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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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”
“Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe.”
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”