It always seems impossible until its
done.
Nelson Mandela
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Education, Change
Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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Time , Realize, Forever
We must use time wisely and forever
realize that the time is always ripe to do
right.
Nelson Mandela
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Wisdom, Good, Heart
A good head and a good heart are always
a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
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Great, Climbing, Hill
After climbing a great hill, one only finds
that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
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Leadership , Appreciate , Lead
It is better to lead from behind and to put
others in front, especially when you
celebrate victory when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is
danger. Then people will appreciate your
leadership.
Nelson Mandela
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Courage, Fear , Afraid
I learned that courage was not the
absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not
feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
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Freedom, Chains, Free
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.
Nelson Mandela
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Freedom, Death, Easy
There is no easy walk to freedom
anywhere, and many of us will have to
pass through the valley of the shadow of
death again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela
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Poverty , Injustice , Rest
As long as poverty, injustice and gross
inequality persist in our world, none of us
can truly rest.
Nelson Mandela
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Wisdom, Heart, Language
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.
Nelson Mandela
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Peace , Work, Enemy
If you want to make peace with your
enemy, you have to work with your
enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
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Money, Success, Freedom
Money won't create success, the freedom
to make it will.
Nelson Mandela
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Motivational , Life , Passion
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.
Nelson Mandela
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Education, Challenges, Face
Without education, your children can
never really meet the challenges they will
face. So it's very important to give
children education and explain that they
should play a role for their country.
Nelson Mandela
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Peace , Work, Water
Let there be work, bread, water and salt
for all.
Nelson Mandela
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Deny, Rights , Challenge
To deny people their human rights is to
challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela
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Peace , Society , Progress
People respond in accordance to how
you relate to them. If you approach them
on the basis of violence, that's how
they'll react. But if you say, 'We want
peace, we want stability,' we can then do
a lot of things that will contribute
towards the progress of our society.
Nelson Mandela
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Freedom, Rich, Powerful
Where globalization means, as it so often
does, that the rich and powerful now
have new means to further enrich and
empower themselves at the cost of the
poorer and weaker, we have a
responsibility to protest in the name of
universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
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Peace , Government , Savage
There are many people who feel that it is
useless and futile to continue talking
about peace and non-violence against a
government whose only reply is savage
attacks on an unarmed and defenceless
people.
Nelson Mandela
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Dying, Blood, Leaders
In countries where innocent people are
dying, the leaders are following their
blood rather than their brains.
Nelson Mandela
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Poverty , Suffering, Gender
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our
people from the continuing bondage of
poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender
and other discrimination.
Nelson Mandela
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Peace , Africa , Dream
I dream of an Africa which is in peace
with itself.
Nelson Mandela
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Borders, Israel , Within
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if
Arab states do not recognize Israel,
within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela
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Education, Culture, Ideas
The education I received was a British
education, in which British ideas, British
culture, British institutions, were
automatically assumed to be superior.
There was no such thing as African
culture.
Nelson Mandela
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Poor, Likely
If you are poor, you are not likely to live
long.
Nelson Mandela
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