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Nya citat 2005-08-04
The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future.
Nelson Mandela
There was a time when I reacted with revulsion against the whole system of being gay.
Nelson Mandela
Even with all their bombers and tanks, they must have sensed they were on the wrong side of history.
Nelson Mandela, on the National Party in South Africa
If I have any moral authority - and I say if - moral authority doesn't solve world problems.
Nelson Mandela
I'm an ordinary person, I have made serious mistakes, I have serious weaknesses.
Nelson Mandela
For many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us and work with us.
Nelson Mandela, 1964
Racism must be consciously combated and not discreetly tolerated.
Nelson Mandela
As long as whites think in terms of group rights they are talking the language of apartheid.
Nelson Mandela, 1994
When a government seeks to suppress a peaceful demonstration of an unarmed people by mobilizing the entire reserves of the state, military and police, it concedes powerful mass support for such a demonstration.
Nelson Mandela, in 1961 when he was living in hiding, IS referred to as the Black Pimpernel in the South African press
The more I think about it, it's the difference between manslaughter and murder. It's the intent. The intent was not to poison black America but to raise money for the Contras, and they [the CIA] didn't really care what it came from. If it involved selling drugs in black communities, we11, this was the price of admission.
Gary Webb
Harlem symbolizes the strength and beauty in resistance and you have taught us that out of resistance to injustice comes renaissance, renewal and rebirth.
Nelson Mandela
Imperialism means the denial of political and economic rights and the perpetual subjugation of people by a foreign power.
Nelson Mandela
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.
Nelson Mandela
In my 30-year history in the Drug Enforcement Administratim and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA.
Dennis Dayle, former chief of an elite DEA enforcement unit
Struggle that does not strengthen organization can lead to a blind alley.
Nelson Mandela
Above all, the liberation movement asserted that the people would most readily develop consciousness of their proud being, of their equality with everyone else, of their capacity to make history.
Nelson Mandela
An organization can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress.
Nelson Mandela
There was substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the war zones on the part of individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots, mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters throughout the region ... U.S. officials involved in Central America failed to address the drug issue for fear of jeopardizing the war efforts against Nicaragua ... In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter ... Senior U.S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras' funding problems.
The Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations (the Kerry Committee), 1989
All under the protective umbrella of the United States Government.
Celerino Castillo, former DEA officer, on how Contra planes loaded with cocaine could land with impunity in the United States, and then returned laden with cash to finance the war
[Manuel Noriega] was providing valuable support for our policies in Central America, especially Nicaragua
William Casey, CIA director, on why he didn't denounce Noriega for his relationship with drug traffickers
To some, talking about peace is a sign of cowardice - but in fact it is a sign of strength.
Nelson Mandela
Just as many whites have killed just as many blacks.
Nelson Mandela, 1990, asked about deaths of white civilians in ANC attacks
The lack of human dignity experienced by Africans is the direct result of the policy of white supremacy.
Nelson Mandela
The peoples of resurgent Africa are perfectly capable of deciding upon their own future form of government and discovering and themselves dealing with any dangers which might arise.
Nelson Mandela
We have turned Mandela over to the South ican security branch. We gave them every detail, what he would be wearing, the time of day, just where he would be. They have picked him up. It is one of our greatest coups.
Paul Eckel, senior CIA operative, just hours after the arrest of Nelson Mandela in 1962, according to an unidentified, retired US intelligence officer speaking out in the Atlanta Journal 1990
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