Maya AngelouEvery person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.
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Nelson Mandela said: “Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.” He believed that every person in South Africa was fighting for their freedom, even if they did not agree with his views. For example, he once criticized the governor of South Africa because he was not fighting for freedom. The governor, in turn, said that Mandela was fighting for an ideology that he did not believe in.
Mandela responded by saying, “You are fighting against me, not for me.” He believed that all people should be free to choose what they want to believe and do. It is wrong to say that someone is fighting for something they do not believe in or tries to deny freedom when it is clear that they are simply trying to make their own choices about how they live their lives.
Source: The Heart Of A Woman
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