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If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.

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
Mandela
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I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
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Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.
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Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.
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Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
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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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It always seems impossible until its done.
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