"It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands."
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"There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill."
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"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."
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"Racism is a blight on the human conscience"
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"Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery."
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"There is no such thing as part freedom."
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"Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer."
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"Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence."
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"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."
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"While poverty persists, there is no true freedom."
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"There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous."
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"If you are poor, you are not likely to live long."
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"I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison."
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"Quitting is leading too."
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"Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind."
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"It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea."
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"I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man."
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"Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes"
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"Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose."
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"When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free."
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