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The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.
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
Prisoner 46664
Madiba
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Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.
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The death sentence is a barbaric act.
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To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
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There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
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Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
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Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.
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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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Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.
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The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
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Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
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We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.
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The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.
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I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.
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In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
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