"Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people."
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"Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs."
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"I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife."
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"Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings."
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"Great anger and violence can never build a nation."
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"The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad."
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"The best weapon is to sit down and talk."
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"One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history."
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"In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the results. Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed."
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"No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education."
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"Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people."
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"To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger."
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"As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance."
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"The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being."
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"Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless."
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"No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea."
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"A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars."
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"Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems."
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"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
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"We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success."
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