It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.
NELSON MANDELAMay your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.
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Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.
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Freedom can never be taken for granted.
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There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.
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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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Racism is a blight on the human conscience.
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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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Education is the great engine of personal development.
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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.
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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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I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
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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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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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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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The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
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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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We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
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Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
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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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Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.
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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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The time is always right to do right.
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It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
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If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important – and you do that by being genuine and humble.
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Nothing is black or white.
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Where you stand depends on where you sit.
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