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" Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. "
Nelson Mandela
Men
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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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" There is no such thing as part freedom. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. "
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" Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. "
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" I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. "
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" 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. "
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" It always seems impossible until it's done. "
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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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Because
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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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" There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people. "
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" I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east. "
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Thinking
" In my country we go to prison first and then become President. "
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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 are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. "
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Society
Development
Men
" Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. "
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Seem
People
Peace
" To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. "
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People
Challenge
Rights
" Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. "
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Mistake
I Can
Admit
" 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. "
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Chains
Live
Way
" Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. "
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" 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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" I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. "
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Time
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" I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. "
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Africa
Itself
" I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life. "
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" I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect. "
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Through
White
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Success
Will
" 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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