One of the few advantages of prison life is that one has time to read. This opened our minds and forced us to re-examine some of our views.
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When I think about the past, the types of things they did, I feel angry, but then again that is my feeling. The brain always dominates, says, as I have pointed out, you have a limited time to stay on Earth.Nelson Mandela
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I told the relatives that he would go to a country trusted by Britain and the United States to serve his full sentence, and the length of the sentence would be determined by the Scottish authorities,
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Noting that there are nearly 40 million children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS, ... Nothing can shake me more than sight of these innocent young children suffering physically, socially and emotionally.
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Paul Drury, a consultant for conservation group English Heritage, which also opposes the mayor's plan, has said that placing an informal, small-scale statue ... would be a major and awkward change in the narrative of the square.
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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.
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