How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself…

Quote by Nelson Mandela

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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for...

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for...

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have...

It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have...

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead...

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead...

The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent...

The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent...

In my country we go to prison first and then become President .

In my country we go to prison first and then become President .

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which...

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which...

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when...

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when...

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live...

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live...

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly...

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly...

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have...

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have...

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time...

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time...

I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but...

I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but...

It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy...

It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy...

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for...

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for...

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I...

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I...

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves...

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves...

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give...

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give...

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty,...

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty,...