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Quotes by Nelson Mandela
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
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.
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.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
It always seems impossible until its done.
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.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
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.
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.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
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.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
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 of our society.
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
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