A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones.
NELSON MANDELAResentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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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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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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What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
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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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The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
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A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
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Where you stand depends on where you sit.
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As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
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I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
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No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
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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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There is no future without forgiveness.
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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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Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
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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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