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

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" I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. "

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" Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. "

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" There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. "

" There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way. "

" 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. "

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