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Nelson Mandela

Society
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
4.7 · 50 votes · 23 reads
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Society
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
4.7 · 8 votes · 46 reads
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Society
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
4.1 · 54 votes · 156 reads
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Art and Culture
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
4.6 · 40 votes · 112 reads
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Defects
Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
3.7 · 39 votes · 11 reads
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Nature
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
4.6 · 31 votes · 37 reads
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Countries
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
4.4 · 45 votes · 53 reads
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Time
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
4.7 · 60 votes · 162 reads
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Society
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress o
3.1 · 37 votes · 195 reads
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Nature
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
3.2 · 63 votes · 70 reads
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Society
The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
4.8 · 44 votes · 51 reads
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Countries
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
4.5 · 39 votes · 199 reads
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Society
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.
4.9 · 18 votes · 164 reads
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Society
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
3.2 · 43 votes · 167 reads
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Government and Politics
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
5.0 · 7 votes · 108 reads
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Time
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
4.7 · 39 votes · 71 reads
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Society
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.
3.6 · 25 votes · 151 reads
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Nature
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.
4.9 · 35 votes · 134 reads
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Society
There is no such thing as part freedom.
4.4 · 18 votes · 50 reads
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Government and Politics
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
4.6 · 13 votes · 83 reads
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Society
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
4.3 · 21 votes · 31 reads
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Society
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
4.2 · 18 votes · 105 reads
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Government and Politics
Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
3.3 · 14 votes · 179 reads
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Society
We can't afford to be killing one another.
3.4 · 56 votes · 29 reads
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Time
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
3.9 · 38 votes · 173 reads
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Time
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
4.3 · 35 votes · 183 reads
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Virtues
Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.
3.7 · 16 votes · 25 reads
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Virtues
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
3.4 · 61 votes · 186 reads
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Society
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
3.0 · 61 votes · 128 reads
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Art and Culture
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
5.0 · 30 votes · 16 reads
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Thought and Reason
You know, you can only lead them from behind.
3.1 · 18 votes · 126 reads
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