The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
NELSON MANDELAThere is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
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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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No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity.
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One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
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As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
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Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
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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.
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You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.
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Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
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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 like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
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Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.
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Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.
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Nothing is black or white.
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.
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It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
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Racism is a blight on the human conscience.
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Know your enemy – and learn about his favorite sport.
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One of the most difficult things is not to change society – but to change yourself.
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The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.
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The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
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An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy.
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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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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
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A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.
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