Nelson Mandela Quotes About Inspiring
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One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
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Nothing is black or white.
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
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Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.
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Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
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I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
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Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
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Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.
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Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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It only seems impossible until it's done.
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
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Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.
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You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
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To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.
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I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
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I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
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We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
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Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
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Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
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I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.
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Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
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Quitting is leading too.
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Nelson Mandela
- Born: July 18, 1918
- Died: December 5, 2013
- Occupation: Former President of South Africa
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