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I came to accept

"I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs" ~ Nelson Mandela from an unpublished autobiographical manuscript, written on Robben Island, 1975‪

"I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs" ~ Nelson Mandela from an unpublished autobiographical manuscript, written on Robben Island, 1975‪
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