You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
NELSON MANDELAOvercoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
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We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.
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Great anger and violence can never build a nation.
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Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
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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.
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Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace.
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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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An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy.
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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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Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.
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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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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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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 can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.
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