Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
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Reportedly to Cape Town journalists in February 1987, though later denied. As quoted by Andrew Donaldson, Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.Pieter Willem Botha
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I knew what he was going to say, because we had all seen the speech. Everybody had made comments about it. And I knew he was going to say, in effect, "Hang me if you dare to, Mr. Judge." But only when he said it... It was terribly moving. Nobody said anything. Even the judge didn't know what to say. I knew it was a moment of history. He emerged then as a great leader. ... Nelson Mandela did become the symbol of the struggle for liberation in South Africa. People could identify with Nelson Mandela: Nelson Mandela the lawyer, Nelson Mandela the hero, Nelson Mandela the handsome man. But it was the response to his Rivonia Trial speech, called throughout the world the 'I am prepared to die' speech, which somersaulted him — and the African National Congress, and the need to put an end to apartheid — into the world's consciousness.
Nelson Mandela
When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength...
Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing.Mengistu Haile Mariam
I believe that Mugabe was ... driven into a permanent rage by the adulation heaped internationally on Nelson Mandela, an accolade of praise and recognition that he felt was more properly due to himself. And, harboring this grievance, he decided to denude his own unhappy country of anything that might remind anybody of Mandela's legacy.
Robert Mugabe
It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.
Rio Ferdinand
I remember the day when Nelson Mandela, the South African leader came to visit him and called him 'my leader.'
Ali Khamenei
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