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The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

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
Mandela
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I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
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For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
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The truth is we are not yet free we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.
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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
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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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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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