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" In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle. "

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

" Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. "

" 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. "

" Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. "

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

" 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. "

" I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife. "

" As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. "

" I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. "

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

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" I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. "

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