As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
NELSON MANDELAYou mustn’t compromise your principles, but you mustn’t humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.
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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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You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.
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As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.
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Great anger and violence can never build a nation.
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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
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Where you stand depends on where you sit.
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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is inspiring others to move beyond it.
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We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.
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Nothing is black or white.
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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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Lead from the back – and let others believe they are in front.
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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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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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