„It was in service of this long walk towards freedom and justice and equal opportunity that Nelson Mandela devoted his life.“

— Barack Obama

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„The questions we face today -- how to promote equality and justice; how to uphold freedom and human rights; how to end conflict and sectarian war -- these things do not have easy answers. But there were no easy answers in front of that child born in World War I. Nelson Mandela reminds us that it always seems impossible until it is done. South Africa shows that is true. South Africa shows we can change, that we can choose a world defined not by our differences, but by our common hopes. We can choose a world defined not by conflict, but by peace and justice and opportunity.“
— Barack Obama
„It is that spirit, that innate longing for justice and equality, for freedom and solidarity -- that’s the spirit that can light the way forward. It's in you.“
— Barack Obama
„We, the disinherited of this land, we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality.“
— Jr.
„How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.“
— Jr.
„I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.“
— Rosa Parks
„Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.“
— Malcolm X