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" If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. "
Nelson Mandela
World
America
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" By ancestry, I was born to rule. "
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" Forget the past. "
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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. "
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" I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. "
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" I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world. "
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" Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. "
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" If you are poor, you are not likely to live long. "
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" As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. "
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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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" Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. "
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People
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" 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. "
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Life
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" I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east. "
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" I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color. "
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" I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. "
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" I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. "
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System
Tie
" The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. "
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Superior
Culture
Ideas
" There is no such thing as part freedom. "
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Part
Thing
Freedom
" A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. "
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Wisdom
Always
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" We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. "
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" Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. "
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" I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. "
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Whether
Because
Black
" At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said. "
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Experience
Done
" In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains. "
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Blood
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Dying
" I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. "
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Man
" Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country. "
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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. "
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" When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. "
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Foolish
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" After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. "
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Only
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" I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. "
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" No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. "
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