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" Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. "
Nelson Mandela
Good
Nonviolence
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" In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Death
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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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" Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past. "
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" Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. "
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Training
Discipline
Competition
" If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. "
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America
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" If you are poor, you are not likely to live long. "
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Live
Likely
" I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders. "
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Borders
Within
Israel
" 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. "
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" Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have. "
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Life
Challenge
Enjoy
" By ancestry, I was born to rule. "
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Ancestry
I Was Born
Born
" We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. "
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Our
Gender
Suffering
" 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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People
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" Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. "
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Beautiful
Land
History
" 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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Time
Wife
Retire
" I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. "
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Socialism
System
Tie
" The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. "
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Made
Long
Decisions
" There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. "
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Small
Life
Motivational
" Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. "
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I Can
Admit
" If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. "
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Partner
Enemy
You
" Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. "
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Want
Independence
Political
" 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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" 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? "
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" Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. "
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Who
" There is no such thing as part freedom. "
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Thing
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" Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. "
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