"The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all."
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"Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness"
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"Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake."
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"You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution."
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"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."
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"Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry."
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"One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others."
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"A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom."
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"It's in your hands to make the world a better place."
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"I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself."
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"My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit."
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"No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence."
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"I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances."
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"Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers."
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"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination."
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"We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others."
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"When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them."
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"A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged."
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"The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised."
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"I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind."
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