Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot ent... -Nelson Mandela

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Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Nelson Mandela , Statesman
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It always seems impossible until it's done....
Forget the past....
I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauf...
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Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the polic...
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...
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common sufferin...
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. Y...
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace....

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....