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«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 li»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
African, Africans, black people, black person, dedicated, democratic, domination, fought, The Domination
«Of all the observations I have made on the strike, none has brought forth so much heat and emotion as the stress and emphasis we put on non- violence. Our most loyal supporters, whose courage and devotion has never been doubted, unanimously and stren»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Courage,
Nonviolence
| Keywords:
devotion, doubted, emphasis, loyal, observations, supporter, supporters, unanimously
«I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination,
Life,
Opinions,
Racism
| Keywords:
African, assurance, at ease, detest, discrimination, entitled, fellow feeling, hold in, inferior, intensely, manifestations, racial, racial discrimination, set up, South, South African, South Africans, surrounds, violently, white man
«The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government violence. Refusal to resort to force has been interpreted by the government as an invitat»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Government,
Peace,
Violence
| Keywords:
green light, interpreted, non violent, peacefulness, policies, refusal, resort, resort to
«I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Unity
| Keywords:
Africa, combine, Continent, deserts, forests, whereby, wildernesses
«There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slave»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Democracy,
Revolution,
Society
| Keywords:
contained, epoch, epochs, insecure, measure up, primitive, revolutionary, Seeds, The Seeds
«A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
«We all felt on top of the world. It was a justification for the sacrifices which had been made by our people since the arrival of whites in this country in 1652.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
arrival, arrivals, justification, sacrifices, The Arrival, whites
«It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Government,
Violence
| Keywords:
indefensible, picket, picketing, political organization, repudiate, repudiated, repudiates, Repudiating
«Everything before then was written off as savagery or barbarism. Any story that involved heroism was about white people,»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
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