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I'm a Christian. I'm a South African. I'm an Afrikaner. I'm a lawyer. I love my country, and I think that this country has a great future. In that sense of the word, I`m a practical idealist.

— F. W. de Klerk

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We cannot build the future on injustice.

We're not doing what we do because of sanctions. We're doing what we do because we believe it is right.

I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.

Here at the crossroads of our history, we need to turn our backs on the past.

If we dwell on real or imagined sins of the past, we shall never be able to find one another in the present, nor shall we be able to work together on building the future.

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