| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37675 |
| QUOTATION: | Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short- term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Nelson Mandela (b. 1918), South African political leader. Statement, April-May 1964, to the court in the Rivonia trial, South Africa. quoted in Fatima Meer, Higher than Hope, pt. 4, ch. 24 (1988-1990). |
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