"It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth â€“ to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people."

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Source : "Graça Machel on Mandela: 'I learned to separate the man from the myth'" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

Graca Machel

#Fighting Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.”
“Good police officers are ugly.”
“Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in his heart, when he calls on the name of Jesus.”
“I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”
“I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world”
“Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.”
“There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.”

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.
“I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.”

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