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" 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. "

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" There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. "

" By ancestry, I was born to rule. "

" 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. "

" We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. "

" If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. "

" In my country we go to prison first and then become President. "

" Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. "

" It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. "

" There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. "

" People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society. "

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

" There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. "

" I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. "

" Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. "

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" 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 cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders. "

" Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul. "

" 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. "

" A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. "

" Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. "

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

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

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

" Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. "

" I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east. "

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

" I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car. "

" A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. "

" 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. "