May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
NELSON MANDELAYou will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.
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One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
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The time is always right to do right.
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Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.
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Where you stand depends on where you sit.
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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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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
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We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
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Racism is a blight on the human conscience.
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Hope is a powerful weapon, and no one power on earth can deprive you of.
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One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is inspiring others to move beyond it.
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There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires.
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The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.
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Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.
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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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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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History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
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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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There is no future without forgiveness.
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Blaming things on the past does not make them better.
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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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Freedom can never be taken for granted.
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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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It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
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