Nelson Mandela Quotes - Page 14

• No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

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  Teacher, School, Names

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• I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

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  Long Walks, White, Black

  Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964

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• The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

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  Real, Deeds, Spoken Word

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2016

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• I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

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  Men, Leader, Ordinary

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

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  Inspiring, Way, Return

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• That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, but never the less, sometimes he fails to live up to expectations.

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  Men, Expectations, Weakness

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• We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.

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  Voice, Victory, Christ

  Nelson Mandela's Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference, db.nelsonmandela.org. April 3, 1994.

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• Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank.

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  Israel, Lebanon, Height

  "Mandela bears message of peace in first visit to Israel" by Suzanne Belling, jweekly.com, October 22, 1999.

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• We forgive but not forgotten

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forgotten

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• Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

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  Perseverance, Commitment, Needs

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.

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  Achievement, Church, Missionary

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

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  Compromise, Ifs

  Twitter post from Apr 29, 2016

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• You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

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  Country, Desire, Trying

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• By ancestry, I was born to rule.

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  Ancestry, Born

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. 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. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

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  Taken, Journey, Finals

  Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa (2017). “Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

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  Soccer, People, Planets

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• I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

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  Helping, Notes, Protest

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• It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

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  Spotlight, Figures, Duty

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• Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

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  Marine, Whales, Land

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• There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

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  Inspiring, Iron Will, Skills

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• The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

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  Eye, Imagination, Vision

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• Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

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  Sports, Powerful, Government

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

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  Believe, People, Goodness

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 09, 2014

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• The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

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  Causes, Communism, Mankind

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• We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.

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  Moving, Past, Forgiving

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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