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"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."
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"In order to fulfil our life mission we also need to develop perseverance."
"Life is a personal race. Run the race of life with all endurance."
"Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory."
"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."
"A man going straight towards his goals overcomes difficulties and obstacles in his paths, and turns them into benefits."
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
"The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance."
"Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest."
"You can strive in life with courage, faith and hope."
"One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity."
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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."
"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
"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 harmony 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."
"Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all."
"At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said."
"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 which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
"The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle."
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