Nelson Mandela
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Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?
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