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- We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we…
- There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined action…
- Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a…
- Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve…
- 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…
- Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into…
- For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity…
- People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity…
- We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that…
- We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past,…
- Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to…
- Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but…
- 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.
- What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts,
- When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics,…
- Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
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