And I get so upset when I hear that, because are you saying: Poor people only want a roof over their heads and want food? That poor people are not interested in beauty and rights and fairness and justice?
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Albie Sachs
Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
South Africa
Politics and public life
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The one is, to me, the question of conscience is number one. It comes before food. You can survive on almost anything, but your dignity depends on your conscience.
I think of two great personalities who were locked up in the prison where we’ve now built the Constitutional Court: Gandhi and Mandela.
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