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Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela
Age: 95 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 18
Died: 2013
Died: December 5
Autobiographer
Former President Of South Africa
Lawyer
Political Activist
Political Prisoner
Politician
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Mandela
Prisoner 46664
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The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.
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I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.
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No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity
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Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children
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The truth is we are not yet free we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.
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Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
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We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.
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Living isn't just about doing for yourself,but what you do for others as well.
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Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
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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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Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted he was lighthearted, I was serious.
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There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side
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The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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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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Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
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Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.
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Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.
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Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
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