned for saying that perhaps his (Jimmy Kantor) biggest crime, if it is a crime, is that he was a partner of Harold Wolpe, and that Harold Wolpe was his brother-in-law.”

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Rivonia Trial

“Morality is cheap when someone else is paying.”

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The Herald Times (1988) http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=1030957.
Sanctions and disinvestment from South Africa

“I have an obligation to the 37 million people in South Africa to ensure their well-being. But the road from slavery to the promised land is a rough one.”

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During a Speech to the Philadelphia World Affairs Council, 12 June 1991.
As ambassador to the United States
Fuente: http://articles.philly.com/1991-06-13/news/25788736_1_group-areas-act-sanctions-africa-blacks

“Whenever I draw up economic policy I look at it from the point of view of the person who has nothing; I look at it from the point of view of my farther who tried to get a job but could not.”

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Sunday Times (18 November 1990).
Parliament (1974-1991)
Fuente: http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=2056613

“I believe people are not free if all they can do is cast a vote every five years to decide who should govern them. What does it mean to a man in a shack built by himself with no amenities and not knowing where his next meal is coming from, to vote? An election is about power. It is relevant to freedom only if those elected govern efficiently, honestly and carry out the electoral promises made.”

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The Mercury (17 November 2009).
Final speech

“Laws alone is not enough to ensure that freedom is safeguarded. What is required is a sprit of freedom among the people concerned. There must be an atmosphere of respect, a feeling of belonging together, an atmosphere of harmony with fellow beings.”

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Herald Times, (4 November 1979)
Parliament (1974-1991)
Fuente: http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=1552889

“The National Party does not care about people, it only cares about power.”

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Rand Daily Mail, (2 February 1981)
Parliament (1974-1991)
Fuente: http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=2000874

“I said, 'Down with apartheid' before some of them [demonstrators] were born. I was supporting the dismantling of apartheid when America was standing on the sidelines and only a few people knew what apartheid was about.”

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Responding to demonstrations against his presence while giving a speech at St. Frances Academy fund-raising dinner, 20 May 1991.
As ambassador to the United States
Fuente: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-05-21/news/1991141043_1_schwarz-ambassador-apartheid

“I wish my country were like I wanted it to be, but as it is not, I hope it will one day get to this way of living.”

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The Mercury (17 November 2009).
Final speech

“Freedom is incomplete if it is exercised in poverty.”

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Harry Schwarz in 'Poverty Corrodes Freedom' (1993).
Parliament (1974-1991)

“My Lord, it is difficult to reply in a restrained fashion. My learned friend must not use words such as 'Communist' lightly, when he refers to Kantor. Kantor is not a Communist. My learned friend has used the tactics of McCarthyism in an endeavour to smear him. I think, with respect, my learned friend is allowing himself to run away with facts that are not there. His complaint in count one is not that they found files with evidence. Oh not, he says that we found files with nothing in them. Not in Kantor's office, but in the office of Wolpe. Then my learned friend that the practice had been ruined and liquidated Knator's practice, my lord, it is not Kantor. It is not Kantor! Why I say it is so difficult to be restrained, is that my learned friend has thrown in everything hat concerns every accused in this case, and says 'that is why I don't want Kantor to get bail'.”

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Jimmy Kantor in 'A healthy grave' (1967).
Rivonia Trial

“If we are going to have greater unemployment, if we are going to have more unrest, the chances of a negotiated settlement will be less and in a revolutionary situation the chances of a truly free democratic society emerging are reduced.”

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The Herald Times (1988) http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=1030957.
Sanctions and disinvestment from South Africa