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" From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort. "

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" The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world. "

Nelson Mandela

World

Effort

Africa

" I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. "

" On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. "

" Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. "

" It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. "

" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

" Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. "

" Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. "

" Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary. "

" For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. "

" When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. "

Nelson Mandela

Nobody

Lawyer

" I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do. "

Nelson Mandela

Wake Up

" Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. "

" I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. "

" Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past. "

" Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose. "

" I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President. "

Nelson Mandela

Life

Will

" As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language. "

" The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. "

" I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days. "

" Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. "

" I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world. "

" I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. "

" If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. "

" You know, you can only lead them from behind. "

" If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. "

" There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. "

" I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot. "

" Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. "