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.

Nelson Mandela

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Topic

Activism Anti-colonialism Anti-imperialism Equality

Speaker

Nelson Mandela

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Anti-apartheid activist National leader Activist Politician

From

South Africa Africa

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It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

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Topic
Nature of evil Evil The Holocaust

Author

Hannah Arendt
Source
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil The New Yorker
Medium
Essay Magazine
Genre
Political literature Historical literature
Language
English
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
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Arendt, Hanna. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Viking Press, 1963. Originally published by The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 1963.

Another quote about Equality

When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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Topic
Freedom Equality
Speaker
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source
I Have a Dream
Medium
Speech
Statement Type
Prophecies and predictions
Language
English
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
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Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.