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It Can Be Said That There Are Four Basic And Primary Things That The Mass Of People In A Society Wish For: To Live In A Safe Environment, To Be Able To Work And Provide For Themselves, To Have Access To Good Public Health And To Have Sound Educational Opportunities For Their Children.

-Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela

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It Can Be Said That There Are Four Basic And Primary Things That The Mass Of People In A Society Wish For: To Live In A Safe Environment, To Be Able To Work And Provide For Themselves, To Have Access To Good Public Health And To Have Sound Educational Opportunities For Their Children.

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I Realized That They Could Take Everything From Me Except My Mind And My Heart. They Could Not Take Those Things. Those Things I Still Had Control Over. And I Decided Not To Give Them Away.

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Justice For All

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The Authorities Liked To Say That We Received A Balanced Diet; It Was Indeed Balanced - Between The Unpalatable And The Inedible.

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You Have A Limited Time To Stay On Earth. You Must Try To Use That Period For The Purpose Of Transforming Your Country Into What You Desire It To Be: A Democratic, Non-racial, Non-sexist Country. And That Is A Great Task.

I Do Not Deny That I Planned Sabotage. I Did Not Plan It In A Spirit Of Recklessness Nor Because I Have Any Love Of Violence. I Planned It As A Result Of A Calm And Sober Assessment Of The Political Situation That Had Arisen After Many Years Of Tyranny, Exploitation And Oppression Of My People By The Whites.

In My Younger Days, I Was Arrogant - Jail Helped Me To Get Rid Of It. I Did Nothing But Make Enemies Because Of My Arrogance.

There Are Leaders Who Know That However Furious The Debate, There Are Good Men And Women In All Population Groups - Amongst Blacks, Amongst Whites, And Amongst Afrikaans And English Speaking People.

I Dream Of Our Vast Deserts, Of Our Forests, Of All Our Great Wildernesses. We Must Never Forget That It Is Our Duty To Protect This Environment.

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