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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
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"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."

"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."

"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."

"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together."

"I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy."

"They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none."

"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."

"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."
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"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

"Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all."

"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."

"In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine."

"I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days."

"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."

"It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism."
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