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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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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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Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes
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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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In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.
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Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
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I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.
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Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
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History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
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I would like to be remembered not as anyone unique or special, but as part of a great team in this country that has struggled for many years, for decades and even centuries. The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.
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The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom
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