Racism is a blight on the human conscience.
NELSON MANDELAThe 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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Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.
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Know your enemy – and learn about his favorite sport.
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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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The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
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Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.
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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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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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You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
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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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Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.
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Hope is a powerful weapon, and no one power on earth can deprive you of.
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No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.
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Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.
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The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
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