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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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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
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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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I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.
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Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.
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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 power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
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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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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress
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