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" Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? "

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "

" Forget the past. "

" 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. "

" I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "