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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“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning.”
“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”
“A Nobel Peace Prize would help me to begin this campaign for girls' education.”
“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”