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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
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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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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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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
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Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.
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Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.
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Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors
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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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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
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I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.
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Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.
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Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
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Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.
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To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.
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Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
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I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.
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If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
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When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
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Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes
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In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.
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The UN took a strong stand against apartheid and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians...
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