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Nelson Mandela
July 18, 1918 -
Nationality: South African
Category: Statesman
Subcategory: South African Statesman

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.

   

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.

   

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.

    Topics: Courage

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

   

It always seems impossible until its done.

   

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

   

There is no such thing as part freedom.

   

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

   

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

   

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

   

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

   

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

   

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

   

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?

   

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

   

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

   

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

   

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

   

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

   

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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