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Neville Alexander Quotes

1936–2012 South Africa

Neville Edward Alexander OLS (22 October, 1936 – 27 August, 2012) was a proponent of a multilingual South Africa and a former revolutionary who spent ten years on Robben Island as a fellow prisoner of Nelson Mandela.

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To give your full attention to your interlocutor, and really take notice of what people are saying, listen to them carefully.

He always made the point, if they say that you must run, insist on walking. If they say you must walk fast, insist on walking slowly.

Describing Mandela's approach to discussion and political conviction.

I was impressed mainly by the warmth and the genuine interest, which was a feature that, subsequently I discovered, is very much part of the man.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Neville Alexander (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.