Nelson Mandela Quotes - Famous Quotes by Nelson Mandela
Born: 1918-07-18
Died: 0000-00-00
Nelson Mandela Biography
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.
- Nelson Mandela
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
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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.
- Nelson Mandela
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I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
- Nelson Mandela
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
- Nelson Mandela
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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.
- Nelson Mandela
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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
- Nelson Mandela
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Nelson Mandela
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Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
- Nelson Mandela
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
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