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50 Former President of South Africa Quotes
50 Former President of South Africa Quotes
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
Courage
Triumph
Conquer
Absence
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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
Leadership
Danger
Celebrate
Victory
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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
Language
Head
Heart
Understand
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
Climbing
Hill
After
Only
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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
Freedom
Shadow
Death
Mountaintop
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Nelson Mandela
Money
Success
Freedom
Create
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Nelson Mandela
Courage
Fear
Forgive
Peace
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Nelson Mandela
Harmony
Opportunity
Achieve
Society
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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson Mandela
Fear
Happiness
Resources
Poor
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
Nelson Mandela
Persuade
People
Idea
Wise
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Nelson Mandela
Poor
Live
Long
Likely
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Change
ChangeTheWorld
Education
Most
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela
Always
Done
Impossible
Seems
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
Always
Combination
Formidable
Good
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
Altered
Find
Like
Nothing
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Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Nelson Mandela
Cannot
Contracts
Enter
Free
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I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
Africa
Dream
IDream
Itself
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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela
Africa
Combine
Continent
Deserts
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela
Africa
America
Asia
Ask
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
Becomes
Enemy
He
Make
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When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela
Boiling
Foolish
Heat
Off
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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela
Bread
Salt
Water
Work
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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.
Nelson Mandela
Active
Always
Because
Colonial
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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela
Achievement
Freedom
Glorious
Human
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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.
Nelson Mandela
Cast
Chains
Enhances
Free
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I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela
Arab
Borders
Cannot
Conceive
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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.
Nelson Mandela
About
Africa
Also
Beautiful
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Nelson Mandela
Become
Country
First
Go
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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela
Again
Another
Beautiful
Experience
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Nelson Mandela
Children
Revelation
Society
Soul
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There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom
Part
Thing
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela
Barbaric
Because
Black
Detest
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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.
Nelson Mandela
Capable
Found
Less
Life
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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?
Nelson Mandela
Anybody
Because
Commitment
Does
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I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
Nelson Mandela
African
Always
First
FirstPlace
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I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
Nelson Mandela
Been
Both
East
Influenced
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Nelson Mandela
Myself
Other
Particular
Should
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I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson Mandela
Before
Here
Humble
People
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I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
Nelson Mandela
Allow
Being
Cabinet
Choose
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I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Nelson Mandela
Anything
Knowing
Me
Morning
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Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
Nelson Mandela
Admit
ICan
Mistake
Politicians
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Nelson Mandela
Ancestry
Born
IWasBorn
Rule
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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
Nelson Mandela
AIDS
Child
Give
Laughter
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Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
Nelson Mandela
Disclose
Encouraged
Example
HIV
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Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.
Nelson Mandela
Always
Appear
Because
Cancer
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AIDS
Died
Son
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I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson Mandela
Accuse
Also
Am
Ask
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There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
Nelson Mandela
Able
Africa
Been
Conquer
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If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Nelson Mandela
America
Atrocities
Committed
Country
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Nelson Mandela
Greatest
Glory
Never
Failing
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