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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

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Long Walk to Freedom

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Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Little, Brown and Company, 1994, pt. 11.

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Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

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Mandela, Nelson. Statement declining offer of freedom. Presented by Zindzi Mandela. 10 Feb. 1985, Jabulani Stadium, Soweto, South Africa, Africa.

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To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

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True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

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Mandela, Nelson. 7 Jan. 1996. Speech.

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I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken away from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

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Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud...Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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Mandela, Nelson. "Inaugural Address." 10 May 1994, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa, Africa.

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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 live together in har¬ mony 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.