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You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela
Age: 95 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 18
Died: 2013
Died: December 5
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Former President Of South Africa
Lawyer
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Political Prisoner
Politician
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Mandela
Prisoner 46664
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The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.
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AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.
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A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.
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Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us.
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