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Nelson Mandela
South African
Statesman
Born:
Jul 18
,
1918
Died:
Dec 5
,
2013
Freedom
Life
Me
People
Will
You
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela
Impossible
Seems
Until
Always
Done
Relatable
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Man
Courage
Fear
Triumph
Absence
He
Feel
Over
Over It
Learned
Does
Brave
Brave Man
Afraid
Who
Conquers
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Soul
Society
Way
Revelation
Than
Children
Which
Treats
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
Wisdom
Good
Heart
Good Heart
Head
Combination
Always
Formidable
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela
Work
Water
Salt
Bread
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela
Success
Freedom
Money
Will
Make
Create
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela
Rights
Humanity
People
Challenge
Very
Deny
Human
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.
Nelson Mandela
Leadership
You
Celebrate
People
Better
Victory
Will
Nice
Others
Danger
Take
Lead
Put
Occur
Line
Front
Front Line
Behind
Then
Your
Nice Things
Things
Appreciate
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
Motivational
Life
You
Passion
Living
Settling
Small
Than
Capable
Less
Found
Playing
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Nelson Mandela
Injustice
World
Rest
Long
Poverty
Our
Our World
Inequality
None
Truly
Persist
Us
Gross
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
Wisdom
You
Man
Heart
Language
He
Head
Talk
Him
Understands
His
Goes
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela
Good
You
Debate
Stronger
Leader
Arrogant
Other
Good Leader
Side
Thoroughly
Frankly
Must
Superficial
Emerge
He
Idea
Thus
Knowing
End
Closer
Engage
Uninformed
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
Freedom
Free
Live
Others
Way
Respects
Cast
Merely
Off
Chains
Enhances
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.
Nelson Mandela
Death
Freedom
Walk
Will
Before
Our
Valley
Easy
Shadow
Through
Reach
Pass
Mountaintop
Anywhere
Again
Us
Many
Desires
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom
Responsibility
Rich
Enrich
Further
Weaker
Cost
Powerful
New
Name
Empower
Globalization
Protest
Does
Often
Where
Themselves
Poorer
Means
Now
Universal
Forget the past.
Nelson Mandela
Past
Forget
Forget The Past
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Nelson Mandela
Hope
Future
Suffering
Compassion
Other
Our
Learnt
How
Human
Common
Human Beings
Pity
Turn
Us
Who
Beings
Binds
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
Nelson Mandela
Small Things
Simple
Walk
Prison
Control
Appreciates
Has-Been
Silent
Able
Small
Simple Act
Remain
Take
Been
Person
Shop
Going
Whenever
Being
After
Wants
Newspaper
Act
Speaking
Choosing
Things
Buying
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela
Beautiful
History
Experience
Oppression
Will
Shall
Never
Another
Again
Land
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
Work
You
Peace
Enemy
Partner
He
Make
Becomes
Want
Then
Your
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson Mandela
Suffering
People
Liberate
Gender
Poverty
Other
Our
Our People
Pledge
Ourselves
Continuing
Discrimination
Deprivation
Bondage
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.
Nelson Mandela
Beautiful
Dreams
Forgiveness
Goodness
South Africa
About
Could
Lead
Roads
Named
Also
Goal
South
Africa
Two
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
You
Yourself
Nothing
Ways
Find
Unchanged
Remains
Like
Altered
Returning
Place
Which
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson Mandela
People
Innocent
Innocent People
Following
Rather
Leaders
Countries
Brains
Blood
Than
Where
Dying
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
Nelson Mandela
Education
Challenges
Will
Face
Country
Important
Meet
Give
Never
Without
Very
Role
Children
Explain
Really
Should
Your
Play
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
Nelson Mandela
You
Peace
People
Progress
Will
Society
Relate
Approach
Our
Say
Respond
Towards
React
How
Lot
Accordance
Contribute
Stability
Want
Them
Then
Things
Violence
Basis
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