«مرگ اگر مرد است، آید پیش من / تا کشم خوش در کنارش تنگتنگ / من از او جانی برم بی رنگ و بو / او ز من دلقی ستاند رنگرنگ» مولوی
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«مرگ اگر مرد است، آید پیش من
تا کشم خوش در کنارش تنگتنگ
من از او جانی برم بی رنگ و بو
او ز من دلقی ستاند رنگرنگ» مولوی
“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.”
~Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
