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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
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Former President Of South Africa
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Political Prisoner
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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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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If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings.... What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.
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A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.
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Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation
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I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
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The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.
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Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
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By ancestry, I was born to rule.
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If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.
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I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.
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My son has died of AIDS.
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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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Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
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A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.
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Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.
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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
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I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.
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I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.
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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
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