Maxioms by Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until it's done.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much read more
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.
I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and read more
I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.
I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
It always seems impossible until its done.
It always seems impossible until its done.
