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I Hate Racial Discrimination Most Intensely And All Its Manifestations. I Have Fought All My Life; I Fight Now, And Will Do So Until The End Of My Days. Even Although I Now Happen To Be Tried By One, Whose Opinion I Hold In High Esteem, I Detest Most Violently The Set-up That Surrounds Me Here. It Makes Me Feel That I Am A Black Man In A White Man's Court. This Should Not Be I Should Feel Perfectly At Ease And At Home With The Assurance That I Am Being Tried By A Fellow South African, Who Does Not Regard Me As An Inferior, Entitled To A Special Type Of Justice.

-Nelson Mandela

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I Hate Racial Discrimination

Nelson Mandela

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I Hate Racial Discrimination Most Intensely And All Its Manifestations. I Have Fought All My Life; I Fight Now, And Will Do So Until The End Of My Days. Even Although I Now Happen To Be Tried By One, Whose Opinion I Hold In High Esteem, I Detest Most Violently The Set-up That Surrounds Me Here. It Makes Me Feel That I Am A Black Man In A White Man's Court. This Should Not Be I Should Feel Perfectly At Ease And At Home With The Assurance That I Am Being Tried By A Fellow South African, Who Does Not Regard Me As An Inferior, Entitled To A Special Type Of Justice.

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We Speak Here Of The Challenge Of The Dichotomies Of War And Peace, Violence And Non-violence, Racism And Human Dignity, Oppression And Repression And Liberty And Human Rights, Poverty And Freedom From Want.

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Let It Never Be Said By Future Generations That Indifference, Cynicism Or Selfishness Made Us Fail To Live Up To The Ideals Of Humanism Which The Nobel Peace Prize Encapsulates. Let The Strivings Of Us All, Prove Martin Luther King Jr. To Have Been Correct, When He Said That Humanity Can No Longer Be Tragically Bound To The Starless Midnight Of Racism And War.

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I Stand Here Before You Not As A Prophet, But As A Humble Servant Of You, The People.

I Found Solitary Confinement The Most Forbidding Aspect Of Prison Life. There Is No End And No Beginning; There Is Only One's Mind, Which Can Begin To Play Tricks. Was That A Dream Or Did It Really Happen? One Begins To Question Everything.

I Love Playing And Chatting With Children...feed Ing And Putting Them To Bed With A Little Story, And Being Away From The Family Has Troubled Me Throughout My...life.

The United States Of America Is A Threat To World Peace.

We Recall The Joy And Excitement Of A Nation That Had Found Itself, The Collective Relief That We Had Stepped Out Of Our Restrictive Past, And The Expectant Air Of Walking Into A Brighter Future.

If The Anc Does To You What The Apartheid Government Did To You, Then You Must Do To The Anc What You Did To The Apartheid Government.

It's Not Our Weaknesses That Frighten Us. It's Our Strengths.

I Am Influenced More Than Ever Before By The Conviction That Social Equality Is The Only Basis Of Human Happiness.

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.

Whose Life Testifies To The Truth That There Is No Shame In Being Oppressed: Those Who Should Be Ashamed Are They Who Oppress Others.

It Is Our Duty To Give Support To The Brother Leader ... Especially In Regards To The Sanctions Which Are Not Hitting Just Him, They Are Hitting The Ordinary Masses Of The People ... Our African Brothers And Sisters.

When We Read We Are Able To Travel To Many Places, Meet Many People And Understand The World.

It Is Also The Fate Of Leadership To Be Misunderstood. It Is A Grave Error For Any Leader To Be Oversensitive In The Face Of Criticism, To Conduct Discussions As If He Or She Is A Schoolmaster Talking To Less Informed And Inexperienced Learners.

Sometimes, I Feel Like One Who Is On The Sidelines, Who Has Missed Life Itself.

On The The Aids Epidemic: This Is A War. It Has Killed More People Than Has Been The Case In All Previous Wars And In All Previous Natural Disasters ... We Must Not Continue To Be Debating, To Be Arguing, When People Are Dying.

There Is Nothing Like Returning To A Place That Remains Unchanged To Find The Ways In Which You Yourself Have Altered.

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