"If you are negotiating you must do..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.
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“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.”
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
“Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.”
More on Negotiation
“Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.”
“Necessity never made a good bargain.”
“I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake. . . . We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.”