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

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" A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. "

" Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all. "

" I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. "

" As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language. "

" 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. "

" Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. "

" I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders. "

" 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. "

" Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. "

" Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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" 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. "

" Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose. "

" If you are poor, you are not likely to live long. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "