"I cannot and will not give any..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
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“I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.”
“If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.”
“I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.”
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“Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.”
“We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.”
“Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.”
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“The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.”
“From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.”
“We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.”