"Hating clouds the mind. It gets in..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is not for them to adapt to the dominant and dominating world of the so-called non-disabled. It is for us to adapt our understanding of a common humanity; to learn of the richness of how human life is diverse; to recognize the presence of disability in our human midst as an enrichment of our diversity.”

“As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.”

“Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.”

“Hate can pardon more than love.”

“To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.”

“It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.”

“If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”

“The brain can be developed just the same as the musclescan be developed, if on will only take the pains to trainthe mind to think.”

“It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.”