I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.
No future without forgiveness.
Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
And every human being is precious.
Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.
The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'
"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons."
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