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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.
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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.

  • After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  • As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

  • As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  • During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. 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 it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

  • Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  • 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.

  • If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  • A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

  • I learned that courage was not the abscence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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

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

  • Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  • Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

  • 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.

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

  • True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

  • Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

  • There is no such thing as part freedom.

  • 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.

  • And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

  • We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

  • 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.

  • There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.


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