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My family is very large. 42 million.
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
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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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There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.
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We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.
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I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.
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The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.
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I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.
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People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.
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It only seems impossible until it's done.
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Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.
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The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.
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Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.
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One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
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