Nelson Mandela

(265 votes)   A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela
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(256 votes)   After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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(355 votes)   And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(80 votes)   As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: 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.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(142 votes)   As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(346 votes)   As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(48 votes)   Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

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(41 votes)   Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

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(454 votes)   Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president...

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(62 votes)   Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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(97 votes)   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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(353 votes)   How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.

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South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(36 votes)   I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

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(65 votes)   I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

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(38 votes)   I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

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