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It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

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
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It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic young people ... I feel like a recharged battery, confident that our country can look forward to great things.
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Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.
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Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.
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There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.
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The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.
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There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
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There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.
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The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk
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If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.
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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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We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.
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Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent
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Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.
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I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
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It only seems impossible until it's done.
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The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
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Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
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The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
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I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.
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I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.
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