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I stand by it. If it means going back to jail, I'll go, but I'm not going to deny my membership of these organisations.

— Govan Mbeki

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You can say what you like but your words have no effect because the wires are not connected to an exchange.

I was open about my membership, as I was open about it at the trial in Rivonia.

The peasants ... had demonstrated to the movement in practice what it had always preached in theory, namely, impoverished peasantry, many of them semi-proletarians, constituted a revolutionary force of immense potential, once organised.

I was answering the questions that were put to me. If anyone says that I should have said no, then one is suggesting that I should have told lies, and I was not going to tell lies.

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