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“It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
Source: Statement from the dock at the Rivonia Trial, Pretoria, 20 April 1964
Context Closing his three-hour statement as he and other ANC leaders faced a possible death sentence for sabotage; they were sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1964.
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