"I always knew that someday I would..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
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“The best weapon is to sit down and talk.”
“I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.”
“I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.”
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“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”
“While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.”
“Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.”
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“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”
“Sail on silver girlSail on byYour time has come to shineAll your dreams are on their waySee how they shineOh, if you need a friendI'm sailing right behind.”
“So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.”