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" There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty. "

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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. "

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

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

" Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. "

" If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. "

" To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. "

" Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. "

" 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. "

" At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. "

" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

" 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. "

" Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. "

" 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. "

" Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla. "

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

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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. "

" When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. "

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

" 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. "

" You know, you can only lead them from behind. "

" After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person. "

" 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? "

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

" We can't afford to be killing one another. "

" 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. "