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The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

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
Madiba
Fit
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Afraid
Longer

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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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I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.
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I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.
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By ancestry, I was born to rule.
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As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.
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We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.
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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
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Nothing is black or white.
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Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.
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South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.
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My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.
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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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No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
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We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
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Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.
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In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.
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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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My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.
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