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The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defense of our people, our


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NELSON MANDELA I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society.
NELSON MANDELA I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the ...
NELSON MANDELA Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
NELSON MANDELA Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been co...
NELSON MANDELA I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I w...
NELSON MANDELA Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of ...
NELSON MANDELA Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
NELSON MANDELA It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have cons...
NELSON MANDELA May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
NELSON MANDELA Then we'd get behind them and drive them up a valley. Then we'd stab a pig, it would cry, and then w...
NELSON MANDELA I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hop...
NELSON MANDELA As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
NELSON MANDELA Today we stand at the grave of one of the greatest among that generation of great freedom fighters.
NELSON MANDELA That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because th...
NELSON MANDELA There is no such thing as part freedom
NELSON MANDELA The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor,...
NELSON MANDELA When I think about the past, the types of things they did, I feel angry, but then again that is my f...
NELSON MANDELA The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye co...
NELSON MANDELA True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.
NELSON MANDELA Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
NELSON MANDELA Courage is not a lack of fear, but instead is continuing to push forward in spite of it!
NELSON MANDELA I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of bei...
NELSON MANDELA As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my ...
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