Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.


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The international community ... also made an important contribution to this struggle, ... not least ...
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We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some polit...
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We owe this to the countless men, women and children across generations who carried this anthem in t...
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Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books,
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said Nic Buchanan, the creator of the comic books. ''They don't know their own history. We celebrate...
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But I'd like to declare that, when we have differed on an issue, at the end of that my respect for h...
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A visit to this country by President Clinton is the high water mark.
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He had the courage to admit that a terrible wrong had been done to our country and people through th...
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be ...
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During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought aga...
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The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-viol...
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There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measur...
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society.
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I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the ...
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Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
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The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight. That...
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Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been co...
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I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I w...
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Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of ...
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Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
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It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have cons...
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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
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Then we'd get behind them and drive them up a valley. Then we'd stab a pig, it would cry, and then w...
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I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hop...
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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Today we stand at the grave of one of the greatest among that generation of great freedom fighters.
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That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because th...
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There is no such thing as part freedom
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The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor,...
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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 f...
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The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye co...
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True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.
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Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
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Courage is not a lack of fear, but instead is continuing to push forward in spite of it!
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I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of bei...
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As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my ...
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