I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just a…

Nelson Mandela
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I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. ✨ Nelson Mandela (2011). Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations, p.158, Pan Macmillan
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