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Nelson-mandela

Nelson Mandela
(South African Statesman)

Date of Birth:: 18 July 1918
Nationality:: South African
Quote count:: 159
Times favorited:: 159

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela IPA:

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Nelson Mandela

“As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”

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Nelson Mandela

“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a”

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Nelson Mandela

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

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Nelson Mandela

“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?”

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Nelson Mandela

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

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Nelson Mandela

“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man”

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Nelson Mandela

“I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.”

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Nelson Mandela

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”

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Nelson Mandela

“The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.”

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Nelson Mandela

“Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.”

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