"No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective."
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"We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute."
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"Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank."
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"I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything."
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"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."
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"I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others."
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"If you want to change the world, help the women."
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"There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'"
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"Times change, we need to change as well."
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"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended."
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"Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations"
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"I approach every problem with optimism."
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"There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way."
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"I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come."
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"Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself."
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"No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future."
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"I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote."
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"I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides."
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"Education is the great engine to personal development."
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"An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress"
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