Nelson Mandela Quotes

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

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We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

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President Clinton, as well as the first lady, Hillary, they have the correct instincts on the major international questions facing the world today, ... For that reason, I hold him ... in high respect.

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As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

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truly non-racist and non-sexist democracy.

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call for a partnership of Africa and the United States, developing and developed countries to bring about a transfer of resources.

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How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.

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I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

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I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

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Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

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We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

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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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If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

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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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I looked into the vast dome of blue emptiness that stretched out above me in all directions and the illusion was still there, the size and speed, and what information they were sending to mother earth.

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. African music is often about the aspirations of the African.

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South Africa is moving in the right direction, ... We should have confidence that there are great days ahead.

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Your collective wisdom and support was not lost on FIFA.

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One of the few advantages of prison life is that one has time to read. This opened our minds and forced us to re-examine some of our views.

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