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Wednesday, 02 May 2007

Day 71

Mandela, N.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact upon the way people live or die.

Speech at the International AIDS conference, Durban, July 2000.

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