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Long Walk To Freedom Quotes

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 from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

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 from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Nelson Mandela
Taken, Humanity, Long Walk To Freedom
Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

Nelson Mandela
Authority, Long Walk To Freedom, Balanced
Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.250, Hachette UK

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

Nelson Mandela
Long Walk To Freedom, Wells, Oppressed
Twitter post from Jul 25, 2016

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Nelson Mandela
Prison, Missions, Long Walk To Freedom
"Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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