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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
- 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.
- Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
- Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
- There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
- There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- 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.
- 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.
- There is no such thing as part freedom.
- There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
- We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
- 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.
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