About Nelson Mandela
1918 – 2013
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and statesman who served as President of South Africa. Imprisoned for 27 years, he emerged to lead his country toward reconciliation and democracy.
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
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“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
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“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.”
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“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.”
“Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively.”
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”