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Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.

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
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Political Prisoner
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy.
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Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
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Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.
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If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
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I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
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History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
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We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well.
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No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
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If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
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Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter
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Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.
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Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.
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I feel like a young man of 15.
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I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.
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The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.
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I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.
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To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.
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I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets a tax incentive, provided the charity is registered in terms of the law.
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As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.
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