"The death sentence is a barbaric act."
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"You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task."
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"The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas."
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"The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists."
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"The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world."
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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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"The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots"
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"There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!"
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"In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations."
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"Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status."
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"Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics."
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"I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope."
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"I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it."
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"When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery."
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"The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole."
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"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up."
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"I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him."
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"It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed."
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"Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us."
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"Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person."
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