I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

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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 is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

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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.

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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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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

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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 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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