No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
NELSON MANDELAThere is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.
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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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Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.
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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is inspiring others to move beyond it.
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No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
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Blaming things on the past does not make them better.
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Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
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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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Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.
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A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones.
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You mustn’t compromise your principles, but you mustn’t humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.
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Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.
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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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