Long Walk To Freedom quotes
4 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity."
"I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed."
"The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible."
"When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both."
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