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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. "
Nelson Mandela
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" 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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" Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. "
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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. "
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" There is no such thing as part freedom. "
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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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" 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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" My son has died of AIDS. "
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" 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. "
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" I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President. "
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" Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. "
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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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" 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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" If you are poor, you are not likely to live long. "
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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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" It always seems impossible until it's done. "
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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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" I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. "
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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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" 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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" Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. "
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" I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders. "
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" I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do. "
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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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" A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. "
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" I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot. "
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" 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. "
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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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" To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. "
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