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Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes
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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The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?
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Times change, we need to change as well.
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It only seems impossible until it's done.
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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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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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I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.
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My family is very large. 42 million.
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I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.
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I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.
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When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.
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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
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It's in your hands to make the world a better place.
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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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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.
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Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
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