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Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom Quotes: It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.
         

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.


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When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.



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Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.



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I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home.



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