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I Shall Stick To Our Vow: Never, Never Under Any Circumstances, To Say Anything Unbecoming Of The Other...the Trouble, Of Course, Is That Most Successful Men Are Prone To Some Form Of Vanity. There Comes A Stage In Their Lives When They Consider It Permissible To Be Egotistic And To Brag To The Public At Large About Their Unique Achievements.

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I Shall Stick To Our Vow: Never, Never Under Any Circumstances, To Say Anything Unbecoming Of The Other...the Trouble, Of Course, Is That Most Successful Men Are Prone To Some Form Of Vanity. There Comes A Stage In Their Lives When They Consider It Permissible To Be Egotistic And To Brag To The Public At Large About Their Unique Achievements.

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When I Walked Out Of Prison, That Was My Mission, To Liberate The Oppressed And The Oppressor Both.

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The Question Of Education Has Nothing To Do With The Question Of The Vote. On Numerous Occasions It Has Been Proved In History That People Can Enjoy The Vote Even If They Have No Education.

Sports Have The Power To Change The World. It Has The Power To Inspire, The Power To Unite People In A Way That Little Else Does. It Speaks To Youth In A Language They Understand. Sports Can Create Hope, Where There Was Once Only Despair. It Is More Powerful Than Governments In Breaking Down Racial Barriers. It Laughs In The Face Of All Types Of Discrimination. Sports Is The Game Of Lovers.

Africans Require, Want, The Franchise On The Basis Of One Man One Vote. They Want Political Independence.

I Regard It As A Duty Which I Owed, Not Just To My People, But Also To My Profession, To The Practice Of Law, And To The Justice For All Mankind, To Cry Out Against This Discrimination Which Is Essentially Unjust And Opposed To The Whole Basis Of The Attitude Towards Justice Which Is Part Of The Tradition Of Legal Training In This Country. I Believed That In Taking Up A Stand Against This Injustice I Was Upholding The Dignity Of What Should Be An Honorable Profession.

Justice For All

I Have Been Influenced In My Thinking By Both West And East.

Isimangaliso Must Be The Only Place On The Globe Where The Oldest Land Mammal (rhinoceros) And The World Biggest Terrestrial Mammal (elephant) Share An Ecosystem With The World's Oldest Fish (coelacanth) And The World's Biggest Marine Mammal (whale)

Freedom Can Never Be Taken For Granted. Each Generation Must Safeguard It And Extend It. Your Parents And Elders Sacrificed Much So That You Should Have Freedom Without Suffering What They Did. Use This Precious Right To Ensure That The Darkness Of The Past Never Returns.

The March To Freedom Is Irreversible.

There Is Nothing To Popularize A Person. Only Humility, Which Is The Ability To Remain In The Background And To Put Others In The Front Light.

What He Means By This Is That Instead Of Saying You'll "try", You Need To "do". And As We Let Our Light Shine, We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same. As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others.

I Am Convinced That Floods Of Personal Disaster Can Never Drown A Determined Revolutionary Nor Can The Cumulus Of Misery That Accompanies Tragedy Suffocate Him.

Che Guevara's Life Is An Inspiration For Every Human Being Who Loves Freedom. We Will Always Honor His Memory.

I Was Able To Change My Life By Knowing That If Somebody Does Something Good For You, You Have To Respond.

Where You Stand Depends On Where You Sit.

I Am Sure That If Somebody Is Giving A Sum To Charity, He Or She Should Be Encouraged To Do So By The Authorities Because The Spirit In Which We Encourage People To Give Has Permeated Our Society.

The Time For The Healing Of The Wounds Has Come. The Moment To Bridge The Chasms That Divide Us Has Come. The Time To Build Is Upon Us.

The Commonwealth Makes The World Safe For Diversity

The First Election In Which All South Africans Took Part Was In April, 1994. There Were Long Queues [lines] Of Employers And Employees, Black And White. In The Sense Of Africans, Coloreds And Indians - When I Talk About Blacks, I Mean Those Three. Blacks And Whites Mingled To Vote Without Any Hitches. Many People Would Have Expected A Great Deal Of Tension, Clashes And Violence, But It Did Not Occur.

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