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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

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The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

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For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?

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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

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We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Politician

Born: October 27th, 1917

Died: April 24th, 1993

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