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- Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with…
- It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of…
- Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you…
- I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days.…
- I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance…
- I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.
- I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still…
- No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an…
- I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the…
- I want to find God, and because I want to find God, I have to find God along with other people. I don't believe I…
- I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.
- That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no…
- I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.
- It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic young people ...…
- For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
- I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled…
- During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans,…
- I have spent more than 20 years in prison, then on one night I decided to surrender by signing all the terms and conditions of…
- For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.
- The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
- I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.
- 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…
- If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your…
- Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England,…
- That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale