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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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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Mandela
Prisoner 46664
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To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.
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Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.
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Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
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It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.
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There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
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I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
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It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.
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There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.
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In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
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Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child.
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When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.
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If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.
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The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.
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I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school.
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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
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I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.
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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
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On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.
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We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
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In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.
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