Quotes by Long Walk To Freedom 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. Nelson Mandela long-walk-to-freedom taken humanity The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible. Nelson Mandela long-walk-to-freedom balanced authority When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Nelson Mandela long-walk-to-freedom missions prison I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. Nelson Mandela long-walk-to-freedom wells oppressed