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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

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I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

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I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

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Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

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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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Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

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I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, e

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Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

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There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

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People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress o

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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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There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

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Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

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Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

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Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

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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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