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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.

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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.

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Greatest Treasure

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Finding Strength

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I Had No Epiphany, No Singular Revelation, No Moment Of Truth, But A Steady Accumulation Of A Thousand Slights, A Thousand Indignities And A Thousand Unremembered Moments Produced In Me An Anger, A Rebelliousness, A Desire To Fight The System That Imprisoned My People. There Was No Particular Day On Which I Said, Henceforth I Will Devote Myself To The Liberation Of My People; Instead, I Simply Found Myself Doing So, And Could Not Do Otherwise.

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The Brave Man Is Not The One Who Has No Fears, He Is The One Who Triumphs Over His Fears.

Your Victory Has Demonstrated That No Person Anywhere In The World Should Not Dare To Dream Of Wanting To Change The World For A Better Place.

Never, Never And Never Again Shall It Be That This Beautiful Land Will Again Experience The Oppression Of One By Another.

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The Process Of Illusion & Disillusionment Is Part Of Life And Goes On Endlessly.

Whenever I Am With Energetic Young People, I Feel Like A Recharged Battery.

One Of The Things That Made Me Long To Be Back In Prison Was That I Had So Little Opportunity For Reading, Thinking And Quiet Reflection After My Release. I Intend, Amongst Other Things, To Give Myself Much More Opportunity For Such Reading And Reflection.

Part Of Building A New Nation Means Building A Spirit Of Tolerance, Love And Respect Amongst The People Of This Country.

South Africa Is The Most Beautiful Place On Earth. Admittedly, I Am Biased But When You Combine The Natural Beauty... And The Fact That The Region Is A Haven For Africa's Most Splendid Wildlife... Then I Think That We Have Been Blessed With A Truly Wonderful Land.

You Negotiate In Bad Faith If You Do Not Forgive Your Adversary.

As Long As Outmoded Ways Of Thinking Prevent Women From Making A Meaningful Contribution To Society, Progress Will Be Slow. As Long As The Nation Refuses To Acknowledge The Equal Role Of More Than Half Of Itself, It Is Doomed To Failure.

Disasters Will Always Come And Go, Leaving Their Victims Either Completely Broken Or Steeled And Seasoned And Better Able To Face The Next Crop Of Challenges That May Occur.

We Cannot Blame Other People For Our Troubles. We Are Not Victims Of The Influx Of Foreign People Into South Africa. We Must Remember That It Was Mainly Due To The Aggressive And Hostile Policies Of The Apartheid Regime That The Economic Development Of Our Neighbours Was Undermined.

It Is Always Impossible Until It Is Done.

I Am The Captain Of My Soul.

The Call Now Is For Each Of Us To Ask Ourselves: Are We Doing All We Can To Help Build The Country Of Our Dreams?

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Long Walk To Freedom

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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.

We Must Work Together To Ensure The Equitable Distribution Of Wealth, Opportunity And Power In Our Society.

Working Together

Distribution Of Wealth

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.

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As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others.

In Africa There Is A Concept Known As 'ubuntu' - The Profound Sense That We Are Human Only Through The Humanity Of Others; That If We Are To Accomplish Anything In This World It Will In Equal Measure Be Due To The Work And Achievement Of Others.

Men Come And Men Go, I Have Come And I Will Go When My Time Comes

It Is Most Unusual To Return To A Place That Has Changed In Ways You Yourself Have Altered.

I Never Think Of The Time I Have Lost. I Just Carry Out A Programme Because It's There. It's Mapped Out For Me.

The World Is Truly Round And Seems To Start And End With Those We Love.

I Have Never Cared Very Much For Personal Prizes. A Person Does Not Become A Freedom Fighter In The Hope Of Winning Awards.

For Me, Survival Is The Ability To Cope With Difficulties, With Circumstances, And To Overcome Them.

I Detest Racialism, Because I Regard It As A Barbaric Thing, Whether It Comes From A Black Man Or A White Man.

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