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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
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I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
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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.
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I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
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I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
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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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We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
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Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
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Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
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I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
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There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
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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.
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
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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.
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Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.